Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday (December 13, 2025) said that India stood on the verge of eliminating Maoism by March 2026 and that the government has now set its sights on making Chhattisgarh’s Bastar the most developed tribal division in the country by 2030.
“Our resolve is to free the entire land of India, and especially the Bastar region, from Maoism. But we won’t stop there. I declare before all of you today that Kanker, Kondagaon, Bastar, Sukma, Bijapur, Dantewada, and Narayanpur — these seven districts of the Bastar division—will become the most developed tribal districts in the country by December 2030,” he said during his speech at the concluding ceremony of Bastar Olympics.
Bastar Olympics is an annual mega sports event in Jagdalpur in which participants from all seven districts of the region compete in various sports events. This year it also saw participation from surrendered Maoists.
Asserting that peace only can pave the road for development, he laid out the contours of the 2030 vision which he said would include basic amenities, expanding services and specialised schemes.
“..every household will have access to basic amenities, every village will be connected by roads, every village will have electricity, banking facilities will be available within a 5-km radius, and most importantly, both the central and state governments of the Bharatiya Janata Party will work to establish a network of Primary Health Centers (PHCs) and Community Health Centers (CHCs),” he said.
