Chhattisgarh police on Monday decided to launch a scholarship for meritorious students belonging to police families.
A proposal to start the DGP scholarship got a nod at a meeting of the Chhattisgarh Police Central Welfare Committee and Joint Advisory Committee chaired by the state’s police chief DM Awasthi at the conference hall of Police Transit mess on Monday.
As per the decision, students who will score 85% or more marks in 10th board exam will be given a scholarship of Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 per month and students who have scored 80% or more in 12th board exam will be provided scholarship of Rs 3000 per month.
For graduation and post graduation from any prestigious institution of the state, eligible meritorious students will be provided scholarship of Rs 5000 per month, under this scheme.
In his address to members of advisory committee, DGP Awasthi said that proposals related to welfare and development of police families should be taken into consideration. Service in police department would prove beneficial only if by the time police personnel/officials get retired, their children complete their higher education.
Awasthi said that a committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of ADGP Ashok Juneja to prepare SoP for equal promotion opportunities for all the officials/employees of state police.
In the meeting, proposal of higher education loan on minimum interest rate for meritorious children of police personnel was also approved.
Police officials/personnel will now have access to financial aid of Rs 1.50 lakh from crisis fund, twice in their entire service period.