Lok Sabha Question No. 374 (STARRED), answered on 2018-03-21
Subject: Development of Naxal/Maoist Affected Area
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: KAMLA DEVI PATLE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*374 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.03.2018

## DEVELOPMENT OF NAXAL/MAOIST AFFECTED AREA

## *374. SHRIMATI KAMLA DEVI PAATLE:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has prepared or proposes to prepare any Action Plan for the development of  naxal/maoist affected areas of the country;
- (b)        if so, the details thereof;
- (c)        the details of the amount released and utilised across the country, particularly in Chhattisgarh under the said plan/scheme during the last three years;
- (d)       whether the Government has identified certain new districts under the Integrated Action Plan(IAP);  and
- (e)       if so, the details thereof , State-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) to (e) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (e) of LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO *374 RAISED BY SHRIMATI KAMLA DEVI PAATLE, MP REGARDING DEVELOPMENT OF NAXAL/MAOIST AFFECTED AREA

(a) Yes Madam. The Government of India has a strategy and action plan to deal with the problem of Maoist insurgency with balanced and holistic multi-pronged interventions in the areas of security & development.

## (b) Detail of the interventions is placed at Annex-1.

(c)As stated above, Government of India has been assisting the State Governments to address the problem of left wing extremism through various initiatives which include supporting the States by way of  Central  Armed Forces, Helicopter support, technical  equipments, etc.  In  addition,  it  is  meeting security  related  expenditure  (SRE),  assisting  the  States  through  special  intervention  of  creation  of fortified Police Force and strengthening of Task Forces. Since rapid economic development is one of the proven strategies to reduce influence of LWE, different Ministries of Government of India have special focus in these districts.

In addition, Government of India has launched a programme of rapid transformation of such districts which  have  shown  relatively  lesser  progress  in  key  socio-economic  development  indicators.  35 districts affected by Left Wing extremism are included in this programme for which special provisions have been made as special central assistance. Detail of fund for these interventions including funds made available to Chhattisgarh  are placed at Annex-II.

(d) & (e) To provide further impetus to development of the 35 worst affected districts the Government has approved 'Special Central Assistance Scheme' to fill critical gaps related to Public Infrastructure and Services, which are of emergent nature. The Scheme has approval for a period of 03 years, i.e. from 2017-18 to 2019-20 with total outlay of Rs. 3000 Cr @ Rs. 1000 crore per annum.

In addition, these 35 districts have been included in the recently launched programme of 'Aspirational Districts.' Under this programme, Centre and State Governments would work as a team to make all concerted efforts to improve key performance indicators in these districts. Government of India has appointed  Joint  Secretary/Additional  secretary  level  officers  as  central  Prabhari    officers  in  these districts. Similarly, State Governments have appointed nodal officers for this programme. The strategy includes identification of key performance indicators, setting up of real time monitoring mechanism and convergence of Schemes of central and State Governments. List of these 35 districts is placed at Annexure-III.

## Detail of major interventions of Government of India for assisting States to counter problems of Left Wing extremists.

## Security Interventions

MHA is supporting the State Governments extensively by way of Central Armed Police Force, Helicopter support, India Reserve Battalions etc. As part of capacity building of the State Police Forces, funds  are  being  provided  under  different  schemes  including  Security  Related  Expenditure  (SRE), Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) and Special Infrastructure Scheme (SIS). Training assistance and intelligence sharing is also being carried out.

## Development related interventions

Development interventions are made through provision of resources and focused implementation of schemes of the various Ministries of the Govt. of India that supplements the State initiatives.  These  include  Centrally  Sponsored  Schemes  as  well  as  Central  Sector  Scheme.  Several important initiatives  have been undertaken for development of LWE areas.  These initiatives include:

## a) Road Requirement Plan (RRP-I)

Construction of 5,422 km roads in 34 LWE affected districts. 4,537 km roads completed.

## b) Road Connectivity Project for LWE Affected Areas (RRP-II)

Construction of 5,412 km roads envisaged in 44 LWE affected districts with estimated cost of Rs. 11,725 crore.

