Terrorism affected 161 Police districts in India in 2019, according to report:
Posted on January 5th, 2021
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Terrorism affected 161 Police Districts across the country, especially Maoist-hit states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, terror-hit Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and other Northeastern states in 2019, according to inputs submitted to Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) organisation in its Data on Police Organisations-2019.
However, there was a slight fall in the number of terrorism or extremism affected districts in the country in 2019 compared to 174 in 2018, the UMHA’s focus is to reduce the number in 2021. Punjab News Express, January 3, 2021. SOUTH ASIAN DEFENSE REVIEW