Page 142 solution

A Page 142 solution needs to be cost effective. FoP is a cost effective holistic solution to the shortages in police manpower and resources, to the gaps in intelligence, motivation and training that enables terrorists and Maoists to gain the upper hand. It wont cost much to conceptually empower all law abiding citizens of a country like India, an estimated 1.1 billion people to lend their moral, material and ground level support to the war being waged by the police and security forces against such nihilistic forces. All it will take is for the Prime Minister and Home Minister to use their access to the mass media to state the nation is going to employ the FOP strategy to take on all antinational forces.

The Naxalites are using a Hearts and Minds strategy to woo and win the alienated citizens to wage a war against the state system. Does the Government have a comparable Hearts and Minds strategy? No, it doesn't and that is where FOP will act as a social empowerment concept, a formula for sharing power and responsibility with the people. It will for one thing prevent or pre-empt more common citizens in affected areas to join the ranks of the naxalites and become canon fodder. It will transform the anti-establishment feeling and prevent the sense of alienation that vulnerable groups like tribals, Adivasis and others who form the "naxal hinterland" are prone to. The fact that they are affiliated with the principal organ for law and order maintenance in the state and country will give them that sense of empowerment.