Question: Name the joint operation which has been recently in news, started by India’s paramilitary forces and the state’s forces against the Naxalites?
(a) Green Hunt
(b) Red Hunt
(c) Grey Hunt
(d) All of these
Ans(a)
Related facts:
- Operation Green Hunt is the name used by the Indian media to describe the “all-out offensive” by India’s paramilitary forces and the state’s forces against the Naxalites.
- The term was coined by the Chhattisgarh police officials to describe one successful drive against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the state and later used by the Indian media to describe the “all-out offensive” by India’s paramilitary forces and the state’s forces against the Naxalites.
- The operation begun in November 2009 along five states in the “Red Corridor”.
- It is an operation implemented by the Central Reserve Police Force and the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) plays lead role in the operations.
- In this operation unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellite phones are being used.
- This was in the news in December 2014, when maoists attack on security forces in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh in the opposition of Green Hunt operation.
- On January 8, 2016 the central government paramilitary force resume the operations because of which it is recently in news.
- The campaign is being run in the red corridor area which includes Chhattisgarh, Seemandhra, Telangana, Orissa, West Bengal and the northeastern states.
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