Operation Green Hunt

Operation Green Hunt
	Part of Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Date	September 2009 – present; (15 years and 9 months)
Location	Red Corridor
Status	Ongoing
Belligerents
Government of India; Paramilitary forces; Central Reserve Police Force; State Armed Police Forces; Indian Armed Forces; Ministry of Home Affairs; Ministry of External Affairs;	Communist Party of India (Maoist); People's Liberation Guerrilla Army;
Commanders and leaders
Droupadi Murmu; Narendra Modi; Amit Shah; S. Jaishankar; Anil Chauhan; Manoj Pande; R. Hari Kumar; Vivek Ram Chaudhari; Rajnath Singh; Giridhar Aramane; Former Pratibha Patil ; Pranab Mukherjee ; Ram Nath Kovind ; Manmohan Singh ; P. Chidambaram ; Sushilkumar Shinde ; S. M. Krishna ; Salman Khurshid ; Sushma Swaraj ; A. K. Antony ; Arun Jaitley ; Manohar Parrikar ; Nirmala Sitharaman ; Pradeep Kumar ; Shashi Kant Sharma ; R. K. Mathur ; G. Mohan Kumar ; Sanjay Mitra ; Ajay Kumar ; Bipin Rawat ; Deepak Kapoor ; V. K. Singh ; Bikram Singh ; Dalbir Singh Suhag ; Bipin Rawat ; Manoj Mukund Naravane ; Nirmal Kumar Verma ; Devendra Kumar Joshi ; Robin K. Dhowan ; Sunil Lanba ; Pradeep Vasant Naik ; Norman Anil Kumar Browne ; Arup Raha ; Birender Singh Dhanoa ; R. K. S. Bhadauria ;	Ganapathy; Anand †; Kosa †; Ankit Pandey; Kishenji †; Charu Majumdar (POW); Kanu Sanyal (POW); Jangal Santhal (POW); Sabyasachi Panda (POW); Prashant Bose (POW); Ashutosh Tudu (POW); Yalavarthi Naveen Babu †; Narmada Akka †; Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee (POW); Deo Kumar Singh †; Milind Teltumbde †; Jagdish Mahto †; Subrata Dutta †; Mahendar Singh †; Anil Baruah †; Shankar Rao †; Vinod Gawde †; Lalitha †;
Strength
Paramilitary forces:; 80,000 + 10,000 + 10,000; Central Reserve Police Force:; 7,000 (April 2010); State Armed Police Forces:; 200,000 (September 2013); Special Operation Group:; Unknown; Naga Regiment:; 2,000 (August 2014); Greyhounds:; Unknown; Indian Air Force:; Mi-17 and Mi-17V-5 helicopters + 12 searcher tactical drones;	People's Liberation Guerrilla Army:; 11,500 (August 2013); 8,000 – 9,000 (September 2013); People's Militia:; 38,000 (August 2013);
Casualties and losses
1,435 killed	According to India:; 2,266 killed; 9,714 surrendered; 10,181 arrested
	2,319 civilians killed

Operation Green Hunt is the name used by the Indian media to describe the "all-out offensive by paramilitary forces and the states forces" against the Naxalites.

The term was coined by the Chhattisgarh police officials to describe one successful drive against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the state. It was erroneously used by the media to describe the wider anti-Naxalite operations; the government of India does not use the term "Operation Green Hunt" to describe its anti-Naxalite offensive.