For First Time, Sweepers, Peons In Paramilitary Force CRPF Get Promotion
NDTV
A 'rank piping' ceremony was held at various offices of the force including for a dozen personnel at the headquarters in Delhi on Monday.
In a first, a total of 217 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel serving in the lowest rung of the paramilitary force as sweepers and peons were given promotions and piped with their new ranks. #सीआरपीएफ के इतिहास में एक और स्वर्णिम अध्याय!बल में पहली बार, कॉन्स्टेबल से हेड कॉन्स्टेबल के पद पर २१७ मंत्रालयिक कैडर के सफाई कर्मचारी/दफ्तरी/फर्राश/प्यून की पदोन्नति।इस अवसर पर #CRPF मुख्यालय में आयोजित #PippingCeremony के दौरान बल के १२ कार्मिकों को रैंक लगाया गया।… pic.twitter.com/ZsfbqedFxf
A 'rank piping' ceremony was held at various offices of the force including for a dozen personnel at the headquarters in Delhi on Monday.
The move came about after the Union government earlier this year had given a green signal to promote 2,600 personnel working in the ministerial cadre of sweepers, cooks and water carriers -- the lowest rung of the constabulary that constitutes an essential backbone of the CRPF -- in the 85-year-old history of the country's largest paramilitary force.
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