Security forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations in various states, including
Chhattisgarh, have decided to get different variants of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) ranging from small drones to long-range surveillance ones.

Forces deployed in Maoist hotbeds of the country have recently begun to pick up ground conversation, movement and pictures with the help of these devices and authorities say they are handy in cases where quick information is needed like the abduction of Sukma district Collector in Chhattisgarh.

'We are now getting an array...a spectrum of medium to long-range  reconnaissance UAVs. While the small ones give the security forces an immediate input of activity happening in the surrounding area, the big UAVs provide you with advanced information about a far away area where a operation is to be launched," a top security official involved in the operations
said.