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Saranda template for 10 Maoist hubs Ranchi, March 4: The Saranda model of development will be replicated in 10 other Naxalite strongholds, the BJP-led state government decided today in a surprising acknowledgement of an idea that was conceived and nursed by its political arch-rival UPA. Chief secretary Rajiv Gauba, who had recently been to Saranda in West Singhbhum, which was once the so-called eastern regional headquarters of the CPI(Maoist), has already held meetings with top CRPF officers to replicate the Saranda Development Plan (SDP) in specifically chosen vulnerable areas (see chart). Chief secretary Rajiv Gauba told The Telegraph that the state would launch an “SDP type of initiative” in at least 10 areas in different districts. A brainchild of former Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, the Rs 249-crore, multi-pronged SDP gave equal weight to security and development in rebel and “cleansed” areas. The SDP apparently works as an idea but needs better implementation. “The same model (SDP) has to be replicated in all the areas where the after-effects of LWE are acute. Respective divisional commissioners, acting as project nodal officers, would draw up elaborate security and development plans,” chief secretary Gauba added.