Union Home & Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah launches 'CAPF eAwas' portal

05 Sep,22 12:32 pm
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CAPF e-Awas Portal: Union Home & Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah, on 1st September 2022 launched the CAPF e-Awas Portal web-portal in New Delhi.

Key Points:

  • The CAPF (Central Armed Police Forces) e-Awas Portal has been launched for the purpose of allocating residential quarters to CAPF personnel and Assam Rifles.
  • The CAPFs, apart from the Assam Rifles, also include Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
  • According to the data released by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), currrently, about 19% of the houses of the CAPFs are vacant and through this portal, the force personnel can find the houses available with other forces.
  • With the introduction of e-Awas, the personnel from other CAPFs will have the access to unoccupied houses.
  • The process of allotment process is completely automated and is done through the online application of allotment.

Background:

  • Till now, there was such a mechanism in CAPF that only the force for which the houses were built were made available to them. As a result, thousands of houses were left vacant.

Advantages of CAPF eAwas Portal:

  • The web portal will serve as an accurate inventory of “Residential houses and SFAs” lying with all the CAPFs along with their location.
  • It will bring in transparency in the allotment process of accommodation to personnel of CAPFs.
  • Allocation of quarters and SFAs to CAPF members is in accordance with a set of guidelines and "Standard Operating Procedure" (SOP) for inter-Force allocation of quarters.
  • The process will be transparent and user friendly for the applicant and department too.
  • All the data and records relevant to the allotment process will be centralised and available to all the parties.
  • If the residence of any one force is not assigned for any reason for a period of four months then there is also a provision allowing any member of the Central Armed Police to apply for that residence online.
  • This web-portal also has a provision of the desired information related to allotment to be received from time to time by the employees on their mobile and through e-mail.

With the efforts of the Government, the housing satisfaction rate which was 33 per cent in 2014 is expected go up to 73 per cent by 2024.

Other Initiative for the welfare of Jawans:

  • The MHA and the National Health Authority jointly launched the Ayushman CAPF scheme 23 JAN 2021.
  • The scheme was launched to provide cashless healthcare benefits to CAPF personnel from all seven forces- BSF, CISF, CRPF, Assam Rifles, ITBP NSG and SSB.
  • Under this scheme, CAPF personnel & their families would be able to avail cashless in-patient and out-patient healthcare facilities across the hospitals that come under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY.
  • As of now, ten lakh workers have received Ayushman cards totalling more than 35 lakhs. Likewise, over 56 thousand bills totalling more than Rs 31 crore have already been paid.

About CAPF:

  • CAPF is an acronym for the Central Armed Police Forces.
  • CAPF refers to uniform nomenclature of security forces in India under the authority of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
  • However, its operational control rests with the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
  • Their role is to defend the national interest mainly against the internal threats.

 The seven organizations under the CAPF are:

  1. Border Security Force (BSF),
  2. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF),
  3. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF),
  4. Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) 
  5. National Security Guard (NSG) and
  6. Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
  7. Special Protection Group (SPG).
  • Of the CAPFs, the AR, BSF, ITBP and SSB are Border Guarding Forces.
  • The NSG is a commando trained force Organisation in India and is used for special operations.
  • The CAPF forces battle terrorists, insurgents and naxalites and even play a role in the smooth conduct of elections.
  • CAPF which are tasked with doing the job of both the army and the police in guarding the borders as well as battling terrorists and insurgents are 365 days swinging Machine.
  • These personnel also serve in various important organisations such as Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Special Protection Group (SPG), National Investigation Agency (NIA), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) State Armed Police Force (Jharkhand Jaguars, Bihar Military Police etc.) on deputation and have attachment/training in various levels/formations/courses along with the Indian Army.
  • The CAPF’s are headed by DGP rank officers.

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