SRINAGAR: Fulfilling its responsibility to look after the welfare of police pariwar, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh has sanctioned Rs 2.80 crore special welfare relief in favour of the survivors of the deceased officials and SPOs of the department who have passed away due to illness, accident or natural death while in service.
Special welfare relief of Rs 20 lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of dependents/legal heirs of deceased police personnel ASIs Kuldeep Singh, Subash Chander and Mohammad Bashir, HCs Raj Kumar, Niaz Ahmad, Ravinder Singh, Balbir Singh, Sat Paul and Harbans Kumar, SgCts Manzoor Ahmad, Abdul Majid, Kaka Ram and Constable Raman Sharma. Rupees one lakh each has been already paid to the families/ NoKs for performing the last rites as immediate relief by the PHQ through their concerned units.
The financial assistance has been given out of Contributory Police Welfare Fund. Besides, the DGP has also sanctioned special relief of Rs 5 lakh each in favour of dependents /legal heirs of deceased SPOs namely Brahmo Devi, Mohammad Shaikh, Pashori Lal and Pawan Kumar.
The amount has been sanctioned out of Contributory Welfare Fund of SPOs.
