Home Department of Maharashtra Government has given one more extension to the Naxal Surrender and Rehabilitation Policy. The previous extension had come to an end on August 28 last year. Since then, after regular follow-up from the police brass, the extension has come on June 19 now. Maharashtra Government had announced Naxal Surrender and Rehabilitation Policy in 2005. Gradually, based upon experience and taking into account the situation on ground, the policy provisions were revised in 2013. Since then, the Naxal Surrender and Rehabilitation Policy of Maharashtra has been the most lucrative. In fact, the policy provisions are so lucrative that Naxalites/Maoists from adjoining State of Chhattisgarh also have surrendered in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra.

 

The previous extension granted in September 2021 came to an end on August 28, 2023. Prior to that, on July 28, 2023, Maharashtra’s Director General of Police had requested to the State Home Department to extend the implementation of the policy by two more years. However, since then, the proposal was moving in the power corridors only for a few months. Earlier this year, the Model Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha came into force. Now that the elections are over and results are declared, State Home Department has granted extension to the implementation of the policy. Accordingly, the extension has been granted with retrospective effect, that is, since August 29, 2023.