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| Operational training for CRPF personnel | | Paramilitary troops in J&K can't receive mail | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 15: A critical problem confronts paramilitary personnel deployed in the restive State of Jammu and Kashmir. It is officially confirmed that they cannot receive mail from their homes. Reason: Soldiers with the paramilitary forces in J&K do not have any address.
This is also the case with paramilitary personnel working in the hostile environment of the country's northeast region. For undisturbed flow of letters from the homes of paramilitary troops the existence of group centres is a must. It has been estimated that more than 10,000 personnel deployed in counter-insurgency operations in several parts of the country, including Jammu and Kashmir, have no group centres where the letters from the homes of troops could be posted.
Out of the total 176 battalions of CRPF, only 145 battalions have the facility of group centres. As many as 31 CRPF battalions deployed in counter-insurgency operations have no group centres. Hence, paramilitary personnel cannot give a permanent address t th famly mmbers.
Credit goes to the Director-General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for having stirred the Union Home Ministry and efficiently represented the case arising from the perturbation of thousands of soldiers with the paramilitary forces as a result of the non-receipt of letters from their homes. In fact, the CRPF chief, during his meeting with the Minister for Home Affairs, Shivraj Patil, highlighted the psychological aspect of the problem in the wake of no mail to the paramilitary personnel in the absence of group centres.
Shivraj Patil is said to have assured the Director-General of the CRPF that the Home Ministry, having realised the problem, would address it. Equally important subject which was raised by the CRPF chief during his meeting with Patil, related to the 'urgent requirement' of adequate number of mine-proof vehicles and high-tech weapons for the CRPF. Patil has also promised to address the problem, as part of the proposed revamping exercise.
Yet another problem is the outcome of constant deployment of forces, which has obstructed CRPF in giving mandatory operational training to its personnel. The CRPF could give rotational training to its seven per cent personnel only in 2004-2005.
Now the Home Ministry has decided that required operational training will be given to the CRPF personnel every year. This apart, the CRPF soldiers will also be given training at Army training centres. Under the Home Ministry's another decision, two months counter-insurgency training will be given to all battalions of CRPF every year.
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