The school will be set up at Salua in West Midnapore on a plot where the headquarters of the Eastern Frontier Rifles is located. “We have got one,” said Home Secretary Samar Ghosh.

In fact, after the requests from the state Home

Secretary and the Chief Secretary fell on deaf ears,

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee took up the matter with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in June-end.

“We requested for three such schools in West Bengal. The two other schools were proposed to be located in Darjeeling and Bankura. We hope we will get the sanction for the other two schools very soon,” said a senior Home Department official.

The memorandum of understanding with the Central government for this project, which will be operational next year, will be signed next week, he said.

Once the school is operational, the state government will no longer have to send its jawans for training to anti-insurgency schools in other states like Orissa, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh or Meghalaya.

Initially 600 persons from the state and the Kolkata Police will be trained and later deployed in LWE-affected districts of Bankura, West Midnapore and Purulia. The Army and para-military force officers will be recruited as trainers, said the official.