MHA for pay on par with Army for paramilitary forces in 7th Pay Commission

       MHA for pay on par with Army for paramilitary forces in 7th CPC

In a move that will benefit over nine lakh paramilitary personnel, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has proposed to the Seventh Pay Commission a “special pay” on par with the Army and has also batted for a better leave structure for the personnel who are deployed for counter-insurgency operations across the country. If MHA’s proposal to give extra allowance to the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel is accepted, a constable will be richer by at least Rs 48,000 per annum.

The Seventh pay Commission was constituted by the UPA government in February 2014, just before they went out of power. The MHA has also proposed creation of the post of a “head constable” in every section (roughly comprising 11 personnel) for better promotion opportunity.

“A standard company of any paramilitary generally consists of 100 personnel, which has nine sections. Presently there are only two head constables (HC) per section and if the MHA’s proposal is accepted, one more post of HC will be added,” said a senior official.

The Seventh Pay Commission will revise the salaries of over 50 lakh central government employees and remuneration of 30 lakh pensioners. The Sixth Pay Commission that was set up in 2006 cost the exchequer an additional Rs 26,035 crore.

A large number of paramilitary forces officers have quit in the last five years due to stagnation and tough working conditions. Around 9,000 personnel quit BSF, CRPF, ITBP, CISF and SSB due to unfavourable working conditions.

“While in the Army an officer is entitled to 20 casual leaves and jawans are entitled for 30 casual leaves, in the CAPF all the personnel are entitled to 15 days casual leave. The MHA has proposed to increase this too,” the official said.

“It has been a longstanding demand of CAPF to provide them parity with the Army as the nature of their duties have changed over the years. They are deployed in areas affected by Maoists, which have tough living conditions and are also prone to high risk,” the official said.

Leave For CAPF Personnel

Leave For CAPF Personnel

The details of leave being enjoyed by the officers/personnel of Central Armed Police Force at present are given below:-

Force	Establishment	In a calendar year
		Earned Leave	Casual Leave
AR	HQ DGAR	30 days	08 days
	Formation HQ	30 days	15 days
	Unit/Minor Unit	60 days	15 days
BSF	Static HQ i.e. Sector HQr, Frontier HQ & Force HQ	30 days	08 days
	Field formations i.e. Battalions, Units, Training Institutions	60 days	15 days
CISF	Static HQ i.e. Force HQ, Sector HQrs, Zonal HQrs etc, where 5 days week working.	30 days	08 days
	Field formations, where 6 days week working	30 days	15 days
CRPF	Static formations	30 days	08 days
	Field formations	60 days	15 days
ITBP	Static formations	30 days	08 days
	Field formations	60 days	15 days
SSB	Static formations	30 days	08 days
	Field formations	60 days	15 days

NB:     NSG is a 100% deputationist Force and the entire manpower is drawn from  Army, CAPFs, State Police and other organizations.  Officer/personnel posted in NSG are entitled to leave as admissible in their parent organizations.

A proposal for grant of Casual Leave for 20 days for officers and 30 days for other ranks of CAPFs posted in Battalion/Field, at par with Army in a calendar year to Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and Assam Rifles was received.  The proposal has been referred to 7^th Central Pay Commission vide MHA O.M. dated 17.10.2014.

Shortage of Manpower in NIA

Shortage of Manpower in NIA

NIA had submitted a “Vision Document” in which NIA proposed for creation of 1322  additional posts.  The proposal of NIA was examined by this Ministry and observed  that out the sanctioned strength of 816 a substantial number of posts have not been  filled up (254).  Therefore, MHA vide UO.No.11034/23/2010.PF.III dated 07/08/2014, NIA was advised to fill up the vacant posts first.  The branch wise sanctioned/posted  strength of NIA as on 13/02/2015 are as under:- Name  of Office Sanctioned Posted Vacancy NIA Hqr, Delhi 343 284 59 BO Mumbai 95 57 38 BO Hyderabad 110 81 29 BO Guwahati 87 56 31 BO Lucknow 71 55 16 BO Kolkata 81 17 64 BO Kochi 29 29 0 Total 816 579 237 The most of the cases being investigated by NIA are under the provisions of the Unlawful  Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 which mandate investigation by an officer of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and above. The posts sanctioned for each Branch Offices of NIA include posts for Executive, Ministerial,  IT wing, Law Officers, Technical wing and other wings.

Efforts to improve better living, working and service condition for CAPF Personnel

Efforts to improve better living, working and service condition for CAPF Personnel

The Government keeps on making efforts to improve better living, working and service condition for force personnel. The following measures have been taken in this regard:-

i) Implementing a transparent, rational and fair leave policy;

ii) Grant of leave to the force personnel to attend to their urgent domestic issues and social commitments;

iii) Regular interaction, both formal and informal, among Commanders, officers and troops to find out and address their problems;

iv) Revamping of grievances redressal machinery;

v) Regulating duty hours to ensure adequate rest and relief;

vi) Improving living conditions through provision of basic amenities/facilities for troops and their families;

vii) Government has approved extensionof the facility of retention of Government accommodation at the last place of posting for CAPF personnel deployed/posted in Left Wing Extremism affected areas/ districts (except State capitals), as notified by the Government of India from time to time

CAPF Battalions

CAPF Battalions

The Government has sanctioned 626 numbers of Battalions in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) as detailed below:-

CAPFs	Numbers of Battalion sanctioned
Assam Rifles	46
BSF	186
CISF	10
CRPF	249
ITBP	62
SSB	73
Total	626

Authorised Strength of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles (AR)

Special Pay for Paramilitary Personnel at PAR with Army

As informed by Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles (AR), the detail of strength of CAPFs and AR is as under:

Force	AUTHORISED STRENGTH
	GOs	SOs	ORs	Total
Central Reserve Police Force	4,997	39,123	259,415	303,535
Border Security Force	5,034	34,341	212,684	252,059
Central Industrial Security Force	1,506	24,789	115,047	141,342
Indo-Tibetan Border Police	2,095	12,680	74,663	89,438
Sashatra Seema Bal	2,061	12,044	77,129	91,234
Assam Rifles	1,269	4,603	60,540	66,412
Total	16,962	127,580	799,478	944,020

A proposal for grant of Para Military Service Pay (PMSP) to Central Armed Police Force personnel at par with Army personnel has been referred to the 7^th Central Pay Commission vide MHA O.M. dated 05.11.2014.  The rate of Para Military Service Pay requested is @ Rs. 2,000/- per month to Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) and Rs.6,000/- per month to officers upto Dy. Inspector General of Police rank, based on the rates of Military Service Pay.  State Armed Police Forces are under the administrative control of State Governments.  As such, present proposal does not include State Armed Police Forces.

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