PARAMILITARY FORCES REAL ROLE MODELS

The circumstances in which security personnel work and protect the lives of people, actually they are the real role models; we are not,” said Gautam Gambhir, skipper of Kolkata Knight Riders. The KKR players were in the CRPF 65th battalion camp, Tulsi Baradera, Mandir Hasaud, located on the outskirts of Raipur. They spent about one and a half hours with the jawans Tuesday afternoon. Besides Gambhir, pacer Brett Lee, all rounder Ryan ten Doeschate, batsman Yusuf Pathan and Manvinder Bisla also visited the camp.

The players also interacted with CRPF men. Gambhir described them as real heroes and said that the hard work the CRPF men were doing leaving their families behind is impossible for any one of us to do. Replying  a question of paramilitary personnel about inspiration and people behind his success, Gambhir said, “I always wanted to do something for my country whether it is through sports or the way you people are doing. My family members also supported me much but I did not have any role model.”

 To another query that how would he face his Delhi friend Virendra Sehwag when they would meet on Wednesday, Gambhir said  there is no one friend in the field as both of us is playing for two opposite sides and we both have to win.

Gambhir was of view that better cricket infrastructure should be created in small cities also to groom cricketing talents. He said that an international standard cricket stadium will definitely bring Raipur to global level.

Earlier CRPF IG (Ops- Chhattisgarh) Zulfiquar Hasan said that there are few similarities between cricketers and CRPF men.

Cricketers, play one-day and five-day test matches and fight to win the matches for the nation, in the similar fashion jawans conduct one day, two-day, three-day, five days operations to protect the nation. In the fag end of the visit, the players also inspected the weapons of CRPF and got themselves acquainted with their usage. Latest weapon like X-95, UBGL, LMG, Autofall, SLR, Carbine, AK-47, Rifle Grenade and 51 mm Mortar grabbed the attention of cricket stars.

At the outset, DIG (Administration) Pradeep Chandra, DIG (Provisioning) D Bhattacharya, DIG CRPF Raipur Range Retired Brigadeir Arun Bali,  DIG Bilaspur Range V K Chouhan Commandant 65th Bn SK Singh, Commandant (Intelligence) R K Singh, Commandant 62 Bn Rajiv Kumar Singh and other senior personnel were also present.

SOP violation allowed if anti-Naxal ops demand: CRPF DG

New Delhi: The CRPF top boss Thursday said he has asked his troops deployed in anti-Naxal operations to even go to the extent of "violating" the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) if such a diversion in rules is required for operational efficiency and safety of the men.

Dismissing suggestions that there was a contravention of set SOPs by his personnel during the March 11 Naxal ambush in Chhattiagarh's Sukma which killed 11 CRPF men and four others, CRPF Director General Dilip Trivedi told PTI that the incident will not deter the paramilitary, and the paramilitary force will be more "steadfast" in deploying their operational tactics in beating the Naxals.

"The top brass of the force cannot take away the initiative of the field commander. The commander on ground has to deploy his hunch and instinct while he is out in an operational area. I have told them that you can even violate the SOPs, provided that is in the interest of the operations and safety of troops," Trivedi said, a day after he returned to the national capital after touring the ambush area in south Bastar's Tongpal for an on-spot assessment.

He said the SOPs, in an operational area, are meant to be flexible keeping in mind the emerging and immediate threat and dynamic activity on the ground.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) chief said the force headquarters has issued some fresh directives to commanders while operating in the Naxal affected areas.

"I will not go into the details of our operational tactics but yes we have told our men and officers that we should break the monotonous drills while rendering routine duties like that of road opening and frequently visiting an area.

"We have told them to keep flexibility in their operations so that their movement remains unknown till the last moment," the DG said.

Terming the latest ambush a "planned attack" by close to 200 Naxals, Trivedi said the Naxals used an assortment of looted police weapons like LMGs and SLRs to inflict causalities on the 45-personnel strong joint forces squad which was out early morning on Tuesday in one the most notorious Maoist violence affected areas of the state, which is in the 'Jeeram Ghati' area.

This is the same place where the ultras had killed the top leadership of state Congress last year in May.

Source: zeenews india 13/03/2014