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CRPF to devise new ways to combat terrorism, Maoism |
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The paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), mainly responsible for counter-insurgency operations, will devise new methods to combat terrorism and Maoism in the country, its new Director General, V.C. Joshi, said on April 1.
“The force is developing and designing new ways and means to fight Naxals (Maoists),” Joshi told reporters in New Delhi.
Joshi, a 1971 batch Indian Police Service officer of Bihar cadre, took the charge from S.I.S. Ahmed as head of one of the world’s largest paramilitary forces.
He would also continue holding the additional charge of Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, a paramili¬tary force deployed along India’s border with the Chinese region.
Joshi, who had crucial assignments in the Intelligence Bureau and headed the division dealing with Jammu and Kashmir for over 16 years, said he would soon visit his officials in Chhat¬tisgarh, one of the states worst hit by the radical Leftwing violence.
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