Founder and National President of ‘Madhya Pradesh Police Sahyog Sangh’ Javed Iqbal on Monday said that the grade pay of the police department has not been raised in last 35 years. A ‘Maun Jan Aandolan’ (Silent Movement) will be organised on May 26, 2016 at Yadgar-e-Shahjahani and later will demonstrate in front of the Chief Minister House, he added.
While talking to the mediapersons Iqbal said that DGP Surendra Sinh has forwarded a proposal to the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan regarding the raise in allowances received by the police department.
Through the proposal it requested to raise the uniform stitching allowance as Rs 8,000 at the time of selection and then every year Rs 5,000, special allowance to be raised to Rs 700 that is Rs 18 at present and has not been changed in past 40 years.
Washing allowance has to be raised from Rs 60 to Rs 500. Food allowance is presently Rs 650 and was requested in the proposal to raise it to Rs 2000 per month.
For the conveyance allowance for new approval, Constable grade pay to be raised from Rs 1900 to Rs 2100, for Head Constable grade pay to be raised from 2100 to be 2400, for ASI the grade pay to be raised from Rs 2400 to Rs 2800, the grade pay of the SI to be raised from Rs 3600 to Rs 4200 and for Inspectors from Rs 4200 to Rs 4800. These requests were sent to the Chief Minister by the DGP Sinh.