"Adequate police personnel to be deployed in naxal-hit areas"

Three of the seven districts under North Chhotanagpur Division in Jharkhand are the most sensitive areas and adequate security personnel would be deployed there in the run up to the General Elections, a senior police official said today.
"Areas under Giridih, Bokaro and Chatra districts are sensitive as they are naxalite affected. Maximum security personnel will be deployed in these areas," Inspector General of Police (North Chhotanagpur Division) Laxman Prasad Singh told reporters here.
He chaired a meeting with SPs of Giridih, Bokaro, Chatra, Dhanbad, Koderma, Ramgarh and Hazaribagh under the division to chalk out operational strategies ahead of the three-phase elections in the state beginning April 10.

"We are ready to conduct elections peacefully. A survey of booths under naxal-affected areas is also underway," he said.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of recent reports that the union Home Ministry has sent an advisory to various states to step up operations in naxal strong-hold areas and the forces must remain in 'mission mode' during the entire electoral process to ensure peaceful elections.
The 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand are going for polls on April 10, 17 and 24.
The police officer also appealed to the extremists to join the mainstream.