Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Modi Government is committed to take care of the families of Central security forces’ personnel while they guard the nation.
Addressing CRPF personnel while laying the foundation stone of the paramilitary’s new headquarters building here, Shah said the government is working to ensure that every force personnel gets to spend at least 100 days with their family.
Health card facility will be provided to families of paramilitary jawans, Shah said.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) with a strength of over 3-lakh personnel is lead internal security force of the country dealing with anti-terrorist and counter Naxal operations across the country.
The new CCRPF headquarters will come up on a 2.23 acre land adjacent to the CBI head office at Lodhi Road at an estimated cost of Rs 277 crore.
The CPWD has been entrusted with the task of completing the construction of the new building by March 2022.
The current headquarters of the CRPF is located at Block No 1 in the Central Government Offices (CGO) complex on Lodhi Road but a number of its offices like that of the RAF, CoBRA, medical, training, communications, and works and recruitment are located at different locations in the national capital owing to lack of space in the head office building.
The plan of the new facility is to have ground plus 11 floors with three basements will have a total built up area 45,675 square metre. Besides adequate office space, the state-of -the-art building will have an auditorium, conference hall, barracks for subordinate staff, central police canteen, gymnasium, guest room, kitchen and dining room and mechanical parking for 520 cars and 15 buses.
Skywalks would be created at the 6th and 7th floor connecting the office blocks with cafeteria.
The ‘Green’ building is proposed to have a number of environment friendly features like terrace lawn, water and sewage treatment plant, rain water harvesting system and an indigenous ventilation system and reduction of heat and access to daylight thrugh fenestration. The complex will also have a green area of 2,264 square metre.
Shah also unveiled a new insignia for the CRPF’s VIP security wing that secures 59 high-risk personalities, including the Home Minister himself and members of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her family besides and a host of Union ministers.
The logo — with a “Garuda”, sword and shield -- will give a distinct identity to the unit, Shah said.
The VIP security wing of the CRPFcomprises about 4,000 personnel. The insignia will bear the motto of the force — “Always, Aware, Alert”.