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In this episode of editorial, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses about the 10 suicides committed in the last 23 days by the CRPF jawans. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which is the world's largest central armed force, has reported 10 suicides among its jawans in the past 23 days in various states. This has led to a decision at the higher levels of the organization that the supervising officers in cases of such deaths will face consequences in their annual performance evaluations.
Suicides within the CRPF have been a concerning issue for several years, with 194 recorded cases between 2018 and 2022. These recent suicides have occurred in different units of the CRPF, including its specialized wing, the anti-Naxal unit CoBRA, and Jammu and Kashmir units, in locations such as Pulwama, Srinagar, Assam, Odisha, and Jharkhand. Among the victims is an inspector-level official from the elite CoBRA force.
This issue has been extensively discussed at all levels within the CRPF, and even Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed his concerns during a recent meeting. To address the increasing suicide rate among jawans, supervising officers will now bear more responsibility in preventing such incidents.
According to a senior CRPF official, any such incident will be noted in the supervising officer's annual performance report, which could negatively impact their chances of promotion.
The statistics are alarming. From 2018 to 2021, there was a notable increase in suicides among CRPF jawans, with 36 cases in 2018, 40 in 2019, 54 in 2020, and 57 in 2021. Although there was a slight decrease in 2022, with 43 suicides, this year has seen 10 jawan suicides between August 12 and September 4. Notably, 30% of the 34 suicides in the CRPF this year have occurred in the last 10 days.
Senior officials attribute many of these suicides to personal issues like family disputes, marital problems, illnesses, and a few cases related to professional reasons. Given the challenging and high-stress nature of CRPF duties, such as anti-militancy operations, anti-Naxal operations, election duties, and disaster relief, efforts are being made to create a conducive work environment and provide avenues for grievance redressal to minimize suicides within the force.
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In this episode of editorial, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses about the 10 suicides committed in the last 23 days by the CRPF jawans. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which is the world's largest central armed force, has reported 10 suicides among its jawans in the past 23 days in various states. This has led to a decision at the higher levels of the organization that the supervising officers in cases of such deaths will face consequences in their annual performance evaluations.
Suicides within the CRPF have been a concerning issue for several years, with 194 recorded cases between 2018 and 2022. These recent suicides have occurred in different units of the CRPF, including its specialized wing, the anti-Naxal unit CoBRA, and Jammu and Kashmir units, in locations such as Pulwama, Srinagar, Assam, Odisha, and Jharkhand. Among the victims is an inspector-level official from the elite CoBRA force.
This issue has been extensively discussed at all levels within the CRPF, and even Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed his concerns during a recent meeting. To address the increasing suicide rate among jawans, supervising officers will now bear more responsibility in preventing such incidents.
According to a senior CRPF official, any such incident will be noted in the supervising officer's annual performance report, which could negatively impact their chances of promotion.
The statistics are alarming. From 2018 to 2021, there was a notable increase in suicides among CRPF jawans, with 36 cases in 2018, 40 in 2019, 54 in 2020, and 57 in 2021. Although there was a slight decrease in 2022, with 43 suicides, this year has seen 10 jawan suicides between August 12 and September 4. Notably, 30% of the 34 suicides in the CRPF this year have occurred in the last 10 days.
Senior officials attribute many of these suicides to personal issues like family disputes, marital problems, illnesses, and a few cases related to professional reasons. Given the challenging and high-stress nature of CRPF duties, such as anti-militancy operations, anti-Naxal operations, election duties, and disaster relief, efforts are being made to create a conducive work environment and provide avenues for grievance redressal to minimize suicides within the force.
#CRPF #Jawan #IndianArmy #Army #Suicide #CRPFJawan #MentalHealth #JaiJawanJaiKisan #IndianSoldier #Soldier #Agniveer #AgnipathScheme #PMModi #SujitNair #HWNews
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00:00 Namaskar.
00:01 Welcome to another episode of Editorial.
00:04 Now, there are certain topics that one talks because those topics are relevant, they are
00:12 trending.
00:13 And like I normally say, there are certain topics that one talks that may not be trending,
00:18 that may not get views, that may not even generate interest, but that's important for
00:23 our country.
00:25 And today's topic is one such topic.
00:28 You see, 10 suicides were recorded in CRPF in the last 23 days.
00:35 10 suicides.
00:36 And this report is of September 5th, 2023.
00:41 Why are so many people committing suicide in CRPF?
00:45 Let's ask this question.
00:46 Let's get right into the show.
