The operations will reportedly begin soon. Nevertheless, they will come a cropper if security forces are not in adequate numbers. The home ministry should expedite the rationalisation of paramilitary deployment in Naxal-affected areas vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir. Also, since such largescale operations need the collaboration of state police forces, affected states must immediately equip their policemen who lack the firepower and knowledge of terrain to match the Maoists. As India prepares to vanquish the Maoists, it must also plug holes that enable them to procure arms from its neighbours.
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