Sanction conveyed to States - 2467.18 km

## c) Skill development scheme in 47 LWE affected districts

47 ITIs and 68 Skill Development Centres envisaged. 15 ITIs is and 43 SDCs established.

- d) KVs11 out of 35 most LWE affected district did not have KVs.

08 new KVs sanctioned

Of these 07 KVs are functional.

03 KVs are likely to be sanctioned shortly.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas - 05 most LWE affected district did not have JNVs. 05 new JNVs sanctioned,

All of these are functional now.

- e) Mobile tower connectivity

2329 mobile towers are installed in phase-I.

4072 towers are under consideration in phase-II. Cabinet note is under circulation.

## f) Financial inclusion

Department of Financial Services: 428 new bank branches & 1045 ATMs opened in 35 most LWE affected Districts in 31 months between 01.04.2015 and 31.12.2017.

Department of Post - 1789 Post Offices in 32 most LWE affected Districts approved. 565 Post Offices already opened.

## Special central Assistance and Aspirational District programme

To provide further impetus to development of the 35 worst affected districts the Government has approved 'Special Central Assistance Scheme' to fill critical gaps related to Public Infrastructure and Services, which are of emergent nature. In addition, these 35 districts have been included in the recently  launched  programme  of  'Aspirational  Districts.'  Under  this  programme,  Centre  and  State Government would work as a team to make all concerted efforts to improve key performance indicators in these districts. Government of India has appointed Joint Secretary/Additional secretary level officers as  central  Prabhari  officers  in  these  districts.  Similarly,  State  Governments  have  appointed  nodal officers for this programme. The strategy includes identification of key performance indicators, setting up of real time monitoring mechanism and convergence of Schemes of Central and State Governments.

## Fund released to State Governments

The  Government  of  India is  assisting  States  through  different  interventions-  security related as well as development related to address problems, as per details given below:-

## 1 Special Infrastructure Scheme (SIS)

The scheme is implemented to strengthen the security apparatus and capacity building of  States  in  the  funding  Pattern:  60(Centre):40(State)  with  the  Annual  Outlay  of Rs.1048 crore (Rs.628.8 crore as Centre share) for the following:

-  Construction of 250 Fortified police Stations in three years between 2017-2020 @ Rs.2.5 crore per FPS.
-  For strengthening of SIBs/STFs in the States. Rs.2 crore per most affected LWE district per annum and Rs.1 crore per district per annum for other LWE affected districts.

Earlier there was a separate scheme of Fortified Police Stations in 10 LWE affected States for construction of 400 Fortified Police Station which was approved in June, 2010. Under the scheme 66 Police Station were constructed till May, 2014. Fortified Police  Stations  have  been  completed,  thus  taking  the  figure  of  completed  Police Stations to 386 (Rs.623.89 crore).

## 2 Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme

Under the Security Related Expenditure ( SRE ) Scheme, assistance is provided to 106 LWE affected districts in 10 States for recurring expenditure relating to operational and training needs of security forces which also include the expenditure incurred by the states for the rehabilitation of the surrendered LWE cadres etc.

The releases made as under:

Rs. 575.22 crore released between 2011-14.

Rs. 675.73 crore released between 2014-17.

Rs. 445 crore released in the year 2017-18.

## 3. Special Central Assistance

Under this scheme, there is a provision for three year period i.e. from 2017-18 to 201920 with total outlay of Rs. 3000 Cr @ Rs. 1000 crore per annum.

Rs.175 crore has been released to the States during 2017-18 for 35 most affected LWE districts @ Rs. 5 crore per district. Rs 28.57 Cr per district will be released to States in 201819.

In Chhattisgarh 16 districts are considered to be LWE affected. Of these following 8 districts are considered as most affected LWE districts:

8. Kondagaon
1. Bijapur,
2. Sukma,
3. Bastar,
4. Dantewada,
5. Kanker,
6. Narayanpur,
7. Rajnandgaon,

Rs.40 crore has been released to Chhattisgarh during 2017-18 for these 8 most affected LWE districts @ Rs. 5 crore per district to fill critical gaps related to Public Infrastructure and Services,  which  are  of  emergent  nature.  Provision  has  been  made  in  the  current  budget  to provide money to the Districts under this scheme in Financial Year 2018-19.

