The National Security Guard — India’s crack anti-terrorist force — will soon make its presence felt in anti-Naxalite operations by training state police and central forces like the Central Reserve Police Force to fight Left extremists. It will start the course from January 2006, sources said.The government, however, is against using the NSG’s Special Operations Groups (SOGs) directly for anti-Naxalite operations.The Home Ministry, which has so far failed to form a unified strategy to deal with Left extremism, is understood to have given in-principle clearance to the NSG to start the training programme. The NSG will run the course at its training centre in Manesar. The course, sources said, would be the first to address the psychological aspects of Left extremism. To carry out mock anti-Naxalite operations, an entire village is being replicated at Manesar. “The police officers must know what to expect when they are in Naxal-affected areas’’ said NSG Director General A.K. Mitra.The NSG has already carried out a study of modus operandi of Naxalites, structure of their organisations and modes of recruitment. Since Naxalites use different strategies in different states, the course will address this aspect too. Senior NSG Special Operations Group officers who will design the course have also studied the training programmes of state police forces like that of the Andhra Pradesh’s Grey Hound.“The mock operations and theoretical inputs will prepare the policemen for operating in Naxal-affected areas, and more importantly, using the terrain to their advantage’’ Mitra said. As many as nine states from Bihar to Karnataka are severely affected by Left extremism. Unable to deal with rising police casualties and the ebbing morale of the police forces, the Home Ministry has recently asked the police in Naxal-affected districts not to wear uniform or use marked vehicles.Naxalites kill TRS activistHyderabad: Naxalites killed a Telangana Rashtra samithi (TRS) worker when villagers of Korukonda village in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh revolted against them late last night, police said.A group of naxals of CPI-ML (New Democracy) belonging to Ashok Dalam raided Byyaram Mandal village and attacked Chekuri Ravi, another TRS activist, police said today.However, the villagers, including women, warned them to leave the village. Peeved at the resistance, the extremists opened fire, killing Paraika Somaiah (32).
