Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Narendra Modi government is committed to providing opportunities for rehabilitation to victims of Naxal Violence and people with disabilities. Mr Singh said this while addressing an assistive devices distribution ceremony for Divyangjans, including those affected by Naxal violence through video conference under the ongoing Seva Sankalp Abhiyan.
Mr Shah said that five decades of Naxalism had inflicted immense suffering on the poor tribal communities of Bastar. The Minister said that using IEDs to inflict disabilities on innocent civilians in pursuit of political objectives was the gravest violation of human rights. Mr Shah said that the Modi government had been firmly committed to eliminating Naxalism from the entire country before 31 March this year, and that Naxalism had now been eliminated. that every trace of Naxalism must be eliminated and Bastar must once again become a vibrant and thriving region.
The Minister said that the Chhattisgarh Government had undertaken several initiatives, including the Bastar Olympics, Bastar Pandum, Niyad Nellanar and the Chief Minister’s Samuhik Bus Yojana, to transform Bastar. He said that Bastar, where the sounds of gunfire and bomb blasts once created an atmosphere of fear, is now witnessing thousands of young people participating in sports and keeping their traditions alive.
