Companies of Central Armed Police Forces in Naxal Affected Areas

Companies of Central Armed Police Forces in Naxal Affected Areas 

Presently, a total number of 593 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) have been deployed in 10 Left Wing Extremism affected states for assisting the state police in conducting anti-LWE operations in the state.

With effect from 01.4.2014, the rate of recovery of deployment charges for each Battalion (of 7 coys) have been fixed at Rs 43.10 crore per annum, in addition to actual cost of transportation/ movement of the Battalions, with 5% annual increase for the subsequent five years from 2014-15 to 2018-19. As on 01.10.2014, an amount of Rs 13139.37 crore is outstanding on deployment of CRPF (the largest amongst CAPFs) against LWE affected States, on account of deployment charges.

Presently, there is no proposal with the Government to reduce / decrease the number of battalions of CAPFs in the LWE affected States, thus reducing the expenditure on their deployment.