Overview

• Hemant Soren has formally written to Home Minister Amit Shah seeking a full waiver of the ₹13,299.69 crore billed for CRPF anti-Naxal deployments in Jharkhand.
• He invokes cooperative federalism to frame internal security expenditure as a shared Centre–state duty.
• The CM warns that enforcing the dues would strain the state budget and undermine post-pandemic recovery and climate-affected welfare schemes.
• More than 400 Jharkhand police officers have been killed in decades of operations against Maoist insurgents, underscoring the human cost.
• The Union Home Ministry’s response is pending and could reset future cost-sharing rules for domestic security operations.