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Patna,(BiharTimes): Eighty-five of about 400 fortified police stations to be set up in India would come up in the Maoists-hit areas of Bihar.
Besides, 75 such police stations would come up each in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, 70 in Orissa, 40 in Andhra Pradesh, 18 in West Bengal, 15 in Uttar Pradesh and 12 in Madhya Pradesh. |
These special police stations with two-tiers transparent barbed wire perimeter walls, will have their own mobile towers and ammunition stocks to last a siege.
According to sources since a grenade’s effectiveness is limited to 50 metres of the impact, the police stations would come up on a sprawling area, making it difficult to Maoists to inflict damage by hurling grenades.
However, nowadays Maoists are using rifles to launch grenades. Thus the range has increased much and fortified police stations may be targeted, it is feared.
Fortified police stations are not the only armour the Union government is planning for these states. For example, the Chhattisgarh government has allotted about 50,000 hectares of land in Bastar district for the Army Training Battalion. It is a part of government plan to create a Sub-Area Command of the Army in the state.
But the police officials are not much satisfied by this move as they said that the Maoists never attack the Army.
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