00:52 Now, the Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF, is the world's largest central armed police
01:02 force.
01:03 It is the world's largest.
01:04 Now, between 12th August and 4th September, that is two days back, 12th August and 4th
01:12 September, 10 people committed suicide.
01:16 This is alarming.
01:17 Now, it is not just now, this has been happening far too many times now.
01:22 For instance, the numbers are actually very alarming.
01:25 As per the official data, four-year period from 2018 to 2021, they registered a worrying
01:32 rise in suicide amongst CRPF.
01:35 In 2018, 36 jawans committed suicide, 40 in 2019, 54 in 2020, and 57 in 2021.
01:47 Now, in 2022, the numbers came down slightly, but it is still at 47.
01:55 This is the status currently.
01:57 Now, this is what we are talking about.
01:59 Now, I will also give you some more figures.
02:02 Now, let me talk to you about CAPF, that is Central Armed Police Force, CAPF.
02:09 What is CAPF?
02:10 CAPF is the combination of Central Reserve Police Force, that is CRPF.
02:15 It is a combination of Border Security Force, Shastra Seemabal, Indo-Tibetan Force, Central
02:21 Industrial Security Force, Assam Rifles and National Security Guard.
02:26 They put together.
02:27 That is the central CAPF.
02:29 And if you see CAPF, 1532 CAPF personnel committed suicide in the last 13 years.
02:38 This is alarming.
02:39 You know why this is alarming?
02:40 This is alarming because the forces committing suicide, the deaths due to suicide is more
02:48 than the death due to encounter, encounter with Naxalites or local riots or whatever.
02:53 Now, let me tell you, there was a task force set up.
02:56 This task force was supposed to figure out what is the issue, why are these suicides
03:02 being committed.
03:03 And this task force came out with a report which said that the discrimination among sub-groups,
03:09 the trauma of being abused, bullying at workplace, fear of initiation of disciplinary action
03:16 or legal action and the lack of communication between the company commander and the jawans
03:21 were some of the reasons cited by the task force formed to look into suicide cases in
03:27 CAPF.
03:29 Now the same task force says that among other reasons of suicide, the task force also recorded
03:36 that extended working hours, inadequate time to rest, recreation, lack of job satisfaction
03:43 as compared to their counterparts in other sectors, sense of isolation, lack of social
03:48 as well as familial support and lack of robust grievance re-addressal cell is the cause of
03:55 these suicides.
03:56 Now some reports, some reports claim that it has come to light that most of the suicide
04:02 that happens in the force are also attributed to reasons such as family disputes, marital
04:07 discords, other personal reasons, illness, besides a few instances where professional
04:13 reasons were involved.
04:14 So there is another report that says no, no, no, it is nothing to do with the professional
04:18 working environment.
04:19 Some of it are, but most of it are because of marital reasons and personal reasons and
04:22 so on and so forth.
04:24 Now the point that I am trying to make and why should it concern us is because a) these
04:30 are people who protect us.
04:32 See these two are people who put their lives on the line for us.
04:37 They are our first protection when it comes to a riot, when it comes to naxalism, when
04:43 it comes to terrorism, they are the first line of protection for us.
04:47 And it is imperative that we as a nation look after their benefit.
04:51 Now if you look at all the reasons narrated below, I have shown you some of it, there
04:57 are lot of it, but I have shown you most of it.
05:00 Most of these are HR related issues.
05:03 Not being given enough time to rest, not being given enough time to go to their family, have
05:09 a social and familial support, not being given enough time to have the me time or as they
05:16 call it the work life balance.
05:18 These are some of the issues that has come up.
05:22 The other issues are management issues.
05:25 Management issues where there is bullying in the unit, there is bullying in his office,
05:31 he is not given self-respect, there is no self-respect that they get.
05:35 The working environment is poor and most importantly, most importantly, this is based out of some
05:41 personal experiences dealing with police across the state.
05:45 My personal experience is the way a senior officer treats a junior officer.
05:51 A junior officer is almost treated like a slave, especially IPS officers, top officers
06:00 who comes as directly are planted as bosses in the units, the way they treat their subordinate
06:08 is at times borderlines inhuman, it borderlines inhuman.
06:14 And I am sure a lot of IPS professionals will agree to me, a lot of them will agree to me.
06:20 Because it depends a unit, when you walk into a unit, this is my personal experience, when
06:26 you walk into a unit, you can actually see, feel the unit.
