Odisha CM urges PM Modi to waive off deployment charges of CRPF in state ANI | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 16:05 IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 29 (ANI): Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi for waiving of Rs 4,561 crore charges for the deployment of Central Armed Police Forces in Odisha. The then Union Home Minister in his letter on August 25, 2015, had intimated that there had been no change in the extant policy of the Government as approved earlier by the Cabinet Committee on security. As such, all States except the few Special Category States, viz., North-East, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, are required to bear full charges for the deployment of CAPFs in their states, he said in his letter.