Director General of Police (DGP) Vijay Kumar Singh said that after retirement from Government service, a new innings of life begins. It is a matter of happiness that retired police officers and employees have included creative activities significantly in their new innings of life, he added.
Singh was addressing the annual meet and felicitation ceremony of Madhya Pradesh Police Service Pensioners Welfare Association, as a chief guest of the occasion.
On this occasion, he handed over cheques of Rs 10,000 on behalf of Police Service Pensioners Welfare Association to a dozen meritorious children of police employees. Retired elderly police officers were felicitated with shawls and bouquet.
He assured the officials of Madhya Pradesh Police Pensioners Welfare Association that all possible cooperation will be provided by them in creative work at the program organised at Vrindavan Garden.
The State police headquarters will now provide financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh for welfare programs to the Police Pensioners Welfare Association earlier assistance was Rs 50,000.
President of Police Service Pensioners Welfare Association Shambhu Nath Sharma and Vice President VN Singh, retired Additional Director General of Police, VS Raghuvanshi and AK Singh were present.
In the programme, the DGP felicitated meritorious children of Madhya Pradesh Police employees, who have secured more than 84 percent marks in class 12 this year. The meritorious students awarded include Akash, Jaya Gaur, Indranarayan, Chitra Chaudhary, Prabhat Shrivastava, Monika Khatri, Kanishka Singh, Ayushi, Sonali, Ashish, Balveer and Soumya Patel.
The Director General of Police also felicitated the retired senior police officers and employees on the occasion. These include 95-year-old retired police officer SS Srivastava, BB Shukla, SK Sharma and ML Yadav.