Centre reviews development works in 7 Naxal-hit states

Chief secretaries of seven Naxal-affected states and secretaries of key central ministries today reviewed development projects initiated in Maoist-hit areas, including installation of mobile towers, expansion of railway lines besides others.
Issues such as installation of mobile towers in grey areas, increasing the reach of networks of Doordarshan and All India Radio, improvement in development programmes, expansion of railway lines, banking and postal services were discussed in detail, a Home Ministry official said.
Addressing the meeting, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that progress in development works has picked up during the last two years, and congratulated the states and the central ministries concerned.

Singh stressed the need to build upon this progress further, and finish the projects in hand at an even quicker pace, so that the people living in these areas are benefited and get access to services and facilities on par with other parts of the country.
The Home Minister also noted that deaths due to Left wing extremism incidents had declined by 42 per cent in 2015 as compared to 2013.
The meeting, initiated by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, took stock of the progress of different projects in the seven Naxal-hit states -- Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and Maharashtra.

Secretaries of the central ministries like Railways, Road Transport and Highways, Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Post, Information and Broadcasting, Communication and IT, Finance, Health and Family Welfare and Human Resource Development participated in the meeting.
During the meeting, special projects such as construction of roads (both RRP-I and II), installation of mobile towers, development measures such as schools with hostel facility, Kendriya Vidyalayas/Navodaya Vidyalayas in the worst-affected districts were discussed threadbare.
It was also decided to upgrade the multi-specialty hospital at Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh.