The selection of districts suffering from Left Wing Extremism (LWE) has fallen to seven from 8 following a contemporary evaluate by means of the Union executive, aligning with its declared function of finishing the Naxal threat by means of March 2026.
The Ministry of House Affairs has issued a revised categorisation to Naxal-affected states with impact from 9 February after endeavor a complete overview of 38 districts throughout 9 states, Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal. The former evaluate used to be performed in December 2025.
Underneath the up to date classification, seven districts proceed to be labeled as “LWE-affected districts” the place incidents of Naxal violence are nonetheless reported. Those are Bijapur, Narayanpur, Sukma, Kanker and Dantewada in Chhattisgarh; West Singhbhum in Jharkhand; and Kandhamal in Odisha.
The “different LWE-affected districts” class has been diminished by means of one district since December 2025 and now incorporates Dantewada in Chhattisgarh and Kandhamal in Odisha.
The nationwide coverage regulates useful resource allocation underneath the Safety-Comparable Expenditure (SRE) scheme, dividing spaces into “LWE-affected districts” and “legacy and thrust districts”. The latter class has risen to 31 districts from 30 within the earlier evaluate.
Consistent with the House Ministry, “legacy districts” are the ones not considerably suffering from LWE however requiring endured beef up for safety and construction projects. “Thrust districts” are regarded as prone to doable Naxal enlargement and subsequently stay underneath shut watch.
Union House Minister Amit Shah has again and again maintained that the Naxal threat, as soon as termed the rustic’s gravest inner safety problem in 2010, might be eradicated by means of March 2026. He has mentioned that Naxal violence has claimed round 17,000 lives of civilians and safety body of workers.
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