Must take improvement to Maoist-affected areas, says CM Sai

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Friday (December 12, 2025) mentioned that simply ending Maoism was not sufficient, and the federal government wanted to take improvement to the affected areas.

“See, we all know that merely eliminating Naxalism wouldn’t be sufficient and we have to take improvement to that space (Bastar), and we have now began doing that” mentioned Mr. Sai mentioned at a press convention in Raipur in response to a query on the federal government’s imaginative and prescient for Bastar – a left wing extremism affected space in South Chhattisgarh – after March 31, 2026.

The press convention was held on the completion of two years of the present Bharatiya Janata Occasion authorities within the State, and March 2026 is the deadline that the Middle has set for the elimination of Maoism within the nation.

The Chief Minister mentioned {that a} decisive battle was being waged towards Maoism. “Previously two years, 505 Naxalites have been neutralised, 2,386 have surrendered, and 1,901 have been arrested. Bastar is being built-in into the mainstream via safety and improvement,” he mentioned earlier throughout his deal with.

He added that beneath the Niyyad Nella Naar scheme, fundamental facilities equivalent to ration, Aadhaar, Ayushman playing cards, housing, electrical energy, and roads had been offered to distant villages. Faculties have reopened in Bastar, and occasions like eco-tourism, Bastar Pandum, and the Bastar Olympics are creating a brand new identification for the area.

He mentioned that Bastar as a area had immense potential for tourism.

Claiming that public belief had grown even stronger for his authorities over the previous two years, the Chief Minister mentioned that they’d fulfilled the guarantees made to the individuals with “full loyalty and dedication”.

Itemizing a few of these fulfilled guarantees, Mr. Sai mentioned that on the second day of the federal government’s formation, greater than 18 lakh needy households had been accepted for Prime Minister’s Housing. “Farmers are being supplied with a subsidy of Rs. 3,100 per quintal and paddy procurement at 21 quintals per acre, making farming a worthwhile enterprise,” he mentioned.