Ajay Banerjee
New Delhi, April 21
Danger and hardship allowance to armed forces private has been revised upwards, therefore eradicating a disparity vis-a vis personnel of the Central armed police forces (CAPF’s).
The CAPF’s had been drawing greater charges of ‘danger allowance’ than the armed forces personnel posted at similar location.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made the announcement to revise the allowance on the Army Commanders’ Convention immediately to convey it at par with what’s paid to CAPF’s.
The allowance has additionally been made admissible to NCC items, Coaching Centres, BRO, MES and different static items at one degree decrease as admissible to the combatant troops.
The personnel posted for Anti-Naxal Activity Drive (ANTF) duties with CAPF has been granted the allowance. The revised charges are relevant with retrospective impact from February 22, 2019.
Publish the Pulwama terror assault on a CRPF bus in February 2019 , the chance allowance was hiked for CAPF’s. A committee was fashioned within the Ministry of Defence in March 2019 to look at the problem. The matter was shifted to the Division of Navy Affairs after it was fashioned. A committee submitted its report in January 2021 and accepted by the Defence Minister in August 2021.
The proposal for parity of allowance was cleared in April 2022. The delay was primarily attributable to Covid contemplating the massive monetary outgo.
