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In the past two months, over 2,000 personnel of the Central Paramilitary Forces have quit service, with the highest number – 1,576 – from the Border Security Force (BSF) alone.
Giving this information in the Lok Sabha, Mr Gurudas Kamat, Minister of State for Home Affairs, said that most of the personnel had quit or taken voluntary retirement. The reasons varied from attractive alternative employment, personal problems, long period of separation from family, reduction in the qualifying service for full pension under the Sixth Pay Commission etc.
To check this trend, the Government was revamping the grievance redressal machinery, regular interaction between officers and troops, higher risk and hardship allowance, better medical facilities, a transparent leave policy etc, Mr Kamat said. He denied any anomaly in pay between those employed in Naxalite-hit areas and their counterparts in Jammu & Kashmir and the North-east.
In a reply to another question, Mr Mullappally Ramachandran, Minister of State for Home Affairs, said there were over 98,000 vacancies in the Central Paramilitary Forces, of which around 3,500 were in officer rank, and almost 17,000 in the junior officer rank. The maximum number of vacancies was in the BSF and Central Reserve Police Force, he added.
The Minister said that a modified scheme for common recruitment of constables had already been put in place to make the process more fair and transparent by maximising the use of technology, especially biometric.
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