Gaya, July 25: The Maoists are planning to spread their tentacles in urban areas after years of creating terror in rural pockets.

At a high-level meeting of senior Maoist leaders held recently, a plan has been chalked out to re-organise the organisational set-up of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). There would be separate set-up that would look after the affairs of rural as well as the urban areas respectively. A source in the rebel group said the new plan for urban areas would be effective from Independence Day, which the Maoists observe as “black day”.

According to the plan chalked out for urban areas, there will be separate area committee, sub-zone, zone, regional and the special area committee. The central committee of the outfit will also have a separate in-charge for the urban affairs. Fresh appointment of the in-charge and the members of these committees will be made shortly, the source added.

According to sources, the committees constituted for urban affairs will hold meetings to discuss the public problems in the urban areas. One of the prominent issues will be rehabilitation of the population spending their lives on footpath.