India, April 8 -- Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and presented a roadmap, envisaging education hubs, a medical college, irrigation projects, adventure and eco-tourism, including canopy walks and a glass bridge in the jungles, for the erstwhile Maoist stronghold of Bastar, people aware of the matter said.

The Modi-Sai meeting came days after Union home minister Amit Shah told Parliament that the March 31 deadline for ending Left-wing extremism across the country had been met. Shah said 4,839 Maoists surrendered, 706 were killed, and 2,218 were arrested and jailed over the three years of heightened anti-Maoist operations.

For decades, Bastar, Dantewada, Sukma, Bijapur, Narayanpur, Ko...