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Eye on women empowerment: Tripura Govt to recruit women in Police, says CM

The Tripura Government has planned to recruit 500 women in the Police department. The decision is in line with the State Government’s thrust in empowering the women of the State.

 

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, while speaking at a blood donation camp on Thursday said his government planned to recruit 500 women constables in the State police department.

 

The announcement came during the inaugural session of a blood donation camp, civic action programme and Shyama Puja at Jirania police station complex.

 

Eleven woman police volunteers were felicitated in the programme under Nirbhaya Fund Framework for their exemplary contributions in reducing the crimes against women.

 

The Chief Minister then inspected the blood donation camp and took part in winter cloth distribution programme.

 

Addressing the programme, Deb said the government aims at empowering and ensuring holistic development of women of the State. To this end, the government is implementing various plans for women empowerment and increasing participation of the women in financial activities.

 

He also said overall crime against is coming down while the conviction rate is increasing.

 

Sharing details, the Chief Minister said, “There is a decline in rape incidents and overall crime against women by 15.4 percent in 2020 as compared to 2019. The number of incidents related to domestic violence came down by 21.2 percent.”

 

He further said, the conviction rate in various IPC cases has increased by 10 percent as compared to 2018 while the figure in case of Special and Local Acts is up from 37 percent to 53 percent.

 

In another note, the Chief Minister said the women have to take the lead in protecting the young generation from HIV and drugs.

 

Information and Cultural Affairs minister Sushanta Chowdhury, who also attended the programme, stressed on the importance of generous blood donation to meet the demand of blood.

 

Citing an example, Chowdhury said a youth from Brahmanbaria of Bangladesh came to Tripura with special permission for a short time based on a social media post and saved the life of a patient by donating blood at IGM hospital. Deb said, the youth has set the best example of humanity.

 

ADGP Puneet Rastogi, District Magistrate (West Tripura)- Debapriya Bardhan, Superintendent of Police, West Tripura- Manik Das and others were present.

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