Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 1: Director-General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh today chaired a welfare meeting at Armed Police Complex Zewan in which Commandants of different Armed Battalions and IRP participated.
The meeting was attended by ADGP CID J&K Dr B Srinivas, ADGP Coordination, PHQ AK Choudhary, ADGP Armed, J&K SJM Gillani, ADGP (Hqrs) PHQ AG Mir, ADGP (SHRC) J&K, Mohammad Sulaiman Salaria, IGP (Pers) PHQ J.P. Singh, IGP Armed Kashmir Vijay Kumar, Director SSG, J&K Surinder Gupta, MD Police Housing Corporation J&K S Ahfadul Mujtaba and Director Anti-Corruption Bureau, J&K Anand Jain.
In the meeting, DGP advised the Commandants to look after the welfare needs of the jawans and their families. Referring to the recent Central Welfare Committee meeting the DGP said that the various decisions such as enhancing the special welfare relief for the NoKs of the deceased police personnel have been enhanced from Rs 15 lakhs to Rs 20 lakhs and for SPOs from Rs 2.50 lakhs to Rs 5.00 lakhs and also other decisions have been implemented.
During the meeting, ADGP Armed, IGP Armed Kashmir and all the Commandants briefed the DGP regarding working and nature of duties including a large deployment for yatra duties, apart from law and order and other duties on day to day basis.
DGP said that the welfare of officers and jawans is always on their top priority and all genuine issues are being taken up with Government. It is a matter of great satisfaction that the Government is equally concerned and sympathetic to all the genuine requirements put forth by PHQ which are considered on priority basis. In the present case the second enhancement of hardship allowance has come just within a few months of the earlier. Ration money allowance has also been stepped up after the earlier hike just a couple of years ago.
Meanwhile, DGP Dilbag Singh has sanctioned retirement gift of Rs 47.85 lakh in favour of 64 personnel of J&K Police on their retirement from the service. The gift sanctioned out of Contributory Police Welfare Fund is a welfare gesture for one gazetted officer, 48 non-gazetted officers and 15 lower subordinates of the organization.
Retirement gift of Rs 75,000 each has been sanctioned in favour of 63 personnel who have retired in the month of June and July this year and Rs 60,000 has been sanctioned for one personnel who retired from service voluntarily in the month of April 2019 i.e before the implementation of 14th Central Police Welfare Committee meeting decision under which the retirement gift was enhanced from Rs 60,000 to Rs 75000 per head.
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