Jammu: The Director General of Police, R. R. Swain has sanctioned an amount of Rs 26 lakh as welfare relief in favour of 56 retired police personnel and 31 NoKs of martyrs police personnel/SPOs to assist them financially, a police spokesman informed Friday.
He said the amount has been sanctioned under two different orders issued by Police headquarters. Under an order, Rs 10.65 lakh has been sanctioned in favour of 35 retired J&K Police personnel for their self-treatment or for the treatment of their dependents and Rs 2. 20 lakh has been sanctioned in favour of seven retired police officials to ease up their financial distress.
Under the similar order, Rs 3.15 lakh has been sanctioned in favour of 14 retired police personnel to aid in the marriage expenses of their sons and daughters, J&K police said on X, formerly Twitter.
Under another order, the DGP sanctioned Rs 10 lakh in favour of 31 NoK of martyred police personnel and SPOs to ease up their financial distress.
It is worth noting that the welfare relief offered is non-refundable. For SPOs, welfare relief is allocated out of J&K Police Pariwar Fund and for retired police officials, the fund is allocated out of retired Policemen Welfare Fund.
