
So our p-secs gained knowledge of IAS/IPS by googling! Wonderful! "nuances" of IAS/IPS?!!!!he doesn't know about the "central pool"? wah!

I would like to see empirics for the assertion of "lacks in everything else." this is a huge statement to make. and not to be made lightly. what is the evidence of this?C'garh matches AP in raising IRBs, but lacks in everything else - primarily capacities (quality and quantity) of the police force...Compensates that by raising SJ..
These kindsa reports have been floating with different numbers. I remember a toi report under the name of Josy Joseph with 50K Army figures sometime back. The MHA report for 2010-11 and the plan outlay for the period ending Mar 2011 have no mention of this. The next AAP is not due in a while. The closest mention I could see in AAP-IV is for setting up of COIN and Anti-Terrorism (CIAT) schools in different states. Which is probably what got the goat of some of the anti-Op Green Hunt apparatchiks, who wanted to put a spade in the works by making it a rallying war-cry. Possible, not out of the CT realms.Rudradev wrote: Stan, I cannot find the Indian Express report anywhere... or any other mention of this "decision to deploy" 65,000 troops by the Army, except in SATP.
RAIPUR: Less than three weeks after the Supreme Court held that the appointment of tribal men as special police officers (SPOs) was unconstitutional, the Chhattisgarh government on Friday lowered the educational qualifications for adivasi youth for constabulary jobs in the police and armed force.
The state cabinet passed the order that education up to Class V will make applicants eligible for constabulary; the earlier requirement was clearing Class X. The announcement comes weeks after the Supreme Court order led to the disarming of SPOs — nearly 5,000 tribal men hired on a temporary basis on less than one-third the salary of a constable and deployed in anti-Maoist operations. The court said they were being used as "canon fodder in the killing fields of Dantewada".
Chief minister Raman Singh said, "Eighty percent of the SPOs will become constables. For the remaining 20% we would try and get them to clear through open school."
The decision is widely seen as the government's way to circumvent the court's order. By lowering educational criteria, over a staggered period, all SPOs can now be absorbed in the regular police force.
Ranchi, July 24: A Maoist kangaroo court branded six villagers police informers, shot dead two and relegated three to house arrest in Latehar last week. The sixth “accused” managed to escape after trial.
Sources said the rebels held court twice — on July 21 and yesterday — at Sarju forests, 20km from the district headquarters in Garu police station area, to punish the six who had apparently helped the police during Operation Parakram earlier this month.
Sources said Anil Oraon (24), a resident of Lai village in Garu, and Arun Yadav (35) of Kone village under sadar police station were shot dead on July 21.
Identified as first-time “offenders”, Ashok Oraon (20) of Patratu village in Garu, Rajendra Oraon (22) of Lai and Bhola Oraon (20) of Gotang village, also in Garu, were given a punishment less severe yesterday. The trio were told not to leave their respective villages for two years.
Pappu Lohra (30), a resident of Kone village, managed to escape from the clutches of the Maoists. Sources could not say how and when. “The six were abducted on July 20 from their villages at gunpoint. While the killings took place after a kangaroo court on July 21 night, three were banned from leaving their villages two days later,” a source said.
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Sources, however, quoted North Koyal Sankh zone spokesperson of the CPI(Maoist) Deenbandhuji. “Those punished were branded as paid police informers who helped in Operation Parakram against Maoists from July 2 to July 7, in which a training camp and a gun factory were destroyed,” he was quoted as saying.
It is further maintained that the place where the rebels held court is surrounded by steep hillocks. “The location was almost inaccessible for Latehar police,” a source said.
On why the Maoists killed two and let off three, the source said: “The relaxation was given as it was their first mistake committed under police pressure.”
Need to simultaneously bring up their educational levels and skills also.Pratyush wrote:The decision by the CG govt to absorb the SPOs in the regular policy force is a welocme one. It will create a dedicated cader that is directed properly by the state and backed up by the centrel forces will crush the naxal threat in short order.
Salboni, July 28: Several primary school teachers in West Midnapore’s Jungle Mahal area have sought transfer in the face of Maoist “threats and extortion”.
Since Mamata Banerjee’s government assumed charge on May 20, anti-Maoist operations in Jungle Mahal have stopped, allowing the rebels the opportunity to regroup and “start atrocities against teachers again”.
In the past 15 days, at least 26 teachers have submitted applications to the district chairman of the primary education board seeking transfer out of the Maoist-affected zone. A spokesperson of the All Bengal Primary Teachers’ Association (ABPTA) said more teachers were planning to apply for transfer.
