Image for representation only. File photoJamshedpur: A full-fledged company of CRPF's women battalion will be deployed in Jharkhand in the next ten days to carry out anti-naxal operations, CRPF Director General K Durga Prasad said today.
Currently, a women battalion of the CRPF is undergoing training at Salboni in West Bengal and one company of this battalion will be deployed in Ranchi in the next ten days, said Prasad, who laid the foundation of a barrack and 317 quarters for jawans of Rapid Action Force of the 106 battalion at Sundernagar on the outskirt of Jamshedpur.
The CRPF company will be engaged in operations against Left wing extremism as well as anti-national forces in Jharkhand, Prasad told newsmen.
To a query about the prevailing activists of CPI (Maoists), the DG CRPF said the influence of naxals have drastically come down across the country, including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra after continuous operations against them.
"We have carried out nine inter-state anti-naxal operations in naxal-affected states including Bihar, Chhattisgarh while one such operation is underway today," he said claiming that altogether ten naxal camps were demolished and a huge cache of arms and ammunition seized.
A top rank Maoist leader Ashish Yadav, who was a member of Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee of the ultra group, was killed in an encounter with the security forces in Gumla district last month, he said, adding that altogether 11 encounters had taken place between the Maoists and security forces.
To develop interaction with villagers as well as to make them self-reliant, CRPF has set up a poultry farm with 200 chicks for villagers near Gaya a couple of months ago and the number of chickens has doubled now, he said.
(With agency inputs)
