Dehradun: In the budget to be presented in Parliament on February 1, the Uttarakhand Police is expected to get relief to the state in the modernization scheme. At the same time, recently, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and demanded to re-include the item of building and vehicle in the police modernization scheme. With the positive attitude of the Home Minister, the hope of increasing the budget of police modernization has been raised. Before the Modi government, funds were made available every year to purchase buildings, vehicles, and equipment under the police modernization scheme. Under this scheme, Uttarakhand got the maximum up to Rs 13 crore, in which buildings were constructed in police stations, officers' offices and PTC on a large scale.
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At the same time, it is also being said that not only this, besides the vehicles, the latest weapons were also purchased. After the BJP government came to the center, before the modernization plan, the items of building and then vehicle purchase was abolished. The result was that the budget for police modernization kept decreasing continuously. Due to the expiry of the item, the old construction works were also stuck in the middle. The state government had completed the construction works by arranging the amount in installments.
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But due to lack of budget, a lot of proposals of the police departments were reduced to government files. At the same time, the state government, which is struggling with the financial crisis, is not getting the budget available to the police department as expected. In this series, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat recently met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and raised the demand for re-incorporating the item of building and vehicles in the police modernization scheme. Where there is a problem in police modernization due to lack of budget. Modi government is going to present the budget on February 1. In such a situation, the hope of increasing the budget for police modernization has been raised.