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Gurupada Barman, the headmaster of a primary school 8km from Jhargram town, said Maoists had extorted huge sums of money from him through activists of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities. “In the past two and a half years, the Maoists have extorted money from me twice. Recently, PCPA activists again demanded Rs 50,000,” Barman, 50, said.
“I have appealed to the district chairman of the primary education board to transfer me to a school in Jhargram town, where Maoists don’t have a presence,” he added.
Nagen Soren, who teaches in a school 10km from Jhargram, has not been going to work for the past two months fearing Maoist attacks. “Two months ago, a group of Maoists entered my school and threatened to kill the teachers if they did not pay money every month,” Soren, 34, said.
The teacher of a school near Salboni, Prabin Mahato, said: “Between January 2009 and August 2010, the Maoists had forced me to pay Rs 3,000 each month to them. Two henchmen of Maoist leader Bikash used to come to my school and collect the money from me and my two colleagues.”
Police sources said that during this period, the Maoists had murdered 22 primary school teachers either for having links with the CPM or for refusing to pay up.
But the instances of extortion decreased when the joint forces intensified their anti-Maoist operations in end-2010. Rebel coercion had stopped completely after the arrival of central forces in the run-up to the Assembly elections.
Intelligence reports said that with the withdrawal of the central forces who had been deployed on poll duty and the freeze on anti-Maoist operations, the rebels were re-entering Jungle Mahal. “The Maoists require funds to regroup. Schoolteachers are soft targets as they have an assured monthly source of income,” an intelligence officer said.
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ABPTA secretary Biswanath Mandal said there were about 1,200 primary schools in the Jungle Mahal area of West Midnapore. “As it is, the schools are understaffed. There are around 1,800 teachers although there are 2,500 posts. Around 400 teachers have complained of Maoist atrocities and have either sought transfer or are planning to do so,” he said. “The teachers are under tremendous mental pressure. Studies are getting affected.”
LOHARDAGA, JHARKHAND: Sunita Kumari alias Shanti, an active member of the CPI (Maoist) group headed by Akshay Kherwar alleged that senior CPI (Maoist) leaders in the Koel-Shankh zone committee sexually exploit women in their squad.
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Sub divisional police officer Ram Gulam Sharma said that 22-yr-old Sunita was wanted in Kisko police station in different cases. "She, as a team member of Akshay Kherwar, was involved in making Maoists bunker and hiding explosive wire that police had recovered on March 11," said Sharma.
"Sunita told police that she was forcefully taken in Maoists squad by its leader Akshay while she had been to Putrar village under Kisko police station during Holi festival. She also named Seema, Sitamuni, Rekha and Rehana who, too were forcibly taken to the squad and were being sexually exploited by the leaders," said the SDPO.
He added that Sunita was sent to Chhattisgarh with Eklal Lohra for a special training where Maoists had blown a police vehicle killing five police men just to train her how to damage security forces.
"She stated in the confession that she along with other girls was sexually exploited several times. Sunita was once abort in a nursing home near sadar hospital and Maoist leader Akshay had paid Rs 15,000 for it and had also managed her rest in Rajasthan for a month. When a girl wanted to return home leaving the squad she had shot her dead following the orders of the Commander," Sharma said.
I did not understand what is the relation between Hindu editor Siddarth Vardarajan's wife and robbing primary school teachers, has she justified these Maoists actions in the past? I am aware is she is one of those JNU types supporting Maoists(claiming to hate America but becoming a naturalised American Citizen).Anindya wrote:From http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110729/j ... 304676.jsp
I'm not sure how robbing poor primary school teachers and murdering them helps tribal people, but Nandini Sundar will perhaps explain to us, why these people are NOT criminals...
Clearly the cabal of Maino's with their cheerleaders in this man, dont think twice about suppressing Baba Ramdev, for asking govt to tackle corruption, but has no problems supporting Overground workers of murdering Maoists, even when they are openly asking for those who work against Indian nation to be strengthened."In a free democracy like India, every person should be free enough to hold the government wrong on definite accounts," he said.
"Laws like sedition are draconian in nature and has no relevance in contemporary time," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who was also present on the occasion, said.
Archival record of Left politics
July 30, 2011 9:09:06 PM
Left politics in Bengal
Author: Monobina Gupta
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Price: Rs 245
Monobina Gupta, once an ardent CPI(M) supporter, tears into the politics of communist deception and betrayal, writes Anuradha Dutt
The bloody agitations at Nandigram, Singur and Lalgarh exposed the true nature of the CPI(M)-led Government in West Bengal: A revanchist in radical clothing. This explains the sub-title of Monobina Gupta’s book— ‘Time Travels among Bhadralok Marxists’. Gupta, a CPI(M) supporter once and a conscientious witness of its shenanigans, tears into its politics, deceptions and final betrayal. Drawing from the archives as well as her own experiences and encounters as a reporter, she refrains from sugar-coating the bitter truth about Left politics in Bengal. The massacre of East Bengal refugees in Marichjhanpi in the Sundarbans, almost two years after the swearing-in of the Jyoti Basu Government in June 1977, was a precursor to the events mentioned above, though separated by three decades. Then, refugees, whom the communists had won over by their sympathy, were brutally evicted from this island after they ascended to power on the grounds that they had been placed there by the foreign hand. Thirty years later, to implement economic reforms, foisted on India by the same hand, the communists fell upon the very people, whose support kept them in power for over three decades.
