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DALTONGANJ: For paramilitary personnel posted in remote areas of Palamu district, turning up at the state health department’s designated Covid-19 vaccination centres means risking their lives. At a time when the state health machinery is inoculating security personnel to prevent them from contracting the life-threatening viral disease, CRPF jawans camping at the forward posts in Left-wing extremism-affected Dagra and Mansurya areas are sitting tight at their posts as heading towards vaccination centres without proper security measures can make them vulnerable to ambush attacks by Maoists.
“Security personnel posted at Dagra cannot move without a road opening party, where armed security personnel sweep their route for dangers such as landmines and ambush attacks,” Palamu SP Sanjeev Kumar said, adding, “We cannot vacate our posts and ferry all our men to vaccination sites for jabs at once. We have to move them in batches.”