Naxal area

NAGPUR: In a bid to reward 105 villages in sensitive areas of Gadchiroli district, residents of which defied Naxal threat and participated in last month’s gram panchayat elections, Gadchiroli collector Dipak Singla has sent a proposal to the state government for granting special incentives to them. The proposal was sent to state home minister Anil Deshmukh, who had earlier suggested rewarding such villages for coming forward to cast vote in the Naxal stronghold. Deshmukh had earlier lauded the spontaneous response of the local population, along with the initiatives of the district administration and district police, for managing to conduct the…