Centre wakes up to Naxal menace
the centre will recruit around 37,000 personnel under the Indian Reserve battalion scheme for deployment in Naxal-affected states. The decision comes after prime minister Manmohan Singh urged states to "choke Naxal infrastructure and cripple their activities' in a two-day chief minister's conference on internal security in the capital on December 19-20. Referring to Naxalism as "the single biggest security challenge', he urged the states to raise forces on the