The senior IAS officers who have been sent by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to Lalgarh to make an assessment of the situation and submit the feedback to the state government are going to stay at the camps set up by the police at the respective places they have been sent to and not at the safe environs of the circuit houses in towns.

Out of a batch of eight officers, six left for the Ground Zero on Tuesday. They will be divided into three groups and stationed in Ramgarh, Lalgarh and Pirakata.

While Principal Secretary (agriculture) Sanjeeb Chopra and Special Secretary (finance) Bikram Sen will be stationed at Ramgarh, Principal Secretary (PHE) Saurav Das and Milk Commissioner Barun Roy will be camping at Lalgarh. And the two officers who will be stationed at Pirakata are Subrata Gupta, MD, WBIDC and Revenue Secretary C M Bachawat.

The two other secretaries who will be stationed at Kantapahari from July 3 are K Sathiavasan, principal secretary, PWD, and Ajit Bardhan, director, ESI. The senior bureaucrats will be there for six weeks after which they will be replaced by another group of officers. “After two weeks, we will make an assessment and if necessary, it will be carried further,” Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen said.

With the reports submitted by these officers, along with the reports of the DMs of Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore, the districts affected by Maoist menace, a final package will be prepared by the chief minister for the total development of the area.

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