CRPF to give choice posting to jawans winning gallantry medals

In order to boost morale of its jawans, the CRPF today announced a new policy under which they will get a choice posting as soon as he wins a gallantry medal while taking on Naxals or militants.
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) chief Dilip Trivedi, while honouring gallantry medal winners of the force here, exhorted his personnel and officers to earn more such laurels in the future.
"Ye Dil Mangey Mor! I would want you to earn more gallantry medals than the 71 you brought this year. This is the biggest haul amongst all paramilitary forces. We are completing 75 years of raising this year and it would be befitting if our personnel win 75 or more medals the next year," Trivedi said as he honoured about sixty-four such personnel today.

The DG, after the event, said he made the announcement on the spur of the moment but the new policy will be appreciated by the men and women of the country's largest paramilitary who render hard duties.
"The trooper who wins a gallantry medal will obviously want to take the next posting closer to his home. We would allow him that. After a hard task they need some time with their family. The step is aimed to allow a jawan spend quality time with his family," the DG said.
Trivedi also announced that the officers who win the gallantry medal thrice would be allowed the same privilege.

"We care for the officers of this force too," Trivedi said adding, "but jawans and lower rank officials constitute the backbone of the force hence they have been given the bigger privilege."

The CRPF, thick in action in anti-Naxal operations in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected states, has deployed the largest number of troops, about a lakh, for these duties.
The about three-lakh personnel strong force has been winning the maximum gallantry medals every year as compared to other central forces or state police units even as it has got a good share of military medals in the last over four years.

The force has also recently issued orders, on the directions of the DG, to use the prefix of 'Shaheed' before the name of a personnel killed in action.