Border Area Development Plan taking shape in Palamu

Border area development plan has been launched in Palamu said DGP Jharkhand D K Pandey. “We are laying security camps on border at 5 to 6 km distance,” he said.

The DGP further said the security camps so set up are being converted into Integrated Development centres. These Integrated Development Centres cover villages which come under a radius of 4 Km of these centres reminded Pandey.

Block and Circle officials here converge once in a week which just a year ago was most unthinkable reason for which was not too remote to be found then. Sources said fear of extremism kept these officials away for whom they meant for.

The DGP reiterated that such security camps have come as a big impediment to the passage of naxals here from the adjoining state Bihar.

Sources said some security camps may just look like doing nothing as naxals are themselves keeping at bay from security forces but the security camps are indicative of rule of law on land which was once a red turf.

“Naxals have been shaken on hill like Burha Pahar and on land they are on the run so where is left the ground for them now except to jump into uncertain future but if these naxals have a change of mind and heart the world still holds good for them,” added D K Pandey.

Its border is both by land and water. The in land roads, by lanes, cross country routes are the favourite passage of the naxals. By water the naxals have just one choice and that is of boat.

Palamu’s Hussainabad sub division touches Bihar by water of the Sone River. Here the modus operandi of the Bihar’s naxals is different.

Sources said the Bihar’s naxals use small skiff to reach over Palamu. No mechanized boat runs between Jharkhand’s Palamu and Bihar’s Rohtas in Sone river. All the boats are driven by mullahs and their sympathy for these naxals is timeless said sources.