Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 31
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided to provide Rs 15 lakh from the “Bharat Ke Veer” fund to each of the family of those Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) personnel who succumb to Covid-19 while on duty.
Ministry sources said the amount would be “in addition” to the ex gratia of about Rs 1 crore provided by the respective CAPFs to their men and women who make supreme sacrifice in the line of duty.
Till now, eight CAPFs personnel have succumbed to the disease. The maximum of four fatalities were reported in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and two each in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF).
The MHA, under whose command the paramilitary forces function, launched the “Bharat Ke Veer” (BKV) fund in April 2017, with an aim to streamline the contributions made by people in their bid to pay tributes.
Meanwhile, sources said, the MHA has sanctioned acquisition of over 40,000 bulletproof jackets and 170 armoured troop carriers for the CRPF for counter-terrorist operations in the Kashmir valley and anti-Naxal offensives.
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