Wednesday, April 21, 2010
NEW DELHI: To root out the problem of Left-wing extremism PM Manmohan Singh has pitched for urgent and considered action. Singh asserted that the Left-wing extremism as the gravest internal security faced by the nation. Inaugurating the Civil Services Day function in New Delhi on Wednesday, Dr. Singh said, “No quarter can be given to those who have taken upon themselves to challenge the authority of the Indian state and the fabric of our democratic polity”.
This was in the response of worst-ever Maoist attack at Chitangufa in Chhattisgarh on April 6 in which seventy five CRPF personnel’s were brutally massacred. In Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday night, the Naxalites had opened fire on five separate CRPF camps in quick succession.
Singh asked the civil servants to make certain that no area of the country is deprived of the benefits of the government’s developmental programmes, underscoring the fact that Left-wing extremism was flourishing in under-developed areas of the country.
Sing said many areas in which such extremism flourishes are under-developed and poor tribals, who live in these areas have not shared justifiably in the fruits of development. The Prime Minister asserted, “It is incumbent upon us to make sure that no area of our country is deprived of the benefits of our ambitious developmental programmes”.
Dr. Singh said to harness the tools of information technology and to involve the anticipated beneficiaries in accomplishment, so that complaints of leakages, sleaze and lack of transparency get addressed.
Dr. Manmohan Singh said that wide-ranging growth was the centerpiece of the developmental agenda of the UPA. It will provide the resources to address the problems of diseases, ignorance and poverty. The Prime Minister said that India was able to post a respectable growth rate of 6.7 percent in 2008-09, despite of global economic slowdown. He further said, “The growth rate for 2009-10 is estimated at 7.2% and forecast of 8.25% for 2010-11”. He further said that government is determined to achieve an annual growth rate of nine percent.
