Director General of Police (DGP) D M Awasthi has constituted a Committee to look into the four-decade old Chhattisgarh Special Armed Force Act’s structure for suggesting a new Act in tune with the current social and strategic environment.
The objective is to study the present Act keeping in view the existing social and strategic environment prevailing in the state, an official press release informed on Wednesday.
The Committee will take into account the existing scenario and draft a new Chhattisgarh Special Armed Force Act.
The Chhattisgarh Police Department has after the formation of state in year 2000 had adopted the Madhya Pradesh Special Armed Force Act 1968 with amended year 1973 in the existing structure without making any change.
Now, after 18 years of formation of the state, the need for change in the Act is being felt in present changed scenario and era of technological advancement.
The Committee has Commandant First Battalion Ashutosh Singh (IPS), Deputy Commandant 12thBattalion O P Chandel, Deputy Commandant 14th Battalion M. R. Mandavi, Assistant Commandant 4th Battalion Alok Tiwari, Assistant Commandant 8th Battalion Rakesh Singh, S.I. (M) First Battalion P Bhattacharya and Subedar Major (M) G. K. Temburkaras its members. The Committee will submit its report within two weeks.