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Cops to be insured to fight naxals

The state had decided to provide an insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh to each police personnel deployed in the naxal affected areas.

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Rs 10 lakh will be provided to police deployed in naxal-affected areas

PATNA: Alarmed by the sudden spurt in naxal violence against the police in which many cops had been killed and the resultant resentment among the police force, the state had decided to provide an insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh to each police personnel deployed in the naxal affected areas.

This insurance cover would be in addition to the prevailing practise of paying Rs 10 lakh as ex-gratia amount by the state to the dependents of each policeman killed in extremist violence.

Director General of Police Ashish Ranjan Sinha confirmed that the police personnel deployed in all the 14 naxal affected districts of the state would soon get this insurance cover. Sinha was already negotiating with four different insurance companies and was quite hopeful of finalising the terms of the scheme very soon.

The policemen serving in the Special Task Force (STF) already have this kind of insurance cover, Sinha added. Bihar’s Principal Secretary (Home) Afzal Amanullah told DNA that expenditure incurred on paying premiums for this insurance scheme would also be shared by the centre as part of their expenditure on internal security.

Amanullah had already talked about the state’s plans to provide insurance cover to the policemen serving in naxal affected areas with the mandarins of Union Ministry of Home Affairs. The MHA officials had accepted the  proposal.

The recent killing of five policemen in Rohtas in course of simultaneous naxal raids on two police pickets and the killing of another cop by the ultras in Jamui just a couple of days earlier had sparked strong resentment among the police force.

Agitated jawans had brought the bodies of their slain collegues to the police headquarters and gheraoed the DGP under the leadership of Bihar Policemen’s Association leaders. They were demanding adequate compensation for the family members of the slain cops besides proper infrastructure at all the police stations and pickets in naxal areas.

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