CRPF for allowing men to keep families in area of posting

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is working on a new deployment policy under which its officers and jawan, who are fighting against Naxals and militants, will be able to keep their families with them, a move that will help the paramilitary force allay stress in hard areas.

The force has submitted a fresh rotation policy proposal to the Union Home Ministry so that it can effectively move its battalions from hard areas like anti-Naxal operations theatre to regular law and order duties which <g data-gr-id="17">is</g> expected to allay the stress on the force.

"It is a fact that CRPF with over 80 per cent of deployment in active theatres gets <g data-gr-id="20">lesser</g> share of rest and recuperation compared to other forces," CRPF Director General Prakash Mishra said.

He said that ideally, 50 per cent of the men should be rotated from hard areas to soft areas.

“The government is also seized of the matter and we expect that the share of combat stress would be rationalised so that we could have a better rotation policy as well. This will act as a great motivation for the jawans as they would also get an opportunity to keep their families with them for some time. At present, our jawans hardly get any opportunity to keep their families with them,” Mishra said.