DGP sanctions retirement gift in favour of 71 police personnel

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 30: The Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh has sanctioned retirement gift of Rs 70.75 lakh in favour of 71 police personnel of J&K Police who retired from active services today after attaining superannuation or on voluntary retirement.
Sanction of retirement gift has been issued in favour of three gazetted, 54 non gazetted, 10 lower subordinates and four followers. These personnel belong to different units and wings of the department.
Retirement gift of Rs 1 lakh each has been sanctioned in favour of 70 police personnel and Rs 75,000 is sanctioned in favour of one DySP (M) who had retired from services on voluntary basis prior to 08-10-2021. The gift is sanctioned from the Contributory Police Welfare Fund at the time of retirement. The gift serves as a token of appreciation for services of the rendered to the department by the retiring persons.
As a gesture of welfare, the Police Headquarter (PHQ) has sanctioned over Rs 8.37 crore retirement gift in favour of 1094 police personnel this year so far.