CAPF Punarvas Launched

Key Takeaways

Through the Welfare & Rehabilitation Board, the Ministry of Home Affairs has launched ‘CAPF Punarvas’  for CAPF and Assam rifles.

About CAPF Punarvas

• The Home Affairs Ministry has launched ‘CAPF Punarvas’, to facilitate retired Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) and Assam Rifle personnel to secure employment with private security agencies.
• Benefits :
  • The portal which was launched through Welfare and Rehabilitation Board (WARB) will help retired personnel seeking re-employment to find an appropriate match by uploading their personal details on the website along with their area of expertise and preferred employment location.
  • The Ministry of Home Affairs also runs a portal under Private Security Agencies Regulation Act (PSARA) for the registration of Private Security Agencies (PSAs).
  • Both websites have now been interlinked  whereby the database of retired CAPFs personnel who have applied on ‘CAPF Punarvas’ can be accessed by PSAs through PSARA website resulting in a single platform for both job seekers and job providers.

About the Central Armed Police Force.

• Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) refers to the uniform nomenclature of seven central armed police organisations of India under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• Their role is to defend the national interest mainly against the internal threats. 
• They are the 
  1. Border Security Force (BSF)
  2. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
  3. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
  4. Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
  5. Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) 
  6. National Security Guard (NSG)
  7. Assam Rifles (AR)

• Functions: 
  • Central Armed Police Forces are organised with the primary role of border guarding for BSF, ITBP, SSB
  • Security of sensitive establishments by CISF, Assisting Police to tackle Law & Order, Counter-Terrorist Operations, Counter Naxal Operations by CRPF, NSG. 
  • Apart from the primary role, all CAPFs are involved in assisting Police in Law & Order situations and also Army in Counter-Terrorist Operations. 
  • BSF & CRPF have assisted the army during external aggression in the past. CAPFs work along with both Army & Police in different roles assigned to them.

About Assam rifles.

• The Assam Rifles is the oldest branch of the Indian Army, dating back to 1835 under the British Raj, raised under the name Cachar Levy. 
• The present name of “Assam Rifles” has been used since 1917.
• Over the course of its history, the Assam Rifles have served in a number of roles, conflicts and theatres including World War I, where they served in Europe and the Middle East, and World War II, where they served mainly in Burma.
• After the Chinese annexation of Tibet, the Assam Rifles were tasked with manning the Tibetan border of Assam Himalayan region. 
• They were also instrumental in maintaining law and order in Arunachal Pradesh.
• It is a branch of the Indian Army, which is under the Ministry of Defence (MoD). 
• Functions
  • It is tasked with the maintenance of law and order in the North East along with the Indian Army and also guards the Indo-Myanmar border in the region.  
  • It has a sanctioned strength of over 63,000 personnel and has 46 battalions apart from administrative and training staff.

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