Union Home Ministry's budgetary provisions have been pegged at over Rs 83,000 for the next fiscal, a hike of 11 per cent over 2016-17, with a special emphasis being laid on improving infrastructure of police forces.
Delhi Police, which maintains law and order in the national capital, will walk away with a major chunk of Rs 439 crore earmarked for augmenting its infrastructure facilities.
Over 100 per cent jump has been made in Rs 313 crore allocation under National Emergency Response System--which aims at rolling out pan-India single emergency number-112, for all kinds of emergencies and distress calls from across the country.
The Home Ministry has got Rs 83,823.30 crore for 2017-18 which is 11.24 per cent more than Rs 75,355.48 crore for 2016-17. There has been a significant increase in outlay for various schemes of the Ministry including a whopping Rs 4,008.06 crore, 33 per cent up from Rs 3,012.98 crore, allocation for building projects of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Central Police Organisations.
In the budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament, an allocation of Rs 1,220 crore was made under security related expenditure schemes for Jammu and Kashmir, North East and Left-Wing Extremism affected states.
A total of Rs 54,985.11 crore has been allocated to seven paramilitary forces as against about Rs 52,443 crore for the ongoing fiscal.
Among them, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), deployed for internal security, action against Maoists and operations against militants, has been earmarked the highest at Rs 17,868.53 crore.
Border Security Force (BSF), which guards Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh borders, will get Rs 15,569.11 crore while Central Industrial Security Force, responsible for security of country's airports, nuclear installations, key government buildings and private entities, has been allocated Rs 6,686.25 crore.
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), tasked with protecting the Sino-Indian border, has got an outlay of Rs 4,824.31 crore and Assam Rifles, deployed in Indo-Myanmar border and dealing with insurgents in the north east, will get Rs 4,801.84 crore.
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which guards the Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bhutan border, has been earmarked Rs 4,320.67 crore while National Security Guard (NSG), the anti-terror commando force, got an allocation of Rs 816.10 crore.
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