Govt doubles spl allowance for brave police personnel

The government has doubled the special monetary allowance given to gallantry award recipients of police and paramilitary forces.
"Monetary allowances attached with the President's Police Medal for gallantry and the Police Medal for gallantry has been enhanced from Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,000 and from Rs 900 to Rs 2,000 per month respectively, which is effective from May 10, 2013," Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters as he presented the monthly report card of his ministry.
The ministry, ever year, chooses a number of police and central paramilitary personnel from across the country who had showed exemplary courage and bravdo while rendering internal security duties or combating insurgents and Naxalites.

A number of other service benefits and awards like out-of-turn promotion and praiseworthy citations are awarded to these personnel depending on the amount of risk undertaken by each official.