India, May 19 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday inaugurated the first security camp-turned-public service centre in a remote village in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, heralding a new development chapter in the State recently declared Naxal violence-free after decades of extremism.

The minister said 70 out of the total 196 security forces camps located in the erstwhile Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas of the State will be transformed into 'Seva camps' (public service centres) over the next one-and-a-half years.

Officials said that the event heralds the launch of the Bastar 2.0 road map, where security camps will be "repurposed" for public welfare utility works, an essential plan of action of the Union and State Governm...