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The Government has told Parliament that no district in Chhattisgarh or any other State is currently Left Wing Extremism affected.
38 districts, of which 13 are in Chhattisgarh, are now categorised as 'Legacy and Thrust' districts - no longer LWE affected but requiring continued security and development support to prevent relapse.
The National Policy and Action Plan to address LWE was approved in 2015, adopting a whole-of-government approach combining security measures, development interventions and community rights.
In Chhattisgarh, 4,314 km of road has been constructed under two LWE-specific schemes - the Road Requirement Plan and the Road Connectivity Project for LWE Affected Areas.
Police and Public Order remain State subjects under the Seventh Schedule, with the Centre supplementing State efforts.
Left Wing Extremism took root in a specific kind of territory - forested, tribal-majority districts of central and eastern India where the State's civilian presence was thinnest and grievances over land, forest produce and displacement were sharpest. That geography explains why a purely military response repeatedly failed: security forces could clear an area, but if no road, school, bank or mobile tower followed, the vacuum simply refilled. The National Policy and Action Plan of 2015 institutionalised the opposite premise, pairing security measures with development interventions and, crucially, with ensuring the rights and entitlements of local communities - which is why Forest Rights Act implementation and minor forest produce pricing are part of LWE policy rather than separate tribal welfare matters. Roads are the clearest illustration of why infrastructure is a security instrument in this context: a road lets security forces move and be resupplied, but it also lets a teacher reach a school, a farmer reach a market and an ambulance reach a village, and it is the second set of effects that makes the first durable. The 'Legacy and Thrust' category reflects the same reasoning applied to withdrawal - a district that is no longer violent still receives support, because the historical pattern of this insurgency has been relapse into areas from which pressure was lifted too early.
Simple Analogy: Clearing an area is like draining water from a low field - unless you raise the ground, it fills again with the next rain.
GS Paper 3 > Internal Security: Linkages between Development and Extremism, Role of External State and Non-State Actors
General Awareness > Polity and Current Affairs
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Left Wing Extremism and the development-security linkage are recurring UPSC GS-3 internal security topics.
38 districts, 13 in Chhattisgarh, no longer LWE affected but receiving continued security and development support to preclude relapse.
Approved 2015, adopting a whole-of-government approach combining security, development and community rights.
One of two LWE-specific road schemes; with RCPLWEA it delivered 4,314 km of road in Chhattisgarh.
Road Connectivity Project for LWE Affected Areas - the second dedicated road scheme.
Coordinated action across ministries and between Centre and States, rather than treating extremism as a policing problem alone.