MANGALURU: Almost 20 crore spent, three,000 team of workers including officers inducted, 1.70 lakh bullets fired – this is the funding of the Karnataka govt at the Anti Naxal Force (ANF) since 2010. However, the ANF hasn’t caught a unmarried Naxal alive within the last seven years. On the contrary, in 2011, it killed one of its personal jawan believing him to be a naxal.
TOI had sought solutions from the ANF underneath RTI Act and the response won leaves an impression that team of workers within the ANF has been on a long paid vacation. Except media studies of a couple of naxal sightings and the subsequent combing operations, not anything concrete turns out to have been completed via the unit within the contemporary past.
Since 2010, the federal government inducted 1,127 officers of the rank of ASI and above while it employed 1.540 head constables and constables. During the mentioned length, there were 25 followers and two ministerial team of workers. However, of these, the ANF has now relieved 2,263 team of workers leaving the unit with 432 contributors. They are paid an enhanced rate of particular allowance/consolidated particular allowance of Rs 1,000 – Rs 8,000 per head. The total amount spent at the ANF since 2010 is pegged at a whopping Rs 19,74,22,979. In addition, every member will get a day by day food allowance of Rs 130.
According to resources within the ANF, there are only 5 suspected naxals currently working within the state – Vikas Gowda, B G Krishnamurthy, Mundagaru Latha, Vanajakshi and Angadi Pradeep. Their hideout is both now not recognized or now not being published. Giving an view, a source within the police division mentioned Gowda and Krishnamurthy have shifted their based to Kerala long ago.
Noor Zulfikar aka Sridhar, a former top naxal leader, mentioned naxals firmly believes Karnataka have shifted their base.
“There are rarely any naxals in Karnataka. They have consciously shifted their activities to Wayand and Karnataka-Kerala-TamilNadu tri-junction so that every one 3 factions from the 3 states come in combination and post a show of strength. That is a strategic transfer, however they'll now not be successful,” Noor Sridhar, who is it seems that striving to reunite the fragmented alternate political events after joining the mainstream of the society in December 2014, advised TOI.
According to him, many naxals have realised that their reason for social justice can't be served via fighting from jungles and hence many have surrendered. As many as 13 naxals within the state have surrendered since 2010.
Interestingly, the ANF, which hadn’t heard of naxal movement in Dakshina Kannada – thought to be to be a hub – since 2012, introduced a combing operation within the first week of January mentioning the presence of three suspected naxals at Shiradi in Uppinangady. However, no naxal was once found all over the operation.
In June last 12 months, 3 suspected naxals, Kanyakumari, Suma, and Shivu, surrendered prior to the Chikkamagaluru police. After this incident - believed to be the last give up till date – Ok Annamalai, Chikkamagaluru SP, went on document to mention contemporary recruitment to naxalism within the state have been stopped.
B M Lakshmi Prasad, superintendent of police, ANF, Karkala, then again, justified the funding at the unit. “It is only on account of our presence that the naxal movement within the state has reduced. They will come again robust if the ANF is weakened,” he mentioned.
According to an authentic within the ANF, there are 14 ANF camps across the state and the 15th one is being setup at Gundlupet in Chamarajnagar. A suggestion has additionally been sent to the federal government to set up a camp in both Belthangady or Sullia.
It is also recalled that the ANF had killed one of its constable, Mahadev Mane, at the intervening evening of October 8 and October nine, 2011. Suspecting the presence of naxals all over a combing operation, the men began indiscriminate firing and a bullet ricocheted into Mane killing him at the spot in Manjal forest near Belthangady.
TOI had sought solutions from the ANF underneath RTI Act and the response won leaves an impression that team of workers within the ANF has been on a long paid vacation. Except media studies of a couple of naxal sightings and the subsequent combing operations, not anything concrete turns out to have been completed via the unit within the contemporary past.
Since 2010, the federal government inducted 1,127 officers of the rank of ASI and above while it employed 1.540 head constables and constables. During the mentioned length, there were 25 followers and two ministerial team of workers. However, of these, the ANF has now relieved 2,263 team of workers leaving the unit with 432 contributors. They are paid an enhanced rate of particular allowance/consolidated particular allowance of Rs 1,000 – Rs 8,000 per head. The total amount spent at the ANF since 2010 is pegged at a whopping Rs 19,74,22,979. In addition, every member will get a day by day food allowance of Rs 130.
According to resources within the ANF, there are only 5 suspected naxals currently working within the state – Vikas Gowda, B G Krishnamurthy, Mundagaru Latha, Vanajakshi and Angadi Pradeep. Their hideout is both now not recognized or now not being published. Giving an view, a source within the police division mentioned Gowda and Krishnamurthy have shifted their based to Kerala long ago.
Noor Zulfikar aka Sridhar, a former top naxal leader, mentioned naxals firmly believes Karnataka have shifted their base.
“There are rarely any naxals in Karnataka. They have consciously shifted their activities to Wayand and Karnataka-Kerala-TamilNadu tri-junction so that every one 3 factions from the 3 states come in combination and post a show of strength. That is a strategic transfer, however they'll now not be successful,” Noor Sridhar, who is it seems that striving to reunite the fragmented alternate political events after joining the mainstream of the society in December 2014, advised TOI.
According to him, many naxals have realised that their reason for social justice can't be served via fighting from jungles and hence many have surrendered. As many as 13 naxals within the state have surrendered since 2010.
Interestingly, the ANF, which hadn’t heard of naxal movement in Dakshina Kannada – thought to be to be a hub – since 2012, introduced a combing operation within the first week of January mentioning the presence of three suspected naxals at Shiradi in Uppinangady. However, no naxal was once found all over the operation.
In June last 12 months, 3 suspected naxals, Kanyakumari, Suma, and Shivu, surrendered prior to the Chikkamagaluru police. After this incident - believed to be the last give up till date – Ok Annamalai, Chikkamagaluru SP, went on document to mention contemporary recruitment to naxalism within the state have been stopped.
B M Lakshmi Prasad, superintendent of police, ANF, Karkala, then again, justified the funding at the unit. “It is only on account of our presence that the naxal movement within the state has reduced. They will come again robust if the ANF is weakened,” he mentioned.
According to an authentic within the ANF, there are 14 ANF camps across the state and the 15th one is being setup at Gundlupet in Chamarajnagar. A suggestion has additionally been sent to the federal government to set up a camp in both Belthangady or Sullia.
It is also recalled that the ANF had killed one of its constable, Mahadev Mane, at the intervening evening of October 8 and October nine, 2011. Suspecting the presence of naxals all over a combing operation, the men began indiscriminate firing and a bullet ricocheted into Mane killing him at the spot in Manjal forest near Belthangady.
Karnataka: Rs 20 crore spent, but no naxal caught alive since 2010
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