New Year gift: This State Raises Accidental Death Insurance Cover for Police Personnel to Rs 78 Lakh
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava on Saturday announced an increase in the insurance cover for police personnel, raising it from Rs 30 lakh to Rs 78 lakh in case of accidental deaths and Rs 5 lakh to Rs 28 lakh for those who died a natural death. The insurance cover for suicide victims has also been raised to Rs 10 lakh, he said.
Extending greetings on the occasion of New Year, Shrivastava said all policemen above 40 years would undergo compulsory medical checkups so that any ailment could be timely diagnosed and treated. The commissioner said the year gone by was challenging and the police personnel were mentally, physically and officially over-stretched due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Insurance cover for natural deaths has been raised from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 28 lakh, while the cover for accidental deaths has been raised to Rs 78 lakh from Rs 30 lakh. “Though no family wishes to be compensated in financial terms, yet in unfortunate incident, a provision of Rs 10 lakh has been made to help the family in suicidal cases,” he said in a statement. “Being frontline warriors, as many as 7,612 police personnel got infected. Out of them, 7,424 personnel recovered and resumed their duty, yet we lost 32 of our colleagues due to corona pandemic,” the commissioner said in the statement.
Amid pandemic outbreak, as many as 7,612 Delhi Police personnel got infected by Covid, however, 7,424 recovered but as many as 32 succumbed to the virus.
Apart from this, the Delhi Police lost 231 of its personnel due to natural deaths, 44 due to accidental deaths and 14 committed suicide in the previous year.
With Inputs From PTI & Agencies
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