High Attrition Among All The Forces

New Delhi, Mar 5 : At the time when the government is on the recruitment drive to increase the strength of the central police organizations, it has witnessed resignation and voluntary retirement of as many as 14,576 personnel within an year in 2009 with the BSF reporting the highest attrition among all the forces.

Figures furnished by the minister of state for home affairs Ajay Maken to the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday showed that total 6,537 officers and jawans of the BSF had either resigned or sought retirement from the border force last year.

The CRPF, which is the main counter-insurgency force in the country, is at the second spot in terms of reporting high number of attrition among forces.

A total of 3,855 personnel of the force had either sought voluntary retirement or resigned during the period. It is followed by the Assam Rifles with 1,280 personnel, CISF with 1,196 and ITBP with 957. In the Intelligence Bureau, 149 personnel had sought VRS or resigned in 2009.

As far as cases of suicides are concerned, 28 CRPF personnel committed suicide last year as compared to 26 such cases in BSF. The incidence of fratricide was the highest in Assam Rifles with six such cases last year, followed by CRPF with five.