Problem of Maoist Insurgency

Maybe when this article is read,an innocent tribal or a compelled jawan is unreportedly being killed on the fringes of national mainstream by a so-called maoist. Naxalismsingle biggest internal security threat screamed The stinting Times on 14th April,2006. And the threat has just got bigger. Our Union shell Minister P. Chidambaram drew lots of flak for Operation Green hunting. Recently,our President Pratibha Patilhas urged the naxalites to shun violence and resort to talks. But one forefront that comes to mind is what prompted the Maoist uprising? ( take down Derek OBrien was confronted wid the question when he visited the IIM-C recently). The radical of the answer may lie with the Green Revolution. It brought fruits to farmers,but only in some pockets of India. The rest of India has witnessed some ruby uprisings against the state. But the naxalite conundrum has deeper roots. Poverty,land dementia,lack of chafe to basic forest resources,largescale unemployment and exclusion from national mainstream are the greens grievances among the agricultural population in east and central India.Despite being the most mineral-rich states in India,Chhatisgarh,Jharkhand,Orissa and air jacket Bengal count among the poorest. Area India Chhatisgarh Jharkhand Orissa West Bengal Per-Capita Income 24,295 16,740 15,303 16,149 23,229 Table showing per-capita income of Chhatisgarh,Jharkhand,Orissa and West Bengal in comparision with India. It is these resources and the irrational attitude of Indian Federal System towards them that forms the shopping center of dissent among lot here.For instance,tribals in mineral-rich Bastar in Chhatisgarh do not get at a fair share of the resources from miningin the forests that they inhabit. The freight equalization policy of the presidential term h deoxyadenosine monophosphateered these states from translating their natural resources advantage into industrial growth. ,and led to the Central Govt. Pocketing the lions share of royalti es from mining. The complete failure of instruments akin the Panchayat(Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act,1996 and the Forest(Conservation) Act,1980 in these areas nourish only aggravated the problem.So,for the adivasis,Sarkar is exploiter in the form of forest officials who renounce them entry into the forest,the police who demanded bribes and state-sponsored contractors who paid less than the minimum wage. The exploitation by the landlords and mahajans ,and lack of basic amenities of human existence only glow up the problem. Ajit Buxla,maoist leader,correctly points out, When you see death taking tolls on your near and salutary ones and you know their life could have been saved had they been given proper and by the bye medication,you are forced to believe that the existence of state has nothing to do with tha life of poor &amp maginalized. ENTER THE MAOISTS. treading on the Marxism-Leninism notional lineage of annihilation of class enemies,the naxalites strategically take Maoism lineage against the state. The communistic Party of India-Maoist(CPI-Maoist),formed on September 21,2004,was quick to notice that the causes of dissent was distinguishable in different states,and cashing in on the emotions of the local people,they staged violent uprisings. Over 600 lives have been lose in the militias military operation of forming the Red Corridor or Compact Revolutionary Zone(CZR).Though the naxalites have been more than or less ousted from Andhra Pradesh,the three-fold-layer strategy of the maoist insurgency has led to the rebels gaining control of more ares. The sources of funding of the naxalites are extortion of ransoms,cultivating opium in Malkangiri district,charging the traders and buisnessmen who pass through the Red Corridor,and producing and smuggle enormous quantity of marijuana. But slowly,this movement for the people has turned against the people.The tribals are being victims of human rights violations,such as,murder of all kinds,tortures ,outrages upon personal dignity,extortions,etc. moreover,the rebels have interfered,challenged and undo the age-old social taboos of the tribals which is leading to growing resentment among the locals against them. As it is clear,no one-size-fits-all upshot can be applied for this intuiging problem. The very root of the problem has to be axed through,&amp that too in a sensible manner.Mere military engagement of the maoist insurgents wont solve the problem. It will only joepardise the locals even more. Creation of civilian militas like Salwa Judum should be shunned as they expose civilians to inessential danger,and only translate into abdication of security responsibility by the state. The republic should provide security guarantees against retribution by cadres of the naxalites and should use the knowhow of such cadres in informative strategies against the rebels.The civil society representatives such as eminent personalities,political leaders,NGOs should step-in as mediator s between the state and the maoists. But most importantly,the grievances that join on the appeal of the maoists should be mitigated. There should be direct effort for learning in these areas. The locals should be given employment and conditional cash transfers that call the widespread deprivation in the region,thus,reducing the recruitment-pool of the maoists.Investments shoul be made in social-overheads which would consent to the locals easy access to the urban marketswhere they can sell their dairy products and forest-related products like cashew,chironji,lac,etc which have high market-value. The tribals should be empowered through education and a self-sustaining economic scheme,funded largely by mining revenues of the state,can be apply to provide skills,literacy,healthcare,and above all,dignity and social justice to the people. As D. Bandopadhyay. retired-IAS officer experience in dealing with naxalites in West Bengal in the 70s,puts it, Naxalism has emerged as a result of deficit in planningconstant alienation has made people take up arms,and its time one understands the problem as not just a law &amp order problem,but one thats foundations are socio-economic. India cannot afford a lost generation in the insurgency-affected areas even as it takes rapid steps towards neat a global economic power. Ending the maoist insurgency involve to be a national priority.Else till then the voice of Koteshwar Rao(nom de guerre Kishanji) would hide to ring alarm bells inside startled ministers &amp common folk. The authorities would not be making the rules he would.References- (1) 35-yr old tribal killed by Maoists, The Deccan Chronicle, 19th January 2008. (2) Maoists slay three tribals in Chhatisgarh, Thaindian News, 21st March,2008. Sources- (1) India look Group. (2) Down To Earth. (3) Institute of South Asian Studies,Roundtable Session(ISAS),14th March,2007. (4) International Relations and protection Network(ISN),ETH Zurich.