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The Union authorities has notified 5 Naxal-violence affected districts of Andhra Pradesh following the state authorities not too long ago finishing up a reorganisation of territorial limits in these areas, officers stated Tuesday.

A overview was carried out by the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) “in session” with the state authorities and central safety forces after which the brand new Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected districts have been named, they stated.

The variety of such districts stays at 5 – the identical as within the final such notification of June 202.1 A notification issued by the Left Wing Extremism division of MHA on December 8, 2022 named Alluri Sitharama Raju, East Godavari, Parvathipuram Manyam, Srikakulam and Vishakhapatnam because the LWE-affected districts of the state.

These 5 districts will now be supplied particular central funds, as earmarked below the security-related expenditure (SRE) scheme for LWE hit states, for the monetary yr 2022-23, it stated.

Alluri Sitharama Raju has been categorised because the “most affected LWE district” of Andhra Pradesh. Districts that account for 85-90 per cent of Maoist violence within the nation fall on this class.

Earlier, as per the final dwelling ministry notification of June 2021 on this topic, the 5 LWE-affected districts of Andhra Pradesh had been East Godavari, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and West Godavari.

Officers stated the change within the categorisation of LWE districts was completed on the request of the Andhra authorities which intimated to the MHA in September final yr that the Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy-led state authorities has carried out a reorganisation of districts of the state. Due to this fact, the Maoist violence-hit areas comprising the older 5 districts have been “reorganised” into 11 new districts. The state authorities sought to incorporate these 11 districts below the SRE scheme.

Nonetheless, the joint overview categorised solely the 5 districts which have been named within the newest notification as LWE affected in Andhra Pradesh, officers stated.

13 new districts had been carved out by the AP authorities, including to the present 13, and so they got here into existence on Telugu New 12 months’s Day- Ugadi- on April 4 final yr.

The central authorities instructed Parliament throughout the not too long ago concluded session in December that the incidents of Naxal violence have diminished by 77 per cent from a excessive of two,213 in 2010 to 509 in 2021.  The resultant deaths (civilians and safety forces) have diminished by 85 per cent from the excessive of 1,005 in 2010 to 147 in 2021, Union Minister of State for Residence Nityanand Rai had stated in a written reply in Lok Sabha, including that the declining pattern continued in 2022.

The minister additionally stated the geographical unfold of the violence has additionally considerably diminished and solely 191 police stations of 46 districts reported LWE-related violence in 2021 as in comparison with a excessive of 465 police stations in 96 districts in 2010.

The decline within the geographical unfold can also be mirrored within the diminished variety of districts lined below the SRE scheme and the variety of these districts diminished from 126 to 90 in April 2018 and additional to 70 in July 2021, in line with knowledge supplied by him.

The variety of districts contributing roughly 90 per cent of the LWE violence, categorised as most LWE-affected districts, additionally got here all the way down to 30 from 35 in 2018 and additional to 25 in 2021, he stated.

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