Chandigarh: The central government channeled Rs 50 Crore to the Punjab government for police modernization in the last three years, Rs 35 Crore to the Government Haryana and Rs 10 Crore to the Government of Himachal Pradesh.
The information was revealed by the Minister of State of Nityanand Rai, in return on a question during the ongoing MONSOON parliamentary session on Tuesday.
He added even though the police and public order were the subjects of the state based on the seventh constitutional schedule, the central government completed the efforts of the state government by equipping and modernizing police forces with centrally sponsored schemes – assistance to the police modernization.
“Over the past two years, certain countries such as Uttarakhand, Punjab, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram have asked for more funding allocations for police modernization.
However, currently, most state governments have a substantial balance that is not removed from the funds released During previous years.
There are capacity constraints at the end of several Directorate of State Police in utilizing funds, “Rai said.
He, however, was added to countries that utilize their funds on time, this scheme has a unique mechanism to provide more funds based on efficiency in time utilization of funds, in the form of ‘better performance incentives’.
These funds are released from the amount of funds collected which have not been released because the non-furniture certificate of utilization by other countries and incentives for police reform in the field of selected reforms which up to 20% of the allocated funds are removed.
Under this assistance scheme, the central government has provided assistance to the state government for the acquisition of sophisticated weapons such as Insas and AK series rifles, all types of intelligence equipment including unmanned air vehicles or drones, CCTV vision devices, body – camera used, communication equipment Modern and equipment for security, training, forensics, cybercrime, and traffic police.
Also, in this scheme, the purchase of operational vehicles is permitted in the North-Eastern countries affected by the uprises and districts affected by extremism, Rai said.