In the wake of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress-Congress combine thrashing the Left Front in the Assembly elections in May, resulting in a non-communist Government in West Bengal after 34 years, Gupta’s book acquires special relevance. This is because throughout its incisive analysis of Left politics in West Bengal, detailing acts of commission and omission, the underlying refrain points at a debacle for the reigning communist forces in the May elections. The prognosis being correct, updating the book may be a good idea. Left leaders and ideologues would do well to read it, to understand how erstwhile supporters, ranging from peasants, the working class to artistes and intellectuals, view them: The original idealism being diluted and compromised over three decades, owing to the compulsions of realpolitik, so that ostensibly hard-core communists morph into unabashed free market proponents, at par with the Congress and their bête noire BJP. Worse, they continue to parrot Left-wing jargon while doing quite the opposite, and deploying Stalinist methods on their vote-banks in Bengal in a bid to wrest land from them for industries, and forcibly crush resistance.
The gulf between appearance and reality is so wide that former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s show of surprise at the rout, terming it unexpected, if considered a gauge of the top leadership’s understanding of events, suggests that the rot runs deep. A moribund Left, still dominated by the CPI(M), the biggest component, would need complete re-hauling from the top if it is sincere about mending its fortunes. A line of thought that the writer skims over is that perhaps the red bastion was willfully sabotaged by comrades themselves, buckling down to free market pressures. The presence of moles in the given polity is not unusual, particularly in the case of ideology which is transposed from alien climes. For, after implementing Operation Barga, which entailed land reforms, hinging on giving land to some of the landless, and promoting share-cropping, the CPI(M)-led State Government stopped short of taking the process of eradicating social iniquities to its logical end. In fact, land acquisition at Nandigram and Singur for the Indonesian Salim Group and the Tata Group, respectively, reversed the measures initiated by Operation Barga. Many peasants were forced to give up land, doled out to them by the Government. The ruling regime, quite like other State Governments post-economic liberalisation, was reduced to functioning as a facilitator for real estate deals, brokered by powerful business interests.
Why, then, did the communists backtrack? This, contends Gupta, possibly owes to the fact of landowners and landlords exercising control over the CPI(M) even though it sheds tears in public over the plight of peasants, landless and the dispossessed. It is an interesting theory, accounting for the Left’s proximity to kulak-dominated parties such as the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Samajwadi Party and other so-called socialist factions. It also explains why the Left has consistently been supporting reservations for OBCs, whose principal beneficiaries, as everyone knows, are rich farming communities, and not the most backward classes, which, in the absence of land-holdings, eke out a subsistence-level existence. In the ultimate analysis, its rhetoric is all sound and fury. Like other status quoists parties, the CPI(M) works to preserve existing social equations. Talk of ‘revolution’ is merely a ploy to capture power with the support of the toiling majority.
The writer comes down harshly on the Karat duo, dictating the strange trajectory of CPI(M) politics since the fading away of stalwarts Harkishan Singh Surjeet and Jyoti Basu. Their ascent has been synchronous with the party’s decline. While Basu, as Chief Minister, did nothing after the initial land reforms, Bhattacharjee, his successor, on the pretext of spurring industrial revival, tried to do something but with disastrous consequences. Contempt — voters’ as much as the analyst’s — rounds up the saga.
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/ ... wMode=HTMLNod for specialized force in Red zones A s development works are increasingly becoming targets of Maoists in their strongholds, the government will now raise a new 13,000-strong force called the Specialized India Reserve Battalions (SIRBs). The new security team will have both security and engineering components to execute development works in Red Zones. “The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has approved the raising of 10 new SIRBs and conversion of three into SIRBs,” home minister P Chidambaram said. Between 2007 and 2011, the Maoists had attacked as many as 1,241 ‘economic targets’, damaging railway properties, telephone exchanges/towers, electricity lines, power plants, roads across nine states.
Fri Aug 05 2011, New Delhi:
Finding fault with the recent Supreme Court order banning the use of Special Police Officers (SPOs) in the fight against Naxalism, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the order seemed to have been guided by the “ideology of its authors” and stepped on a subject that fell exclusively in the domain of the government.
