Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 29: The Director General of Police (DGP), Kuldeep Khoda, today sanctioned scholarships in favour of 57 schoolchildren of deceased police personnel, who laid down their lives for restoring normalcy in the state and protected public property and human lives. These scholarships were sanctioned during the monthly meeting of Police Parivar Fund, held here today at Police Headquarters (PHQ) under the chairmanship of Director General of Police.
Addressing the meeting, Khoda said that it is the prime responsibility of Police Organization to take care of the wards of our colleagues who have sacrificed their precious lives to uphold the tradition of bravery of Jammu and Kashmir Police. He said that the department has taken many steps to provide financial assistance to these wards so that they do not feel themselves deprived. He said that besides providing scholarships, free education is provided to them in Police Public Schools established at Jammu, Srinagar and some other districts in the State. He disclosed that the department is considering some more welfare schemes for the families of police martyrs, serving and retired police personnel.
Giving details, the DGP said that over Rs. 1.51 lakhs have been sanctioned in favour of 45 children of martyred police personnel and 12 children of police personnel who have died due to natural deaths. The scholarships have been sanctioned for the academic year 2009-10. Mr. Khoda said that the scholarships have been sanctioned out of Central Police Welfare Fund in favour of the students studying in various educational institutions in different classes.
The scholarships sanctioned among the wards, whose parents have sacrificed their lives while fighting militancy include Shahid Ali, Rafia Jan, Junaid, Rayees Ahmed, Nusrat Fatima, Rifat Fatima, Sunil Singh, Balbir Singh, Renu Devi, Nasir Hussain, Rahie Hussain, Roonaq Hussain, Nasreena, Nadeem, Junaid Manzoor, Ulfat, Sakshi Panditha, Ashvani, Sheetal, Jamshid, Jehangir Ahmed, Anil Kumar, Rohini Sharma, Mujarib Khan, Tabasum, Mukarib Khan, Shomia Anjum, Homia, Fozia, Reehana kaunsar, Suliman Khan, Imran, Arfana, Rokhsana, Mukhtar Ahmed, Neelofar Jan, Sajad Ahmed, Rauf-ul-Hassan, Sohib Hassan and Raheena Chowdhery.
The scholarships sanctioned in favour of wards of police personnel who died due to natural or accidental deaths while in service include Abid Khaliq, Ummayat Khaliq, Razik Khaliq, Syed Asif Ahmed, Shugfata Bano, Wakir Ahmed Shah, Sainia Kaunsar, Adil Gani, Badil Gani, Imran Khan, Saimaia Akhtar and Ishan Khan.
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