DGP moves with team to review anti-Maoist operations in Nuapada SATURDAY, 25 AUGUST 2012 00:19 PNS.|.NUAPADA HITS: 37

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DGP moves with team to review anti-Maoist operations in Nuapada

SATURDAY, 25 AUGUST 2012 00:19

PNS.|.NUAPADA

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For the first time, a Director General of Police of the State is moving along with his team to the far-flung Maoist-infested zones.

On Thursday, Prakash Mishra airlifted at least nine top cops to Nuapada, where other six IPS officers joined them in a mind-blowing session on anti-Maoist operations. So, as many as 15 IPS officers landed in the hotbed of Red rebels which provides corridor to a tri-junction for Balangir, Kalahandi and Bargarh districts.

The mountain ranges of Gandhamardan cover an area of over 18,000 hectares of forests which is providing shelter to the Leftwing Extremists. The ultras are moving from Gandhamardan to Balangir, Bargarh, Nuapada and Kalahandi, and these operatives are mostly from Chhattisgarh with local rebels being few, said a police source.

The DGO landed here in the company of Director of Intelligence Abhya, IG of Operations Arun Sarangi, IG of Modernisation Debasis Panigrahi, IG of Personnel Sanjeeb Panda, CRPF IG SN Sabat, Odisha Police Housing Corporation CMD Satyajit Mohanty, DIG of Operations Saumendra Priyadarshi and SIW DIG Dhirendra S Kutey.

DIG Northern Range Sanjay Kumar, DIG South West Range S Dev Datta Singh, Nuapada SP Umashankar Dash, Balangir SP R Prakash, Bargarh SP Anoop Krishna and Kalahandi SP K Safeen Ahmed attended the meeting.

Earlier, DGP.Mishra had gone to Malkangiri to oversee the operations which led to a successful attack on the Maoists resulting in the killing of one of their area commanders.

The morale of the police seems to be high and the SPs are upbeat over the approach of the new DGP.

Now, Nuapada has turned out to be the most important corridor for the Maoists as more numbers of the ultras are entering Odisha from the neighbouring Chhattisgarh with their total number estimated at more than 60 in Nuapada alone, said the sources. They have turned the Sunabeda jungles into the operation zone of the Nuapada Division of the CPI(Maoist).

While CRPF jawans are in place in Nuapada, action-oriented operations are yet to take place as the earlier regime was disinterested for any such tough action, revealed a senior cop. Now, CRPF DG K Vijaya Kumar, after visiting the State, has talked to the jawans at length and it has provided them a lot of enthusiasm, said the sources.