In order to control the menace of Naxals in the State and carry out special drive against them in thirteen focus areas, Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma has demanded five battalions of CRPF from the centre. Verma was speaking during a review meeting held in New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the developmental works being carried out in the Naxal affected areas and security related issues on Friday.
The meeting was also attended by the Union Home Secretary along with the officials of Bihar, Andhra Paradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. A thorough discussion also took place during the meeting to strengthen the developmental works and security arrangements in the 35 most affected districts across the State. Out of these 35 districts, 16 are located in Jharkhand.
Verma also requested the centre to expand the postal network in left Wing Extremism districts so that financial inclusion could be expanded in the area and Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana, Mudra Yojana, Kisan Credit Card Yojana and Crop Insurance could be executed effectively in those areas.
For this the CS requested the Centre to open branches of banks in all Panchayats and also gave a proposal to make space available in each of the Panchayat buildings.
“Presently, there are only 1500 banks available for 4402 Panchayts,” said the CS. She also made the Home Minister aware of the pending proposal of opening one branch for every population of 5000.
It was also put into the mind of the Home Minister that execution on the proposal of only 8 branches is being done. The CS said that with the increase of branches, computerisation and increasing the financial limit to five lakh, financial inclusion in the remote areas will get promoted. Presently, only 458 branches of SBI are operative in the state,” said the CS.
The Chief Secretary also stressed on controlling the menace of Naxalism by strengthening mobile network in the state along with opening up new Radio stations and TV Stations.
The Home Minister was also made aware about the fact that there was not Radio Station in Santhal Pargana area. With the establishment of Radio Station people will get local languages and it will also encourage participation of local culture and it will also prevent people negative propaganda spread by naxals.
According to CS despite the fact that Ranchi Radio Station has a status of regional transmission centre but it does not operate accordingly. She requested the centre o make it work according to its status.