State government doubled the allowances given to the gazetted and non-gazetted police officials who won medals for bravery and other services from President. The move has been made on directions of the Central Government to motivate and boost the morale of the policemen across the country.
Giving this information here on Friday evening, principal secretary (Home), AK Gupta said that those who won Presidents’ medal for gallantry or presidents’ police medal (bar), would now get an allowance of Rs 3000 per month instead of Rs 1500. Similarly, those winning medal for bravery or medal for bravery (Bar) would now get Rs 2000 per month instead of Rs 900.
Gupta said that they had also doubled the medal given for outstanding and distinguished services to non-gazetted officers just to motivate them for delivering their duties with full devotion. He said that for outstanding services, now 100 medal will be given every year in place of 50 while for distinguished services, 400 medals will be given instead of existing 200 medals.
He said that to make distribution system more transparent, a five member committee under director general of police will be formed soon. He said that a standard will be also laid according to which DGP has been also empowered to give medal to the policemen whom he though to have delivered outstanding services.