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Dumuriput, June 10: New technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) would be pressed into service to wipe out Maoist activities in Koraput district, CRPF director general Prakash Mishra Wednesday told here the media persons.
Mishra had come here to review strategies to combat Mao menace in the district and to sort out the problems of 202- Cobra battalion in Sunabeda. He held discussions with top officers of Cobra camp which has a battalion of central para military force.
Earlier, the DG landed on the helipad of the battalion and inaugurated a swimming pool, administrative building, a men’s club, mess building and a route named after martyr Ashis Tiwari. He also inaugurated huge swimming pool which would be used to train the jawans.
The DG said Sunabeda was the safest place for the jawans to carry out anti-Red operations and added that 202-Cobra battalion has been equipped with all the required facilities for advanced training. Full cooperation from Orissa police is essential in such operations and the state government should extend all assistance in this direction, he said.
South-western IG Yashwant Jethwa and other officials were present at the review meeting. DG Mishra returned New Delhi after the meeting.
