With an aim to provide intense training, research, and development along with policymaking, the Central Government has planned to establish a world-class National Police University. The university will work on the domains of education and research which includes policing, law enforcement and related areas of internal security and public safety.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the university will offer courses in Police Sciences, Cyber Forensics, Risk Management, and Criminology. The university will be funded by the government of India and the university will function upon the Legislation of the National Police University Bill in the Parliament.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has also stated that in order to modernize police the central government allocates funds as support incentives to the state governments for the implementation of police reforms under the schemes of the Assistance to State for Modernization of Police. The central government is consistently focusing on modernizing the police and police reforms and the university will also be a part of it.
Central assistance will be provided to the state governments for weapons, equipment for forensics, information technology, communication, training, etc as part of the scheme. The ministry has also added that in order to facilitate the targeted interventions, mobility and construction of police infrastructure which includes housing permits in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, insurgency affected North Eastern Stated and Left Wing Extremism affected districts.
The statement released by the MHS further stated that three Himalayan states which include Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and eight of the North-Eastern states including Sikkim are eligible to receive the financial assistance on 90:10 Centre: State sharing ratio.
The other remaining stated according to the statements is eligible for financial assistance on a 60:40 Centre: State sharing ratio. Specific projects have been planned for the North-Eastern region along with an approved central outlay for the three year period from 2017 to 2020.
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