Ofcourse it should also be made legally binding for such Companies to ensure that they do not cause environmental pollution outside their area of operation and even there, to finally leave the area at least as good, if not better than, as when they commenced operations. Requiring appropriate financial and performance guarantees or collecting an adequate ‘Cess’ on the revenues that can be refundable once they meet their commitment, may be an effective way to ensure proper remedial action as required.

Any armed engagement – war or anti-Naxal / Insurgent activity will be costly in terms of personnel, equipment and time. (See ‘War & Domestic Conflicts – Economics & Costs’).

Hence appropriate expenditure on resettlement and development is likely to be a more economic, practical and quicker solution.

A proper understanding of such costs make it easier to see the economic advantage of building resettlement villages to bring about concentration of population and make it easy for the administration to protect and educate them and encourage activities to bring them into the economic fabric of the Nation and thus win their confidence (such villages could be adopted by Corporates working in that area as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility activities and by the concerned NGO’s).

A comprehensive computerized identity registration system (eg: Aadhar) of all people would permit the Law enforcement agencies to identify unregistered people and seize the Naxals / Insurgents / Terrorists before they can act.

Response to Terrorist Strikes by Terrorists, both foreign and domestic, influenced or sponsored from outside the Country:

“Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.” – Jacques Chirac.

“Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of its realistic goals and its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.” – Jurgen Habermas .

“Fighting Terrorism is like being a ‘Goal Keeper’. You can make a hundred saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you” – Paul Williamson .

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