Malkangiri: The Border Security Force (BSF) has six COBs encircling the Tulasi Reserve Forest area in Odisha’s Malkangiri district to carry out calibrated and effective domination to curb the Naxalism in this Maoist-infested region.
The BSF further extended its deployment in the Tulasi Dongri region on April 23 and established a new Coy Operating Base named COB Tulasi close to the Odisha -Chhattisgarh border under the overall responsibility of the Second Battalions of BSF. Shailendra Kumar Sinha, Deputy Inspector General, BSF Malkangiri sector, inaugurated COB Tulasi on Sunday morning, in presence of Manoj Karki, Commandant Second Battalion of BSF and Sh Nitesh Wadhwani, SP Malkangiri; Subhanjan Mohapatra, DC (G), FGT Malkangiri; Tumesh S Samarath, Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat Temurpalli, and other BSF officials.
The national flag was unfurled and villagers at village Tulasi under Gram Panchayat. A large crowd from nearby villages namely Tulasi, Cherkotla, Kirmiti, Gogapadar, Kotapadar, and Daldali gathered near the newly established base on this occasion and welcomed BSF troops warm-heartedly. A feast was organised at the venue by BSF for all the villagers to commemorate this occasion. Clothes, medicines, and other items of daily requirement were also distributed among the locals.
Establishment of COB-Tulasi in the interior pockets, in the bordering area of Odisha -Chhattisgarh is a milestone to execute various developmental works, providing government aid to the locals and sanitise the area from the grip of Maoists and their activities for the gross benefits of the inhabitants in this region.
