India, Nov. 8 -- The CRPF has completed 12 consecutive months without an operational fatality, the first such period in 47 years, Director General G.P. Singh told The Sunday Guardian.

On 6 April 2010, 76 security personnel, including 75 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, were killed when Maoists ambushed a security-force patrol in Tadmetla village of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district. One of the deadliest attacks in the history of India's fight against Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), the ambush exposed the vulnerabilities of security forces operating in Maoist strongholds, where insurgents had the advantage of terrain, local intelligence and the ability to plan largescale attacks.

Sixteen years later, the force has reached a mile...