In order to provide assistance to personnel to meet expenses on health, education of wards, marriage etc., the Director General of Police, J&K, Shri Dilbag Singh sanctioned welfare loan/relief of about rupees one crore twelve lakh in favour of 106 Police personnel. Vide PHQ order No. 438 the financial assistance has been sanctioned out of Contributory Central Police Welfare Fund.
Welfare loan that ranges from rupees fifty thousand to rupees three lakh has been sanctioned in favour of seventeen Police personnel for their self-treatment or for the treatment of their dependents. Rupees one lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of 68 Police personnel to meet the expenses for self-marriage or marriage of their dependent. Loan of rupees one lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of nine Police personnel for higher education purpose of their wards and rupees fifty thousand each has been sanctioned in favour of two Police personnel to meet the expenses for religious obligations. The loan will be recovered in installments from the personnel’s salary without any interest.
The DGP has also sanctioned welfare relief in favour of ten Police personnel at different rates. The relief has been provided for their self-treatment or the treatment of their dependents. This monetary assistance is not recovered.
J&K Police Headquarters with this endeavours continues to focus on the welfare of its personnel and their families. The Police personnel who are in need of financial assistance for self-treatment or treatment of dependents, self-marriage or marriage of their dependents/ higher education of their children or some religious obligations, are helped out under different schemes that have been introduced under the umbrella of Central Police Welfare Fund.