News Highlights:
Tribal youth to join CRPF: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has completed the recruitment process of 400 tribal youth from three worst Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected districts in Chattisgarh.
Key Takeaway:
The new recruits from the districts of Sukma, Bijapur, and Dantewada will join basic CRPF training in March.
Tribal youth in CRPF:
- Qualifications:
- Minimum educational qualification will be relaxed from Class 10 to Class 8 for the recruitment of 400 candidates from the districts.
- The services of the recruits will only be confirmed after they acquire the minimum educational qualification of Class X, for which CRPF will help them register with the National Institute of Open Schools recognised by the Central or State government.
- Along with the formal education, study material, books and coaching assistance during the probation period will also be provided to candidates by the CRPF, but the decision on the serving of the candidates will only be confirmed after they achieve the Class 10 qualification through CRPF’s training.
- Applications for the advertised post:
- Thousands applied for the advertised post of Constable (General Duty)
- The identity of the candidates is finalised for the posts and is under wraps due to security reasons.
- The families of many candidates have received threats from Maoist cadres warning them from joining the force.
- Earlier Recruitments:
- This is not the first time such a special recruitment drive was launched in the LWE-affected districts.
- CRPF during 2016-2017 had raised one Bastariya Battalion by recruiting 744 Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates from four districts, namely, Bijapur, Dantewada, Narayanpur and Sukma of Chhattisgarh.
- Unfortunately, many positions remained vacant as the tribal youth from interior locations of the four districts could not meet the educational requirement criteria.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):
- About:
- The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is one of the premier Central Armed Police Forces of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs for internal security.
- The other Central Armed Police Forces are as follow:
- Assam Rifles (AR): The Assam Rifles came into being in 1835, as a militia called the ‘Cachar Levy’.
- Border Security Force (BSF): Responsible for guarding India’s land borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Central Industrial Security Force (CISF): Provides security cover to nuclear installations, space establishments, airports, seaports, power plants, sensitive Government buildings and heritage monuments.
- Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP): ITBP is a specialised mountain force, and most officers and men are professionally trained mountaineers and skiers.
- National Security Guard (NSG): The National Security Guard (NSG) is a counter-terrorism unit raised in 1984 following Operation Blue Star.
- Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB): Earlier Special Service Bureau was raised in the 1960s with the sole objective of achieving ‘Total security preparedness’ in the remote border areas for performing a ‘stay-behind’ role in the event of a war.
- Background:
- Originally constituted as the Crown Representative Police in 1939, it is one of the oldest Central paramilitary forces.
- After Independence, the force was renamed Central Reserve Police Force by an Act of Parliament on December 28, 1949.
- Objective:
- To enable the government to maintain the Rule of Law, Public Order and Internal Security effectively and efficiently.
- To Preserve National Integrity and Promote Social Harmony and Development by upholding the supremacy of the Constitution.
- Significance:
- The force played a significant role during the amalgamation of the princely States into the Indian Union.
- It helped the Union Government discipline the rebellious princely States of Junagarh and the tiny principality of Kathiawar in Gujarat, which had declined to join the Indian Union.
- The force’s job is to maintain law and order in the subcontinent, and by virtue of it, they combat insurgencies, act as rescue forces whenever required, etc.
- CRPF was the on-guard force at the Indo-Pak border until 1965 when the Border Security Force came into existence specifically for this purpose.
- CRPF is also deployed for international missions for the United Nations.
- The CRPF continues to step in whenever natural disasters or unforeseen accidents happen.
- COBRA is a special operation unit of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of India, proficient in guerrilla tactics and jungle warfare.
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Content Source: The Hindu