State Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta on Sunday said the Centre considers just Balaghat as suffering from left extremism, although the State government has evidence to suggest that as many as nine districts in the State is affected by the menace.
“We have evidence of Naxal movement in nine districts of the State, but the Centre considers only Balaghat as naxalite-affected,” the Home Minister told reporters. He said the other districts where Naxal movement was noticed are Sidhi, Singrauli, Rewa, Shahdol, Umaria, Anuppur, Mandla and Dindori.
The State submitted evidence of Naxal movement in these eight districts to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a meeting on the Naxal issue, but the Centre is not providing resources to fight extremists, Gupta said.
The State government is controlling the Naxal activities in these districts on its own, he said. To a question, Gupta said earlier the Centre used to provide `100 crore every year for modernisation of police force but now the budget is reduced to just Rs 26 crore because of which the State government is finding it difficult to modernize the police force.
Referring to reports of crime rate increasing in MP, he said that more crimes were being reported. In Madhya Pradesh police entertains complaints of the victims and also register cases promptly.