New Delhi, July 26: CRPF which is facing a dearth of bullet proof vehicles has taken inspiration from the Punjab Police and have created makeshift bullet proof vehicles that have come to the rescue of the security personnel in Kashmir.
For CRPF personnel involved in counter terror operation in the valley, it is survival of the fittest. A Herbert Spencer phrase for the Darwanian evolution seems to be true for CRPF troopers.
With 47 battalions of CRPF involved in the counter terror operations in Kashmir valley alone, the CRPF faces a deficit of about 400 bullet proof vehicles. Facing a deficit in bullet proof vehicles, CRPF has discovered its own ‘jugaad’.
The mechanism consists putting on a panel, a metal sheet on one side and wood on another side. A concrete mix is poured into the hollow fixing the panel.
The troopers than put different shapes and sizes of the panel to the inside and outside of the vehicles. A mechanism CPRF DG RR Bhatnagar says ” is working pretty well.”
“We have told our troopers to procure the material locally in order to safeguard its personnel who are otherwise exposed to risk in a conflict region,” he said.
The idea, however, is not original to CRPF. The idea was inspired from by Punjab Police who used a similar tactics during the 1980’s, using a bullet proof tractor to plough down the fields where the Sikh terrorist hid.
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