India weighs future of anti-Maoist security apparatus

After declaring its Left-wing extremism target met by March 31, India faces the question of what happens to a vast counter-insurgency machine. Official figures cite 361 security camps, 586 fortified police stations, over 12,000 km of roads and 8,500 mobile towers. The likely model is a gradual thinning, not abandonment, with assets repurposed for permanent policing.