{"id":42470,"date":"2024-09-16T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=42470"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:50:42","slug":"centre-doubles-funding-for-road-connectivity-in-lwe-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/centre-doubles-funding-for-road-connectivity-in-lwe-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre Doubles Funding for Road Connectivity in LWE Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in the News?<\/li>\n<li>About Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism Affected Areas<\/li>\n<li>About Naxalism<\/li>\n<li>Ambitions of Naxals<\/li>\n<li>Steps Taken by the Successive Governments to Counter Naxalism<\/li>\n<li>News Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Why in the News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Centre has doubled the allocation of funds under the <strong>Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism Affected Areas<\/strong> (RCPLWEA) for financial year 2024-25.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that Left Wing Extremism will be \u201ccompletely eradicated\u201d in the country before March 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism Affected Areas<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Union Government&#8217;s Road Connectivity Project for <strong>Left Wing Extremism<\/strong> (LWE) Affected Areas aims <strong>to improve infrastructure in regions impacted by insurgency and extremism<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Launched as part of a broader strategy to foster development and peace, the project focuses on constructing and upgrading roads in the most affected areas.<\/li>\n<li>A separate vertical under the <strong>Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana<\/strong> (PMGSY), it is aimed at <strong>providing all-weather road connectivity with culverts and cross-drainage structures in 44 worst-affected LWE districts and adjoining districts in 9 states<\/strong>, which are \u201ccritical from security and communication point of view\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Under the scheme, the <strong>Centre and states share the expenditure in 60:40 ratio<\/strong> \u2014 same as under PMGSY.<\/li>\n<li>on September 2, the <strong>Ministry of Rural Development<\/strong>, the nodal ministry for the scheme, said the revised \u201cindicative allocation\u201d of funds \u2014 the central share \u2014 has been kept at <strong>\u20b91,000 crore for financial year 2024-25<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This is double the amount allocated earlier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>About Naxalism<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The birth of Naxalism is pinpointed to the <strong>Naxalbari<\/strong> uprising in 1967.<\/li>\n<li>Naxalbari, a village in West Bengal that gave its name to the movement, was the site of a peasant revolt, instigated by communist leaders such as <strong>Charu Majumdar<\/strong>, <strong>Kanu Sanyal<\/strong>, and <strong>Jangal Santhal<\/strong> against land owners of the State.<\/li>\n<li>Naxalism is an <strong>extremist ideology<\/strong> which doesn\u2019t believe in the concept of democracy and democratic process.<\/li>\n<li>It is a form of <strong>armed insurgency against the State<\/strong> motivated by Leftist\/Maoist ideologies and thus is also known as Left Wing extremism (LWE) or Maoism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Ambitions of Naxals<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese Communist ideologue and leader <strong>Mao Zedong<\/strong> provided ideological leadership for the Naxalbari movement, advocating that Indian peasants and tribals overthrow the government and upper classes by force.<\/li>\n<li>The objective of their fight was <strong>redistribution of land to working peasants, which was controlled by landlords for generations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Oppressed population, including tribes and rural Dalits, wanted their share of land which was denied to them for generations.<\/li>\n<li>A large number of urban elites were also attracted to the ideology.<\/li>\n<li>To achieve the same, the Naxals, or the Maoists as they are also known, engaged in a violent uprising against security forces.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The early 1970s saw the spread of Naxalism to almost every state in India, barring Western India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Steps Taken by the Successive Governments to Counter Naxalism<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government has used various sustainable strategies towards the Maoist insurgency.<\/li>\n<li>The principal strategy used by the government is the \u2018<i><strong>Law and Order Approach<\/strong><\/i>\u2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intelligence and Networking<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The government has set up Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) at the Central level and State Multi-Agency Centre (SMAC) at the state level.<\/li>\n<li>These centres have proved to be highly effective in Maoist hotbeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deployment of Central Paramilitary Forces<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The creation of <strong>Central Armed Police Forces<\/strong> (CAPF) to carry out counterinsurgency strategies has been a significant factor to improve the condition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>SAMADHAN<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>In 2017, the Union Government launched SAMADHAN.<\/li>\n<li>The acronym stands for the following:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>S \u2013 Smart Leadership, A \u2013 Aggressive Strategy, M \u2013 Motivation and Training, A \u2013 Actionable Intelligence, D -Dashboard Based KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), and KRAs (Key Result Areas), H- Harnessing Technology, A \u2013 Action plan for each theatre and N- No access to Financing.\n<ul>\n<li>This policy aims to hit at critical junctures in the Maoist links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ban on the CPI(Maoist) and the UAPA Act, 2009<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The Union Government in 2009 put a countrywide ban on the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-daily-current-affairs\/prelims-pointers\/cpi\/\" target=\"_blank\">CPI<\/a>(Maoist).<\/li>\n<li>Apart from this, the government enacted the <strong>Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 2009<\/strong> to put a check on the activities of the Naxalites and providing police and paramilitary forces autonomy and increased powers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The government has doubled the funding for the Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism Affected Areas (RCPLWEA) for the financial year 2024-25, following Union Home Minister Amit Shah\u2019s announcement that Left Wing Extremism (LWE) will be eradicated by March 2026.<\/li>\n<li>The revised allocation of \u20b91,000 crore from the central government, up from \u20b9500 crore, will require an additional \u20b9500 crore from the states, making the total funds for the project around \u20b91,500 crore for the year.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme is expected to boost socio-economic development and support security needs in these regions.<\/li>\n<li>Since its inception, <strong>1,347 road projects covering over 12,227 km have been sanctioned, with nearly 9,259 km of roads completed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1. What is Maoism in simple words?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Maoism is a form of communism developed by Mao Tse Tung. It is a doctrine to capture State power through a combination of armed insurgency, mass mobilization and strategic alliances. The Maoists also use propaganda and disinformation against State institutions as other components of their insurgency doctrine.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2. What is the basic difference between Marxism and Communism?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Marxism is a theory about society, while communism is a political and economic system.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/days-after-amit-shah-sets-year-2026-as-extremism-free-target-centre-doubles-funding-for-road-connectivity-in-lwe-areas-9569780\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Days after Amit Shah sets year 2026 as extremism-free target, Centre doubles funding for road connectivity in LWE areas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCPLWEA aims to improve infrastructure in regions impacted by insurgency and extremism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}