No less worrying is the Naxalite problem. Although the Home Ministry claims that the total number of incidents (January-July 2006) have gone down to 930 as compared to 1039 (January-July, 2005), the number of casualties increased from 407 to 487 during the same period. The agenda paper says Naxalites are now organising themselves on military lines, citing examples of the raids in Jehanabad ( November 13, 2005), Giridih (February 9, 2006), Udaygiri (March 24, 2006) and Chhattisgarh (March 12, 2006). The Ministry admits that Naxalites used a light machine gun mounted on a bus in the Eraborre massacre in which 34 Salwa Jadum volunteers were killed.

The Home Ministry, while patting itself, has even praised the Salwa Judum for its sustained anti-Naxalite campaign. The paper records that the state worst affected by Naxalism is Chhattisgarh but the figures of violence have come down since last year.