<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, seven out of the fifteen Left Wing Extremism- affected districts have not reported any naxal violence last year. Giving this information through a written reply in Lok Sabha yesterday, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said that the Union Government has released more than 156 crore rupees to Odisha as special Central assistance under the Security Related Expenditure Scheme, SRE, since 2017-18.</span>