CM announces sops for policemen

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, October 21

Chief Minister Harish Rawat today sanctioned Rs 6 crore for the Police Training Cente at Narendra Nagar and Rs 7 crore for residential quarters for policemen. He also sanctioned Rs 1,200 as dress allowance per year for Class-IV police personnel. He made this announcements at Police Commemoration Day celebrations at the Police Lines here.

Rawat said sufficient funds would be provided for procuring new equipment and gadgets for upgrading the State Disaster Response Force and other cells of the police department. He sanctioned Rs 300 per day as allowance for policemen deployed at an altitude above 9,000 feet in Garhwal and Kumaon.

He said vehicle allowance of Rs 1,200 per month would be given to head constables. The government was planning to open new police stations across the state. Sub-Inspector Manish Rawat had been promoted to the rank of Inspector for his commendable performance in the Rio Olympics.

He said a sports control board had been formed to motivate policemen to participate in the national and international sporting events. Women Sub-Inspectors had been recruited with an aim to post at least one at every police station across the state.

Earlier, Rawat paid homage to 10 policemen who had laid down their lives while performing duty. He said police personnel had played a pivotal role in the rescue operations post-natural disaster. DGP MA Ganpathy said 10 jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force had laid down their lives during the Chinese aggression in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on October 21, 1959. He said 431 police personnel had sacrificed their lives in the country in the last one year.

MP Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah, Cabinet ministers Preetam Singh and Dinesh Agarwal, MLAs Lalit Farswan and Raj Kumar and Chief Secretary Shatrughan Singh attended the function.