Home Minister P Chidambaram lent the government’s support to the criticism, saying that he “agreed entirely” with the BJP leader on this issue.
Making an intervention during a discussion on internal security in the Upper House, Jaitley brought up the recent order while dwelling on the subject of left-wing extremism. “I must say I am extremely disturbed with the recent pronouncement of the Supreme Court (on the issue),” he said.
“Since 1861 onwards (since the establishment of the Indian Police Act, 1861), community members are actively encouraged to aid and help the civilian police. Village defence committees have been active in many states for a number of years. The concept of SPOs and these committees is that since police cannot be present everywhere all the time, members of the community must come forward to contribute in safeguarding itself,” Jaitley said.
The SC through some ideologically motivated folks connected with the institution is displaying an increasingly vocal and motivated bias towards the Indian state and its peoples.Aditya_V wrote:Chetak, I guess that rests the case as far the SPO order is considered.
Isnt Gudsa Usendi the alias for the spokesperson of "Dadakaranya special zone" ? Currently its Katta Ramachandra Reddy , i guss !Stan_Savljevic wrote: I have seen a similar script posted at the usual outlets under the name of Gudsa Usendi.
I think Gudsa Usendi has nothing to do with Telugu language.It was a real person's name, a Maoist cadre of Maria tribe from Chattisgarh who was killed by the Police.After his death, the spokesperson of Dandakaranya region took his name as alias and ever since all the propaganda is carried out with that alias.Stan_Savljevic wrote:PS: I can guess that Gudsa Usendi stands for something with an internal meaning. Does it mean something in proper Telugu or in the version spoken in Telangana?
You can't even imagine.vijayk wrote: Imagine that! These people can invest 5 crores. Wonder how many such benami businesses are they running!
New Delhi, Aug. 7: Merciless retribution has alarmingly become the most common word in the savage lexicon of Bihar Maoists who are pulling out all the stops to target “deserters” and everyone even remotely connected to them.
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This blood lust of the CPI(Maoist) was triggered by the murders of the outfit’s Jamui-Banka zonal leader and his associate by some “disgruntled” tribal cadres in Nagatoli, Rohtas. Around 13 tribal rebels also abandoned the outfit following the killing and was reportedly sheltered by Sugriv Kharwar, a former headman of Pipardih village, also in Rohtas. Kharwar even floated an organisation, the Kaimuranchal Jan Sena, for surrendered Maoist men.
He paid the penalty within a month. Some 30 rebels, led by one Munna Vishwakarma, barged into the house of one of his relatives in Bonda village of Rohtas in the afternoon of July 30 and hacked three persons to death. By July 22, the Bihar police reportedly had intelligence inputs from central agencies about Vishwakarma and his men on the move near the village, but the attack was not prevented.
On August 1, a police informer, Lakho Yadav, who played a key role in the arrest of some top-ranking rebels in the area, was also slaughtered by Maoists when he went to his native village in Rohtas. Another villager who only accompanied him was also murdered.
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The savage hunt by Maoists is not restricted to Bihar alone. At Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, Maoists have killed a couple of mentally deranged men, accusing them of being police informers. The heads of victims were bludgeoned with stones, suggesting the degree of hatred.
In Chhattisgarh, after a July 5 Supreme Court verdict disarmed SPOs, the Maoists have spoken in twin tones. On the one hand, they are threatening SPOs with dire consequences, on the other hand, they made announcements asking SPOs to embrace Naxalism.
“These are incidents that should cause concern because Maoists are on a killing spree. Look at Gadchiroli or the fate of SPOs. There is systematic targeting,” said an officer.
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Stating that Naxalism has to end and there was "no way backwards" on this, the chief minister cautioned that one had to be prepared for a long-drawn battle to end the menace. On the Supreme Court judgement with regard to disarming the SPOs in Naxal-infested areas, Singh said, "While fully respecting the apex court judgement, we have issued an ordinance to form the Chhattisgarh Auxiliary Force whereby 6,000-odd tribals will be part of this force." He said, "If we disarm the SPOs, who will protect them and their families, who have already suffered many killings of their kin. The State has now provided them with uniform, better pay scales and insurance to live a life of dignity."
Citing the example of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, who dodged police forces of three states for 12 years, the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister said, "I have thousands of Veerappan hiding in bigger jungles who are also armed with deadly weapons." Singh sought the Centre's help in tackling Naxalism asking for a Rs 125-crore package for upgrading firearm and bomb-detection technology in the state. "We do not have IED detection technology and are seeking the Centre's help in upgrading our technology." "If terrorism in Punjab could be solved, why not the problem of Naxalism," Singh said while suggesting an integrated plan of development in the affected areas.