Bhubaneswar: In a decisive transfer to eradicate the lingering Naxal menace, the Odisha Police is ready to launch a renewed and intensified offensive throughout the state. A brand new strategic framework will information the anti-Naxal operations, with a particular deal with intelligence-led policing and enhanced public participation.

As a part of the initiative, a toll-free helpline quantity will quickly be operational, enabling residents to confidentially share data on Naxal actions. Informants will likely be assured of full secrecy and incentivised with rewards for credible inputs, official sources confirmed.

Further Director Basic (ADG) of Police (Anti-Naxal Operations), Sanjeeb Panda, who not too long ago assumed cost of the unit, has outlined a proactive technique pivoting on real-time surveillance, inter-agency coordination, and heightened intelligence-gathering in susceptible districts.

Talking to reporters right here, ADG Panda highlighted that the transfer is available in alignment with Union house minister Amit Shah’s nationwide directive to attain a Naxal-free India by 2026. The operational blueprint consists of intensified combing operations and joint offensives in crucial areas alongside Odisha’s inter-state borders.

“At current, Naxal actions in Odisha are largely concentrated alongside the triple border of Kandhamal, Kalahandi, and Rayagada districts. With lively help from district administrations, Particular Intelligence Wing (SIW), Particular Operations Group (SOG), Border Safety Drive (BSF), Central Reserve Police Drive (CRPF), and District Voluntary Drive (DVF), we’ll escalate coordinated operations in these and different delicate pockets,” Panda said.

The ADG additionally introduced plans to undertake joint operations in border districts like Sundargarh, Koraput, Nuapada, Nabarangpur, and Malkangiri, in collaboration with police forces from neighbouring states akin to Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh.

The intensified crackdown marks a big step in the direction of dismantling many years of rebel exercise that has plagued a number of elements of Odisha. It follows a current administrative reshuffle on July 9, the place the State authorities appointed 1994-batch IPS officer Sanjeeb Panda because the ADG of Anti-Naxal Operations, entrusting him with the essential accountability of steering the State’s offensive towards the outlawed teams.