West Bengal government has decided to bring all its lower-ranked contactual staff working as civic police, home guards, National Volunteer Force (NVF) and group D staff of police under an accident insurance scheme.
The scheme, named “group personal accident policy” will cover around 60,000 staffs working on daily wage basis. According to an official statement, the policy will be launched on September 1, 2012. The policy is optional, and those who will opt for the scheme will have to pay Rs 235 annually.Under the scheme, each victim's family members would get Rs 5 lakh for death case, while for other major injury the vicitm will be eligible to get from Rs 2.5 lakhs to Rs 5 lakhs.
A notice has already been issued by the West Bengal police directorate to all concerned distric authorities. The NVF, civic police and home guards are engaged in taffic control, night patrolling anf guarding check posts.