Jammu: Director-General Police Dilbag Singh has sanctioned rupees 2.20 crore as Special Welfare Relief.
In a statement issued on Wednesday police said “the special welfare relief of rupees 20 lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of dependents/legal heirs of deceased personnel Sub Inspector Amar Singh, Sub Inspector Bashir Ahmad, HC Nishat Ahmad, HC Vinod Kumar, SgCt.(Dvr) Gulzar Ahmad, Sgct. Madan Gopal, Constable Hilal Ahmad, Constable Ramesh Lal and Ajay Kumar, Follower Ravi Kumar and Follower Ali Mohammad”.
Saying that out of this amount rupees one lakh each was already paid to the families/NoKs for performing the last rites as immediate relief by the PHQ through their concerned units, the police statement said “financial assistance has been given out of Contributory Police Welfare Fund”.
Police in it’s statement further said “DGP has also sanctioned rupees 30 lakh in favour of NoKs of six deceased SPOs”, adding that “five lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of families/ legal heirs of deceased SPOs Kewal Krishan, Abdul Hamid, Chain Singh, Mohammad Ganie, Babi Kumar and Lakhmi Chand who expired due to illness while engaged with the department”. Stating that out of this amount, rupees 50 thousand, each was already paid to the families/NoKs for performing the last rites as immediate relief by the PHQ through their concerned units, police in it’s statement said “the financial assistance has been given out of Contributory Police Welfare Fund of SPOs”.
DGP, according to the statement, has also sanctioned Rupees five lakh as ex-gratia relief in favour of NoKs of martyr ASI/GD Naresh Umrao Badole of 117 Bn CRPF, who was killed in a militant attack.
“Police Headquarters is running many schemes for the welfare of its personnel and their families”, the statement reads, adding that “there are also schemes for the wards of Police personnel and SPOs. Besides, there are schemes for the NoKs of police personnel killed in action, their wards and also for the retired Police personnel and their spouses”.
