Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 18: Jammu and Kashmir Police Parivar organized a Sammelan of families of police martyrs at Police Welfare Centre Gulshan Ground here today. The Sammelan was organized with the aim to get feedback about the measures adopted for the welfare of next of kins and address their problems.
Addressing the Sammelan, Chairperson Jammu and Kashmir Wives Welfare Association (PWWA), K. Vijaya Rajendra said that police martyrs have sacrificed their precious lives for a noble cause to safeguard peace and tranquility in the State and Jammu and Kashmir Police Parivar has a great responsibility to take care of the families left behind by the martyrs. She said that the sacrifices of these martyrs have yielded fruits and a sense of peace and security has been prevailed in the State.
Mrs. Rajendra said that the NOKs of martyrs are members of Police Parivar and the organization is committed to provide every possible help so that they would not feel themselves isolated at any level. “Many welfare schemes are in force, providing succor to the martyrs families and innovative measures have been taken to generate sources and strengthen welfare fund” she said.
She disclosed that interactions with the families would help to discuss and address the problems of martyr’s families and stressed that such Samelans should be made mandatory at different levels periodically to address their grievances. She also stressed to focus on the schemes benefitting the wards of martyrs in their future career building.
Besides families of police martyr’s families, various PWWA members and senior police officers were present in the Samelan, which include AIG (Welfare), Rajeshwar Singh, Dy. SP (Welfare), Madhu Bandral and other police officers.