The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has recorded 10 suicides by jawans in the last 23 days across states, News18 has reported. The suicides have been reported from different arms of the CRPF – the specialised wing, anti-Naxal unit CoBRA and J&K units – from places like Pulwama and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Odisha, and Jharkhand, among others.
As per the report, the issue has been discussed at all levels, and, at the recent Chintan Shivar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, also expressed concerns.
Among the decisions taken to arrest the rising suicide rate among jawans, supervising officers will share more onus to prevent such deaths. A senior official told News18 that any such incident will be mentioned in the annual performance appraisal report of the supervising officer, which may dent their shot at promotions.
“It has come to light that most of the suicide cases in the force are attributable to reasons such as family dispute, marital discord, other personal reasons, illness etc., besides a few instances where professional reasons were involved. Therefore, serious efforts have been made to ensure a conducive work environment and grievance redressal to minimise suicides in the force,” the report quoted a senior CRPF official as saying.
