Youths residing in the most naxal infested areas of the district are showing their keen interest in joining the police force. Aiming to join the mainstream and to serve the society over dozens of the youths including girls residing in such pockets have cracked the JSSC examination and got selected for the post of sub-inspector in Jharkhand Police recently.
Youths whom were selected are Rupa Dey, Puja Raj, Ashish Kapardar, Dashrath Kapardar, Ishwar Dayal Munda, Ajay Kumar Mahali, Chandan Kumar Pal, Madan Kumar Mahato, Ravi Kumar, Rajendra Kumar Mahato, Inderdeo Rajwar including many others residing Kasmar, Paterwar, Mahuatand, Chatrochatti, Jageshwar, lalpaniya, Kurpaniya and other remote locations of the district.
“Ravi has not only made us proud but our village as well and the district. My son struggled hard and finally achieve the goal,” said Savita Devi, her mother.
“We congratulate Ravi, Madan Mahato and Rajendra Mahato for their achievements on behalf of our village and wish them all success in future,” said Sanjay, the village head of Mahuatand.
“We are feeling very happy, despite having adverse conditions our son Madan cracked the exam and selected,” said Tilua Devi and Dularchand Matho, who is a MGNERGA labour.
Notably, Naxal rebels are active in 18 of the 24 districts of Jharkhand and nearly 4,000 people have been killed in Naxal-related violence in the past years. Maoist insurgency which is the greatest internal security threat puts the squeeze on the economic activity of the country too. Maoism, which started off as a people’s movement, has now become a nearly Rs 2,500 crore organised extortion business in the form of ‘levy’ in the different parts of the country, sources said.
According to a home ministry report Maoists and their commanders collect a whopping 950-1000 crores Rupees as levy money from different states of India each year and if the levy collection drive is increased as informed by the Naxalites the revenue collection drive might add another 100 crores from different states.