Jammu : Director General J&K Police Dilbag Singh on Friday sanctioned Rs 15.11 lakh in favour of 35 wards of slain police personnel. He also sanctioned scholarship amounting to Rs 5.15 lacs in favour of 103 wards of serving/retired police personnel.
According to a statement issued from Police Media Centre, PHQ J&K, the reimbursement of educational expenses included expenses of wards of martyrs on tuition fee, transportation charges, books/stationery and uniforms for the academic session 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22. The DGP, while encouraging and appreciating the hard work of the wards of Police personnel who have excelled in class 10th annual examination during the academic session 2021-2022, sanctioned 4.88 lacs in favour of 100 meritorious wards of serving Police personnel. Among these 6000 each have been sanctioned in favour of forty-four wards who have secured 90% and above marks and 4000 each have been sanctioned in favour of 56 wards who have secured 80% and above marks. Besides he also sanctioned scholarship in favour of 03 wards of retired police personnel who have secured more than 80% marks in the annual examination of class 12th and in Post-graduation examinations. The amount has been sanctioned out of the Central Police Welfare Fund. Police said that the PHQ J&K has been sanctioning scholarships, rewards, welfare loan/ relief for police personnel, wards of martyred and serving/retired Police personnel under different schemes.
