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Anganwadi workers joined naxals in Chhattisgarh?

Bijapur (Chhattisgarh), May 22: As many as 23 women workers, who went missing over the past four months in this district's Anganwadi centres, are suspected to have joined Naxal organisations.

''Of this district's 128 centres, 31 are not functional,'' said an official of the Bijapur Anganwadi Project Office. As these centres are located in faraway rural regions, it is hard to determine where exactly the workers are.

''People are free to adopt ideology of their choice and the assistants are not government employees and they receive honorarium of Rs 500 per month,'' said Dantewada's Collector K R Pisda.

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J'khand, Ch'garh resp for 68 pc of Naxal violence

New Delhi, Jan 13: As the security establishment grapples with unbridled Naxalite violence in over a dozen states, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have earned the dubious distinction of accounting for 68.16 per cent of the total incidents and 76.42 per cent of the total casualties last year. Latest official figures compiled till the end of November 2007 reveal that security forces suffered heavy casualties in the fight against the Maoists, as 214 personnel were killed compared to 133 during the same period.....
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