: Cases of suicide, fratricide on the rise among stressed-out CAPF men #IndiaNEWS #India New Delhi: Amid rising incidents of suicides and fratricide, the Central government needs to initiate measures

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Cases of suicide, fratricide on the rise among stressed-out CAPF men #IndiaNEWS #India
New Delhi: Amid rising incidents of suicides and fratricide, the Central government needs to initiate measures to check these incidents and the security personnel need to be de-stressed by taking steps to ensure adequate leave to them with a healthy camaraderie between senior and junior levels across the forces.
Recently, in back to back incidents of fratricide this month, the BSF lost seven of its personnel.
On March 6, five BSF jawans were killed in an incident of fratricide in Khasa in Punjabs Amritsar where a constable, identified as Satteppa S. K. , fired at five of his colleagues in the camp, which is located 20 km from the Attari-Wagah border.
Next day on March 7, a BSF constable shot dead a colleague before shooting himself with his service rifle in West Bengals Murshidabad.
According to official data, a total of 193 suicides have been reported in the force since 2018, with 52 incidents being registered in 2021 alone while 23 security personnel were killed in 15 incidents of fratricide since 2018.
Analysing the possible causes of the incidents of suicide and fratricide in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), former BSF DG Prakash Singh told IANS that the personnel seem to be under tremendous stress because of the pressure of their duties. Also the fact that they remain posted in hard areas for a long time and sometimes do not get adequate leave.
Earlier, the BSF formation was of only six companies, subsequently the government of India decided to increase the strength to seven companies and said that the seventh company will always be on training. The BSF officers also agreed that the seventh company will always remain on training, now I found that the seventh company is also deployed.
Once the entire strength of the battalion is deployed, no company will be going for training, rest and recuperation and it is duty, duty and duty round the year except when the security personnel go on leave and sometimes this leave is also not sanctioned adequately, Singh added.
Soon after the fratricidal incident in which four CRPF jawans were killed and three injured in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh in November 2021, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) which has administrative control over all the CAPFs, directed them to initiate welfare measures like a get-together like ‘Chaupal or open informal meetings of the officers and the juniors across all ranks and file to know the reasons behind their stress and strain and to find solutions to their problems.
The Ministry order specifically asked the DGs of all CAPFs to ensure good behaviour and camaraderie between the senior and junior officers.
Noting that the CAPF personnel are over stressed, Singh stated that there was scope of improving the man-management in the forces.

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