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DNA India: "West Bengal demands additional central forces for Maoist-hit districts"
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- Published on 15 January 2011
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State secretariat sources said here that the demand had already been placed by state home secretary GD Gautama in a communication to Union home secretary GK Pillai.
The state government, however, is yet to receive any feedback on its demand.
The three Maoist-hit districts already have 35 companies of CRPF and six companies of the Naga Battalion, the sources said.
Additional director general of police (law and order) Surajit Kar Purakayastha said that demand for six companies of CRPF, including one company of women personnel, had also been placed before the Centre to combat growing law and order problems in Darjeeling following continuous agitation by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to press for a Gorkhaland state.
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