C'garh CM looking to attract investments as LWE declines
Hindustan Times Ludhiana|December 23, 2024
Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai, along with a team of top state bureaucrats, are set to meet industrialists and investors in the Capital on Monday with an aim to boost the state's economic and industrial growth in view of the declining cases of left wing extremism (LWE), officials aware of the matter said.
Prawesh Lama

NEW DELHI:

The development comes days after Union home minister Amit Shah announced that the Centre and the Chhattisgarh government are committed to eliminating Maoism from the state by March 31, 2026 and making the state an industrial and tourism hub. Earlier, two out of the seven districts in the Maoist-infested Bastar division Bastar and Kondagaon were declared free from the scourge of LWE, roughly five decades after they were first put on the list.

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