Countering the Naxals
Harinder Singh
Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA from April 2009 to January 2011 Joined IDSA April 2009 Expertise Counter-terrorism, Operational Readiness and Sustainability Issues Education MSc in Defence Studies… Continue reading Countering the Naxals read more
This essay attempts to weld the three prongs – governance, security and development – to better understand and handle the situation in the naxal affected states. Theoretically speaking, a three-pronged approach will have to be built around the conceptual framework of GRID-GUARD-GOVERN spanning the critically affected naxal belt. There is nothing new about the strategy except that it would have to be comprehensive in design and necessitate a “whole of the government” approach. The strategy presupposes the need to do away with the sequential application of socio-economic solutions, and which could sometimes be unsavourily politics or media driven, by undertaking security-led governance cum development action.
