The 82nd foundation day of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was celebrated at CRPF headquarter in the capital city where officials and personnel of CRPF donated 82 units of blood besides samplings were planted.
CRPF IG of Jharkhand sector Rajkumar, DIG Akhilesh Prasad Singh besides senior officials like D.S. Rathaur, D.T. Banerjee, retired brigadier Sushil Sharma and personnel of CRF participated in the programme.
They paid floral tributes to personnel and officials of CRPF who died in the line of duty.
Speaking on the occasion the CRPF IG said that CRPF is the world's largest para-military force with 249 battalions adding that the CRPF has maintained martial and humanitarian tradition of ensuring internal security of the country besides discharging its duty to the service of humanity.
He said that so far more than 2100 brave cops and officials of CRPF have sacrificed their life while protecting the country. Jharkhand is affected by the left wing extremism; the CRPF has deployed 22 battalions to support the state police in the combat against extremism.
So far this year the CRPF carried out a number of successful anti-naxal operations where eight rebels were eliminated, six surrendered and 35 rebels surrendered.
In these operations the CRPF seized 38 fire weapons, 1527 live bullets, 659 detonators, 133 improvised explosive devices and 1220 kg explosives from possession of rebels.
CRPF is also involved in the afforestation drive to protect the environment as during recently concluded month long drive around 22.72 lakh saplings were planted.
While the CRPF carries community development plans under civic actions programme during the outbreak of Covid-19; the CRPF distributed 217000 facemasks among needy persons.