Union Home Minister Rajnath Sigh will be on one-day visit here on June 27 for the inauguration of all new administrative cum residential training camp for Jharkhand Jaguar at Tendergram. Entire camp area, according to an official, is equipped with all modern facilities along with state of the art landscape having five big ponds acting as natural ‘Dova’ which helps in the water conservation and maintaining water table in the area.
“We have developed a state of the art landscape having five big ponds acting as natural ‘Dova’ for conservation of water which will help further to increase water table in the area,” said Chief Engineer of Jharkhand Police Housing Corporation Suman Kumar. The whole project costing Rs 20.08 crore was completed within record 15 months’ time, added the Chief Engineer.
Sprawled over 100 acres of land, the new campus of Jharkhand Jaguar, popularly known as Special Task Force, will have a capacity of housing 450 jawans in two barracks having a capacity of 225 each. “Besides, the campus also has an administrative building, Magazine Building, 2 barracks, one guest house, one overhead water tank and a parade ground,” said Kumar.
“Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has been invited by Chief Minister Raghubar Das to inaugurate the new STF campus,” said IG STF Prashant Singh.
Taking pro-active initiative, the Government of Jharkhand through Home Department Notification No. 8C-203/07-748/Ranchi dated 19 Feb. 2008 sanctioned the creation of 20 Assault Groups of Special Task Force (STF) for eradication of extremist activities in Jharkhand. This force was later given the distinctive name of “Jharkhand Jaguar” (JJ), and also a distinctive uniform.