ABSTRACT
Till a few years ago, Maoists used to frequently come to villages, hold people’s courts and kill people in the name of informers. Police forces used to raid villages and torture innocents in the name of Maoist sympathisers. Yet, there is a lot to be done to ensure that the frustrated youth do not go back to Maoism, says V. B. Chandrasekhar of Girijan Seema Welfare Association. And there have been instances in the last couple of years that the youth resisted the entry of Maoists in their villages’, points out J. Venkatesh, district coordinator of the NGO Internally Displaced Project. At Edugurrallapadu, about 30 km from Chintoor, which is still considered a Maoist-influenced village because of its proximity to the Chhattisgarh forests, there is a big black board explaining the works taken up under various components of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
