Union home minister Amit Shah (ANI photo)

NEW DELHI: In a humanitarian gesture that will benefit lakhs of central paramilitary personnel, home minister Amit Shah has directed the director-generals of all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles to digitise the deployment details of jawans so as to facilitate each jawan to stay with his family for at least 100 days in a year.

Shah, during a presentation on functioning of the Police-II division of the home ministry given on September 23, is said to have expressed concern at the hardships faced by central force personnel due to deployment for long stretches at stations far away from home.

Accordingly, Shah directed that a software be created to digitise the deployment details of jawans so that each one of them could be facilitated to stay with his family for 100 days in a year. To offer this facility, the force DGs were asked to assess the additional manpower required.

When the deployment data is digitised, as against the paper file format in force now, it will be easy for the force headquarters to rotate and deploy their troops in such a way that they can join their families for at least 100 days in a year.

The home ministry wrote to the DGs of central forces like BSF , CRPF, ITBP, NSG, SSB, CISF and Assam Rifles on October 10, requesting them to take appropriate measures to implement Shah's directions.

A CRPF officer said a jawan on an average gets to spend barely 75-80 days with his family. These include 60 days of earned leave and 15 days of casual leave (excluding the weekend holidays) in a year. In addition, the jawans can avail of paternal leave of 15 days each for the birth of up to two children.

"Once Shah's directions are implemented, the jawans will get to spend almost 25% more time in a year with their respective families. This is a major humanitarian gesture aimed at giving much-required rest to the jawans and help him attend to his family that must otherwise do without his presence for a major part of the year. Also, it will help boost motivational levels of the jawans who will be reassured that the government feels for them," said a paramilitary official.

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