The State Government would soon establish a Police Station at Sirpur town in Mahasamund district. Sirpur is the world-renowned ancient Buddhist archaeological site in Mahasamund district.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation is in the process of constructing as many as 152 buildings for police stations with estimated expenditure of Rs417 crore, officials stated.
Of the 152 police station buildings, 75 buildings with a cost outlay of Rs150 crore are being constructed in insurgency-hit districts of Chhattisgarh, said officials, adding that construction of about 25 buildings has been accomplished while construction of 15 buildings will be completed shortly.
The Corporation is constructing 34 fortified police stations of which construction of almost all fortified police stations will be completed by the end of December this year, added officials.
As many as 53 police stations will be constructed across the State under Police Modernization Scheme from which construction of 10 police stations have been accomplished and works for 31 police stations are underway while tendering process for three others have been completed and the work would start soon.
Similarly, the Chhattisgarh government has sanctioned 21 buildings for police station with expenditure of Rs8.34 crore, said officials, elaborating that of sanctioned police station buildings, the Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation has already completed construction of six police stations while works for 15 police stations are in progress.
Under special structure scheme, six police stations with cost of Rs1.5 crore will be developed in the State, of which, one police station has been completed and works for others are underway.
It may be recalled that the Centre had released a total sum of Rs75.20 crores between 2010 to 2013 for a scheme for strengthening and strengthening fortification of police stations in the left Wing Extremism (lWE) pockets of Chhattisagrh as per the statistics available with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
Nationally, under the scheme, a total of 400 police stations and outposts are to be constructed in the 10 lWE affected states at the rate of Rs2 crore per police station, it stated.
Eighty per cent of the cost of the project is being met by the Centre while 20 per cent is being met by the concerned State Government.