After mid-day published a series of ground reports in April, highlighting the core welfare issues in tribal areas of Gadchiroli, Deepak Kesarkar, State Minister for Home (Rural), Finance and Planning, spoke to mid-day about planning new welfare schemes. He said, "In the coming weeks, the government will focus more on Gadchiroli.

In the wake of the recent IED blast (in which 16 people lost their lives), we are using the police machinery to ensure that welfare schemes reach the maximum tribal peoples living deep in the forest. Today, other than the police department, no other government department dares to go there. Secondly, we are going to use all strategies to come down heavily on Naxals and uproot them completely from Maharashtra."