2012 - Bureau of Police Research and Development

CHAPTER 5POLICE BUDGETExpenditure on States/UTs Police & Central Police ForcesState Wise Data on:• Police Expenditure• Training Expenditure• Modernization Grants• Housing ExpenditureLaw & Order and Police are state listsubjects as per division of subjects betweenthe Union & the States, under our constitution(Schedule-VII). Therefore, States are competentand responsible for maintenance of PoliceForce according to their requirement.This chapter attempts to provideinformation regarding the total Budget forStates, Expenditure of States/UTs Police Forces,,Police Training Expenditure, expenditure ofsome Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)maintained by the Government of India,Modernization Grants made available to policeby the Central Government and the StateGovernments and Police Housing Expenditurealong with percentage level of satisfaction offamily accommodation.Police Expenditure as %age of TotalState BudgetData on total budget for States has beenreceived from 26 States/UTs only. Using thisdata Police Expenditure as percentage of StateBudget has been estimated for 26 states. Atnational level the trend for police expenditureas percentage of State Budget comes out tobe 2.70.Details are given in Table No. 5.1 (PageNo. 85)Expenditure on Central Armed PoliceForces (CAPFs)Central Armed Police Forces are raised andmaintained by the Ministry of Home Affairs,Government of India to perform duties likeguarding of International borders of the country,providing security to the vital installations andrendering need based assistance to the States/UTs for the maintenance of Law and Order andInternal Security. Railway Protection Force,maintained by the Ministry of Railways has alsobeen included in this category. Its role is limitedto providing security and maintenance of orderon Railways and their passengers/goods areasalong with the Government Railway Police(GRP) of the states as per defined demarcationof their role.Data on some Central Armed Police Forces(CAPFs) for the last 9 years i.e. from 2003-04 to2011-12, has been tabulated in Table No. 5.2(page No. 86).An analysis of data on CAPFs for last 4years as shown below, reveals an increase of67.3% in the expenditure of Central ArmedPolice Force (CAPFs) from Rs. 18017.61 croresin 2008-09 to 30151.45 crores in 2011-12 at allIndia level.The maximum increase of 170.2% wasobserved in National Security Guard (NSG)followed by (76.5%) in Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) and (70.6%) in Central IndustrialSecurity Force (CISF) during the last fouryears.CPFs 2008-09 2011-12 % ChangeAssam Rifles 2018.23 3214.62 59.3%Border Security Force 5462.22 8738.48 60.0%central Industrial2170.22 3702.90 70.6%Security ForceCentral Reserve Police 5477.87 9667.39 76.5%ForceIndo-Tibetan Border 1437.58 2199.92 53.0%PoliceNational Security210.45 568.72 170.2%GuardRailway Protection 1408.16 NA NAForceSashtra Seema Bal 1241.37 2059.42 65.9%Total 19426.10 30151.45 67.3%Note: Excludes Railway Protection Force81