As many as 2,000 of youth of Naxal-hit areas had been selected after organising a camp by 158 CRPF battalion to go to Pune for cultural exchanges. Notably the 9th Tribal programme is going to be organised at Pune. They had been selected from most naxal hit areas of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha who went to 10 big cities for week long visit. The CRPF 158 battalion selected 70 tribal youths and sent them to Barodra, Chennai, Pune and Bengluru setting 4 teams with the help of Nehru Yuva Kendra. The commandant Manoj Kumar Gupta flagged off the team. The members of the team would get the chance to know the cultures of the places.
Before it the second commanding officer Rajesh Chouhan addressed the members of the team and said, “In the continuation of the programme the third team would go to Chennai on 24th January 2017 and the last team would go to Chennai on 4th February 2017.”
On the occasion lalita Kumari the coordinator of Nehru Yuva Kendra, Suresh Oraon of CRPF and many CRPF personnel were present.