Punjab Government announces Rs 1 cr ex gratia to kin of cops who die on duty

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 20

Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday announced Rs 1 crore ex gratia to the family of Punjab police personnel who die in the line of duty. The CM announced this while virtually addressing officers and personnel of the Punjab Police. Chief Secretary Anirudh Tiwari, Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister A Venu Prasad, Principal Secretary, Home, Anurag Verma and Director General of Police (DGP) VK Bhawra were also present in the meeting.

Addressing over 23,000 police personnel of all ranks, the Chief Minister directed them to adopt zero tolerance to gangsters, drugs, terrorism, illegal mining and corruption.

Police personnel of all ranks joined the meeting from as many as 933 video conferencing locations established by Punjab Police at the state police headquarters, all district police offices, police stations, training centres, special task force (STF) office, intelligence offices and Saanjh Kendras among others. This is for the first time in Punjab that the CM addressed such a large number of cops.

Assuring all police officers there would be no interference in functioning of the police, CM Mann exhorted cops to perform their duties with absolute professionalism and integrity. In another decision, the CM also announced a hike in the Police Welfare Fund from Rs 10 crore to Rs 15 crore from this financial year. —

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