CRPF ASKS FOR RS 1,100 CRORE AS STATE’S SHARE

With the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) facing a tough time due to acute drainage of resources, it has slapped a bill of whopping Rs 1,100 crore on the Odisha Government to pay its share of expenses for the security duties.

While the State Government is asking for more battalions of Central paramilitary forces to handle the Maoist menace, the CRPF authorities have demanded this huge payment.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been opposing such move by the CRPF on the plea that it is a joint effort by the State and Centre to combat the threat of internal security by the Leftwing Extremists (LWE)s.

While the Union Government deploys Army Battalions in Jammu & Kashmir, it never slaps any pay-up slips for security duties, why the CRPF is allowed to ask for funding from other States, wondered a senior State Government official.

Odisha is having 17 battalions of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (CAPF) consisting CRPF, CoBRA and BSF deployed in the Maoist regions. The State is asking for more Central forces on the borders of Chhattisgarh.

Two additional battalions of CAPF are required for matching deployment in Nuapada, Bargarh and Balangir districts and effective anti-Maoist Operations. But the CRPF authorities have been sending constant reminders for payment to be made through the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

The State Government feels that it has hardly any scope to pay the amount as the Union Government has been sending the CAPF without any such prior stipulations, said a senior State officer.

However sources in the CRPF said the States are supposed to pay 60 per cent of the expenditure incurred and they are just not fulfilling their commitments, for which the CRPF is facing acute shortage of funds to carry on its jobs.

Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/crpf-asks-for-rs-1100-crore-as-states-share.html

ABSS offers scholarship to wards of armed security forces

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, June 1: ABSS Institute of Technology, Meerut announced scholarship for the wards of J&K Police, Air Force, Army, BSF, CRPF, ITBP and other central paramilitary forces.

This was stated by Vice Chairman of ABSS Institute of Technology, Meerut, Atul Bhardwaj during a press conference.

He said that the scholarship will be sponsored by Government of India to the students of SC, ST, OBC and minority communities are also being provided by the college.

“Scholarship scheme for Kashmiri migrants, tuition free seats for meritorious students and two tuition free seats for the girls belonging to the martyr families are also being provided by our college”, he maintained.

Bhardwaj further stated that the college was founded in 2007 by the sole motto of imparting quality based technical courses including MTech, BTech, MBA, Bachelor of Management, dual degree courses, integrated technical courses and polytechnic courses. The college is approved by AICTE Ministry of HRD, Government of India and affiliated to UP Technical University, Lucknow, he added.

“We provide 100 per cent job placement assistance to the passed out students. To provide facilities to the J&K students our admission-cum-counselling office functions throughout the year in Rehari, where in depth counselling to the desirous students are being provided on various career courses”, he stated.

Source:  http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/abss-offers-scholarship-wards-security-forces/

EC REMOVES PARAMILITARY FROM VVIP RESIDENCES

Asks Delhi Police to provide security to protected persons

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered the removal of Central paramilitary forces (CPMFs) from the residences of VVIPS in the New Delhi district and has asked Delhi Police to provide security to these protected persons (PPs). Around 1,000 personnel mostly belonging to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were withdrawn on Tuesday and deployed on the poll duty. As a result of the ECI’s diktat CRPF jawans were taken out from the security of at least 67 PPs residing in the Lutyens’ Zone.

This arrangement will be till April 10 when voting takes places in the national Capital for the LS elections. These men will be re-deployed to man the security in and around the residences of the VVIPs but only after April 10. For the time being Delhi Police has been directed to pitch in.

These CRPF personnel have been placed on the disposal of the Delhi Home department and will be deployed in various polling stations in the city. Sources said that the step to withdraw the CRPF personnel from the VVIP security and then deploy them on the poll duty was taken to minimise the posting of Delhi Police personnel in and around polling booths. ECI has ordered the deployment of CPMF jawans along with Delhi Police on the pooling day to ensure that the force behaved impartially and there was no malpractice.

Presence of CPMF personnel is aimed at bringing sanity when Delhiites vote on April 10 to elect seven Members of Parliament (MPs). This will checkmate any attempt to influence the voters once they are inside the premises and also prevent any misadventure if anybody tried to snatch the ballot boxes, the sources added.

A police official said that ECI has sent a communiqué to the Delhi Police officer and asked him to ensure that Delhi Police personnel were posted immediately with the PPs who have been provided security by the CPMF people. Even The personal security officers (PSOs) belonging to the CPMFs have been withdrawn with immediate effect and they have been replaced by Delhi Police personnel.

An official said that these 1,000-odd jawans were imparted training about the electoral process and what they were supposed to do when deployed in and around polling stations. They will be deployed strategically to keep an eye on the imposters and bogus voters and also prevent any unlawful entry inside polling stations.

Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/city/ec-removes-paramilitary-from-vvip-residences.html