Pay More for Paramilitary Deployment: Ministry of Home Affairs

New Delhi: States and union territories will have to pay around 10 percent more each year till 2024 to secure the services of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Rapid Action Force (RAF) as the Ministry of Home Affairs has reviewed the policy on fixation of deployment charges for various duties.

The Home Ministry, however, makes exception for the northeastern states, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Left Wing Extremism-affected states, asking them only to pay 10 per cent of the total charges of CAPF deployment. The ministry urged states and union territories to “ensure necessary heads are opened in their budget, if not existing, to facilitate regular payment of deployment charges”.

The ministry has also asked to rationalise the deployment charges of CAPFs, which comprises of - Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Assam Rifles, National Security Guard and Sashastra Seema Bal. Apart from counter-insurgency operations in troubled states and conflict zones, states ask MHA to provide paramilitary forces for various law and order, rescue and relief operations and security arrangements. “A comprehensive review of existing policy was conducted in the ministry and it has been decided to fix the rates of CAPFs deployment charges per battalion - comprising of seven companies - in addition to the actual cost of transportation or movement of the battalion for next five years,” sources in the ministry said. As per revised charges, for 2019-2020, the ministry will recover Rs 13.70 crore per annum for a battalion deployed in normal areas, Rs 25.18 crore per annum for high risk and moderate hardship zone and Rs 34.26 per annum from high risk and high hardship zone. In 2020-2021, the ministry would recover Rs 15.40 crore per annum for normal areas, Rs 26.88 crore per annum for high risk and moderate hardship zones and 35.96 per annum from high risk and high hardship zones. (IANS)

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