CHIEF MINISTER Yogi Adityanath on Monday introduced a 70 per cent enhance in uniform allowance, a 25 per cent hike in lodging allowance for police constables residing in barracks and a Rs 10-crore enhance within the finances subsequent fiscal to reinforce coaching, weight loss plan and different amenities for police personnel collaborating in nationwide and worldwide sports activities competitions.
The state authorities will incur an expenditure of Rs 115 crore for these initiatives.
Adityanath additionally introduced a Rs 1,380-crore corpus fund for the maintenance of multi-storeyed police housing and administrative buildings. The CM made these bulletins throughout his handle on the event of Police Commemoration Day.
An approval was granted to levy a proposed price for bills incurred by the police drive throughout worldwide occasions, which will likely be managed by the Director Common of Police and ruled below the proposed corpus fund guidelines.
Earlier, the CM paid homage to police personnel killed within the line of responsibility by providing floral tributes on the Police Shaheed Smarak. He mentioned that monetary help amounting to Rs 36.2 crore has been supplied to the households of 115 martyred police personnel from Uttar Pradesh serving within the Central Paramilitary Forces and the Indian Police Service.
He identified that Rs 3.5 crore was allotted for the welfare and luxury of police personnel posted in a number of districts and Rs 4 crore was earmarked for common welfare initiatives. Moreover, Rs 30.56 lakh was used to settle 2,66 medical reimbursement claims for energetic and retired police personnel and their dependents.
The CM additionally highlighted that Rs 12.6 crore was accepted for 312 medical reimbursement instances exceeding Rs 5 lakh, Rs 5.05 crore as advance loans for the remedy of significant diseases affecting 135 police personnel and their households, and Rs 9.08 crore to assist the dependents of 306 deceased law enforcement officials below the Jeevan Bima Yojana.
Additionally, Rs 31.16 lakh was spent on cashless remedies for police personnel and their dependents, whereas Rs 53.3 lakh in scholarships was awarded to 205 meritorious college students of police households by the Schooling Fund.
Adityanath mentioned that since 2017, over 154,000 recruitments have been made throughout numerous positions within the state’s police division, together with greater than 22,000 girls personnel.
Moreover, greater than 141,000 personnel have been promoted to numerous gazetted posts, and at current, the recruitment course of is underway for over 60,000 positions, he knowledgeable.
The Chief Minister highlighted that previously seven years, 17 police personnel have proven extraordinary bravery and made the last word sacrifice, whereas 1,618 officers have been injured within the line of responsibility to uphold the rule of regulation within the state.
To fight crime, motion has been taken towards 77,811 people below the Gangster Act. Efficient prosecution in 68 instances involving mafia and felony gangs has led to life sentences for 31 mafia members and 66 of their associates, with two people receiving loss of life sentences.
To reinforce girls’s security, devoted girls’s beats and assist desks had been arrange in each police station throughout the state.
The occasion was attended by DGP Prashant Kumar and several other senior officers.