In order to give a boost to anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh's worst affected areas, the Centre has sanctioned additional deployment of 5,000 troops of mountain-warfare trained Indo-Tibetan Border Police in the state.

Officials said five battalions of the Sino-India border guarding force will soon take positions in Bastar, Narayanpur, Rajnandgaon and Kondagaon districts of the state which have witnessed maximum violence in the recent past in the entire Left Wing Extremism hit areas of the country.

With this, the total deployment of central security forces including CRPF and Border Security Force will come to about 40,000 personnel in the central Indian state. According to the new blueprint for operations, officials said, two ITBP units will be based in Narayanpur and one each in Rajnandgaon, Kondagaon and the notorious 'Keshkal' valley in Bastar district of the state.

All these districts are in the southern part of the Chhattisgarh and figure under the LWE affected regions. "The fresh deployments have been sanctioned recently and the forces are expected to take position after monsoon.

The new ITBP units will work to either bolster the forces already present in these areas or take over the task from CRPF like in the 'Keshkal' valley area," they said.