## 4.  Fund  released  under  Modernisation  of  Police  forces  in  States  affected  by  Left  Wing Extremism:

( InRs. Cr)

| Name of State   | 2014-15     | 2014-15     | 2015-16     | 2015-16   | 2016-17     | 2016-17   | 2017-18     | 2017-18   |
|-----------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|
| Name of State   | Allocatio n | Release d * | Allocatio n | Release d | Allocatio n | Release d | Allocatio n | Release d |
| Andhra Pradesh  | 102.81      | 54.17       | 22.68       | 32.56     | 22.68       | 41.1      | 29.87       | 21.074    |
| Bihar           | 67.70       | 49.08       | 25.62       | 26.57     | 25.62       | 19.15     | 33.73       | 2.262     |
| Chhattisgar h   | 23.82       | 37.36       | 9.01        | 14.24     | 9.01        | 1.73      | 11.87       | 0.798     |
| Jharkhand       | 22.56       | 34.52       | 8.54        | 22.44     | 8.54        | 1.64      | 11.24       | 0.756     |
| Madhya Pradesh  | 66.45       | 58.18       | 25.14       | 26.8      | 25.14       | 21.86     | 33.11       | 27.06     |
| Maharashtr a    | 115.47      | 76.65       | 43.69       | 50.88     | 43.69       | 12.8      | 57.54       | 3.858     |
| Odisha          | 38.24       | 42.92       | 14.47       | 19.46     | 14.47       | 26.22     | 19.05       | 16.558    |
| Telangana       | 0.00        | 68.13       | 16.22       | 16.32     | 16.22       | 29.4      | 21.35       | 20.404    |
| Uttar Pradesh   | 154.87      | 169.23      | 58.59       | 69.99     | 58.59       | 35.8      | 77.16       | 5.172     |
| West Bengal     | 70.84       | 47.4        | 26.80       | 35.52     | 26.80       | 12.31     | 35.3        | 47.36     |
| Total           | 662.76      | 637.64      | 250.76      | 314.78    | 250.76      | 202.01    | 330.22      | 145.302   |

## List of 35 districts which have been included in 'Aspirational District programme'

| State          | MHA35 LWE Districts   |
|----------------|-----------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh | 1. Visakhapatnam      |
| Bihar          | 2. Aurangabad         |
| Bihar          | 3. Banka              |
| Bihar          | 4. Gaya               |
| Bihar          | 5. Jamui              |
| Bihar          | 6. Muzaffarpur        |
| Bihar          | 7. Nawada             |
| Chhattisgarh   | 8. Bastar             |
| Chhattisgarh   | 9. Bijapur            |
| Chhattisgarh   | 10. Dantewada         |
| Chhattisgarh   | 11. Kanker            |
| Chhattisgarh   | 12. Kondagaon         |
| Chhattisgarh   | 13. Narayanpur        |
| Chhattisgarh   | 14. Rajnandgaon       |
| Chhattisgarh   | 15Sukma               |
| Jharkhand      | 16Latehar             |
| Jharkhand      | 17. Lohardaga         |
| Jharkhand      | 18.Palamu             |
| Jharkhand      | 19. PurbiSinghbhum    |
| Jharkhand      | 20. Ramgarh           |
| Jharkhand      | 21. Ranchi            |
| Jharkhand      | 22. Simdega           |
| Jharkhand      | 23. West Singhbhum    |
| Jharkhand      | 24. Bokaro            |
| Jharkhand      | 25. Chatra            |
| Jharkhand      | 26. Dumka             |
| Jharkhand      | 27. Garhwa            |
| Jharkhand      | 28. Girdih            |
| Jharkhand      | 29. Gumla             |
| Jharkhand      | 30. Hazaribagh        |
| Jharkhand      | 31. Khunti            |
| Maharashtra    | 32. Gadchiroli        |
| Odisha         | 33. Koraput           |
| Odisha         | 34. Malkangiri        |
| Telengana      | 35. Khammam           |
| Total          | 35                    |