Jaipur: Chief minister Vasundhara Raje during her meeting with Union home minister Rajnath Singh requested support for a new Rapid Action Force (RAF) battalion along with constitution of Counter Terrorism Institute and Criminal Justice Institute.
The chief minister requested that necessary directives be issued to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for formation of a new RAF battalion for Jaipur under the umbrella scheme for police modernization. She also requested him for financial assistance from the centre for the constitutions of the two institutes.
Raje, who was in Delhi, had met Singh on Wednesday. The chief minister also pushed for reactivation of 24 border intelligence outposts (BIO) in Barmer, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Ganganagar districts, which stand dilapidated and defunct awaiting central funding. Most of these defunct outposts are in Jaisalmer, which shares a 471-long km international border with Pakistan. Raje, during her meeting with Singh, also requested that the cost for reopening these BIOs be covered under the Border Area Development Programme or some other programme.
During the meeting, the two discussed the agriculture ministry's `Drought Management Manual 2016'. The chief minister brought to his notice that the provision of which were hard for Rajasthan to follow because of the varying topography of the state and hence needed an amendment. Several new conditions have been laid in the new manual, which would be difficult to follow in the state, said Raje.
She also informed him that the girdawari for Kharif-2017 was completed between September 16 and October 15. The survey of damaged crops due revealed that damage of over 50 per cent to crops was recorded in 4,065 villages of 12 districts. Raje pointed out that as per the new provisions, the state was facing a problem in declaring four tehsils of Bhilwara and three tehsils of Hanumangarh districts, drought-affected.
The chief minister requested that necessary directives be issued to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for formation of a new RAF battalion for Jaipur under the umbrella scheme for police modernization. She also requested him for financial assistance from the centre for the constitutions of the two institutes.
Raje, who was in Delhi, had met Singh on Wednesday. The chief minister also pushed for reactivation of 24 border intelligence outposts (BIO) in Barmer, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Ganganagar districts, which stand dilapidated and defunct awaiting central funding. Most of these defunct outposts are in Jaisalmer, which shares a 471-long km international border with Pakistan. Raje, during her meeting with Singh, also requested that the cost for reopening these BIOs be covered under the Border Area Development Programme or some other programme.
During the meeting, the two discussed the agriculture ministry's `Drought Management Manual 2016'. The chief minister brought to his notice that the provision of which were hard for Rajasthan to follow because of the varying topography of the state and hence needed an amendment. Several new conditions have been laid in the new manual, which would be difficult to follow in the state, said Raje.
She also informed him that the girdawari for Kharif-2017 was completed between September 16 and October 15. The survey of damaged crops due revealed that damage of over 50 per cent to crops was recorded in 4,065 villages of 12 districts. Raje pointed out that as per the new provisions, the state was facing a problem in declaring four tehsils of Bhilwara and three tehsils of Hanumangarh districts, drought-affected.
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