NEW DELHI: The Central Reserve Police Force (CROF) has taken to armour plating hundreds of its vehicles and troop carriers in Kashmir by “improvising” with locally available metal sheets, concrete and wooden planks.
The force, which has come under a spate of attacks on its convoys in the Valley in the recent past, had decided to ensure a partial or full bullet-proof armour to its four-wheeled troop carriers.
But, the force faced a glitch, which it is now resolving with a ‘jugaad’.
“We are trying to acquire more bullet-proof vehicles (for deployment in Kashmir). Since, the rate of procurement and procurement through suppliers is a tedious process…We decided to improvise. We have asked our units to use local material and bring in local vendors to do the job,” CRPF Director General R R Bhatnagar told reporters on the eve of the 78th Raising Day of the paramilitary force. (AGENCIES)
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