Workshop to focus on Left Wing Extremism problems, challenges

A three-day workshop is beginning tomorrow with top officials from ten states and four central security agencies - CRPF, BSF, ITBP and Sashtra Seema Bal participating to delve into the problem of Left Wing Extremism (LWE).
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das will inaugurate the workshop, Additional Director General (CRPF) Sudeep Lakhtakia told reporters here.
He said the decision to organise the workshop in Ranchi on the problem of LWE, not only in Jharkhand but also spread over different states.
On the advice of Union Home Ministry and Bureau of Police Research, states having specialists, professionals, non-professionals and all stake-holders would ponder over the problem and what type of solutions come up would be seen, he said.

"I am an official of Telengana/Andhra Pradesh and LWE in the two states has completely ended with the efforts of police officers, state officials and politicians, devising a policy," Lakhtakia said.
Lakhtakia said security adviser at the Centre K Vijay

Kumar would attend the workshop along with the DGs of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, and DGP/ADGP/DIGP/ and SP rank officers would be present.
In an effort to gel experience with youth, SPs of and Commandants were also roped in for the workshop to share their experience, operations and their effect, he said.
The workshop has been divided into some sections like use technology. Some states used it and got success and whether others could use it would be discussed, he said.

The CRPF official said media has also got an important role as media and social media have become an important part in daily lives,
Technology could be used to uplift the condition of tribals in remote areas, highlighting their issues, he said.
Similarly, he said, NGOs, local administration and para-military forces could share experience and work on one platform.
He cited an example as to how the CRPF helped patients in a remote village of Chhattisgarh by connecting the patients with doctors in Raipur through tele-medicine or by telephone.
"I was reviewing tele-medicine in Chhattisgarh at 55 sub-centres. Sick tribals and villagers were contacted by doctors of Raipur AIIMS and advice is taken. And whatever we can do we are doing... Medicine or small treatment through doctors of CRPF or other para-military forces," Lakhtakia said.

The CRPF also runs the Civic Action Programme to help the local society, he said.