Uttarakhand Director General of Police BS Sidhu has announced several welfare schemes for the dependents of police personnel who lost their life on duty. The DGP chaired a meeting of State Police Foundation Committee with the police officers and announced the welfare schemes for dependents of police personnel who lost their life on duty.
Sidhu said that police personnel who lost their life on duty six months ago and whose dependents had not received extra ordinary pension will be allowed to secure appointment as clerical staff or ministerial employee if they fulfill Government norms for that post. The dependents of those police personnel who died five years ago and had not claimed appointment will be allowed the claim in the department.
The dependents of police personnel who died on duty and whose names are read out during police memorial day, will be presented cash on State’s Foundation Day. According to him, this announcement will not benefit the dependents of the policemen who died due to disease or in accident.