To mark the diamond jubilee year of CRPF, (Central Reserve Police Force) a ‘Run for Unity’ was held in Bastar district headquarters Jagdalpur on Sunday. The run is being organised in different parts of India.
Member of Parliament from Bastar, Dinesh Kashyap flagged off the run in presence of Mayor Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation from lalbagh ground. Kashyap in his address praised CRPF for its efforts for maintaining national unity and integrity. “CRPF and its constituent CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) has served the nation at different places and have maintained law and order situation in Bastar,”.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of CRPF for Bastar region MJ Vijay while talking about upon history of CRPF said that CRPF was founded on July 27, 1939 in Neemuch district of Madhya Pradesh as ‘Crown Representative Police’. On December 28, 1949 after the formation of CRPF Act it was renamed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
Presently, there are 234 battalions of CRPF in country which includes 10, CoBRA battalion, which has been specially trained for jungle warfare. Two out of them are in Chhattisgarh, he said. “For dealing with communal violence CRPF has 10 Rapid Action Force (RPF), 3 women battalion, one parliament duty group. For handling natural calamities we have 3 teams of NDRF (National Disaster Relief Force) and 5 signal battalion.
The DIG highlighted that CRPF has earned fame by conducting operations in Sri lanka, conduct of Assembly and Parliamentary elections besides others. DIG Bastar region KK Sinha also took part in the race. He thanked the people for participating in the race in huge numbers and making it a big success.