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Revanth Reddy raises ex-gratia for Telangana police killed on duty, promises all vacancies filled by 2027
At the Police Commemoration Day parade in Hyderabad, the chief minister said families of sub-inspectors and inspectors will now get ₹1.25 crore, and a notification for 5,000 police posts is already out.
Key points
- Ex-gratia for sub-inspectors and inspectors killed on duty rises to ₹1.25 crore.
- A notification for 5,000 police vacancies has been issued, with all posts to be filled by 2027.
- Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said "only when police act tough can crimes be controlled".
Families of Telangana police personnel killed on duty will receive far larger compensation, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced on Wednesday, as he also promised to fill every vacancy in the force by 2027.
Speaking at the Police Commemoration Day parade in Hyderabad, Reddy set out a new ex-gratia scale. Families of sub-inspectors and inspectors will get ₹1.25 crore; until now sub-inspectors’ families received ₹45 lakh and inspectors’ ₹50 lakh. Head constables and assistant sub-inspectors move to ₹1 crore from ₹45 lakh. Superintendents of police and IPS officers rise to ₹2 crore from ₹1 crore, and home guards to ₹10 lakh from ₹5 lakh.
Recruitment drive
Reddy said a notification had been issued to fill 5,000 police vacancies, and that 112 deputy superintendent posts were being recruited, a number he called unprecedented in the state’s history. All vacancies in the department would be filled by 2027, he said.
He urged officers to be firm with offenders and responsive to citizens. “Only when police act tough can crimes be controlled,” he said.
The chief minister also pointed to EAGLE, the Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement that the state set up to choke the supply of narcotics, and said Union Home Minister Amit Shah had appreciated the unit. His government, he said, was taking concrete steps against drugs and cybercrime.
Remembering the fallen
Reddy named three martyrs, Dev Singh, Pramod Kumar and Gajula Soumya, as the force marked the day that honours police personnel who died in the line of duty. Director General of Police C V Anand said law and order had improved, and credited the sacrifices police had made in operations against Naxalites. He recalled that more than 120 policemen were named at the 1997 commemoration in undivided Andhra Pradesh, killed in Maoist landmine blasts, attacks on police stations and targeted attacks.
Anand also asked the chief minister to speed up other welfare measures for the force.
Police Commemoration Day is held every year on 21 October to remember the ten policemen killed by Chinese troops at Hot Springs in Ladakh in 1959. States held their own parades on Wednesday while Amit Shah led the national ceremony at the National Police Memorial in New Delhi.