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To eradicate left-wing extremism successful the State, the Odisha Government has launched a revised Maoist surrender and rehabilitation argumentation by enhancing fiscal assistance, rewards for surrendered firearms and others.
Odisha's Home Department, successful a notification, said, "The nonsubjective of the surrender and rehabilitation argumentation is to incorporate and eradicate near helping extremism successful the State by weaning distant the hardcore LWE cadres. The argumentation besides aims astatine ensuring that Naxalites, who surrender, bash not revert to extremism by providing them with gainful employment and entrepreneurial opportunities."
According to a notification issued connected Thursday (November 27, 2025), the surrendered cadres volition beryllium classified into 2 categories, class A and B. High-ranking cadres specified arsenic Central committee secretaries, Central subject committee chiefs, politburo members, Central committee members, State committee members oregon equivalent rank, peculiar zonal committee members, and determination committee members travel nether class A.
Similarly, the little fertile cadres, including divisional committee secretaries, subject platoon commanders, divisional committee members, country committee secretaries, and country committee members are portion of class B.
As per the caller notification, the revised scheme, fiscal assistance has been raised from the earlier ceiling of ₹2.5 lakh to ₹5 lakh for class A. An assistance of ₹2.5 lakh volition beryllium provided to class B cadres. Rewards for surrendered weapons person besides been substantially increased, it said.
If the Maoist surrenders with weapons successful moving condition, unrecorded ammunition, and explosives, he/she volition beryllium entitled to the benefits of enhanced fiscal assistance. He/she volition avail ₹4.95 lakh assistance if surrender with airy instrumentality weapon (LMG), AK-47 firearm (₹3.3 lakh from ₹10,000 earlier), SLR/Insas firearm (₹1.65 lakh from earlier ₹10,000), and .303 firearm (₹82,500 from earlier ₹5,000).
Active surrendered Naxalites carrying a reward of ₹5 lakh oregon much volition beryllium fixed an further lump sum magnitude of ₹10 lakh. “This magnitude volition beryllium deposited arsenic a fixed deposit successful immoderate slope by the territory SP successful the sanction of the surrendered naxalite, and the involvement magnitude received from it volition beryllium fixed to them,” the revised argumentation said.
“After a play of 3 years from the day of fixed deposit, this magnitude volition beryllium fixed successful lump sum to the surrendered naxalite, taxable to satisfactory behaviour and behaviour of the surrendered naxal, to beryllium decided by the Surrender and Rehabilitation Committee connected the proposal of territory SP,” it added.
