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NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil has asked his Ministry to change the criteria of designating a district as terrorist-affected because this did not portray the picture accurately. "In a district if a village is affected, would you call the entire district as hit by naxalite violence," he said while refuting his Ministry's statistics that 177 districts in 13 States - nearly one-third of the country - was hit by naxalite violence.

Digressing from his reply on the Mumbai blasts, Mr. Patil said there had been instances of just four or five people dying of naxalite violence in a particular district over several years. "I have told my officials, for god's sake, the evaluation should be done on the basis of police stations. Even that is not correct. In fact, we should go by villages."

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