06:29 If the unit commander is a good guy, is a person who treats people well, is a person
06:35 who believes in human resources and development, is a person who believes in creating a good
06:40 environment, that unit is very vibrant, is very good.
06:46 You have very energetic people in that unit.
06:49 But the moment and a lot of these officers are, the moment you have these officers who
06:54 do not care a damn about their people, who practices the worst human resources development
06:59 practices in their units, who treats their subordinates like dirt, if you go to this
07:05 unit, you can feel that in that unit, you can feel the discontent, the tension, the
07:13 complete, that unit, that environment tells you that nothing is right in that unit.
07:20 And you do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand this.
07:22 I have run companies and I know when I see management going wrong and that's precisely
07:28 what happens in some of these units.
07:30 While these, after the task force, there are certain steps that have been taken, no doubt
07:35 about it, some steps have been taken and the steps that have been taken are, they have
07:39 created something called as buddy system, where as far as the system, two jawans are
07:43 paired together for each other, so that there is a bond between two jawans, so that there
07:47 is some kind of a social interaction between these two people.
07:51 There is chowpal system where the CRPF personnel officers hold informal discussion, the boss
07:57 sits with the people and say, "Batao, kya batata hai?"
07:59 But I'll tell you, a lot of this I have also seen, maybe not of CRPF, but of police, but
08:04 I have also seen, you see, nobody has the guts to go, there is no free discussion and
08:08 all that happens, unless and until, like I told you, that officer is a real, real good
08:12 HR person who believes in human resources development.
08:15 Otherwise, you don't see all this kind of free inflow and outflow of discussion.
08:21 You know, all that doesn't happen.
08:22 You know, the discussion is restricted, you say anything wrong and the officer, you had
08:25 it.
08:26 So, the fact is, but all the same, the chowpal system has been followed, the grievance readdressal
08:31 system has been made effective and easier to access supervisory officer.
08:36 All these are said.
08:37 Now, I don't know how much of this actually happens on ground.
08:41 All these are said that you could go and talk to the top officers and all that, yeh sab
08:44 bola jaata hai.
08:45 But kitna hota hai, how much of it happens, one doesn't know.
08:49 The reason I said it is important for us is because 50,155 personnel have quit paramilitary
08:56 force in the last five years.
08:58 Half a lakh of people have quit paramilitary force in the last five years.
09:03 Now, imagine in a country like ours, where we have huge amount of unemployment, huge
09:08 amount of unemployment, half a lakh of people have quit their jobs in paramilitary and possibly
09:16 doing something else or maybe a lot of them doing nothing, jobless.
09:21 Imagine the level in which a person has been pushed.
09:26 It is very easy for a person to have developed tremendous amount of stress.
09:31 You see, the fact that when you need a leave because you need to visit your family, need
09:35 to see your mother, you get homesick, you may want to attend a family function, a sister's
09:41 wedding, when you don't get those leave and these people don't at times.
09:45 You see, it changes much more into a leave application.
09:49 That's when you snap and that's when a lot of these people snap.
09:52 And I tell you like again and again, I say, I've seen a lot of this happen.
09:56 I've seen a lot of this happen in a very close quarters.
10:00 I have three suggestions of my own.
10:03 Number one, during the UPSC training, during the IPS training, officers training, these
10:12 officers should be trained and should be given tremendous impetus, should be given on human
10:19 resources and development.
10:21 Managing a team, managing people, managing psychs, managing emotions, managing bonding,
10:28 these people should be given tremendous impetus on that.
10:30 That's my point number one.
10:31 My point number two is every unit should have a climate study, an environment climate study,
10:41 which normally a lot of corporates do.
10:43 Climate study will ensure that the top management, the top officers would come to know as to
10:48 how the unit is doing and whether people in that particular unit are happy or not.
10:53 It also gives an insight about the officer who is heading, the CEO, the commanding officer
10:58 who is heading that particular unit.
11:01 Last but not the least, the commander who is heading the unit or the officers.
11:07 In fact, the officers, there should be an evaluation system, there should be an appraisal
11:13 system for officers based on the unit environment.
11:18 If their environment is good, the officers should benefit out of it.
11:21 The officer should be given that plus point that he can manage an environment well.
11:26 And if the environment is bad, one will soon find out with two or three units when the
11:31 environment is bad and the officer is the same, you will immediately find out that the
11:36 officer is not capable to create good environment.
11:40 The officer is not a good manager.
11:42 You will immediately find that out.
11:46 The next time when you see a CRPF jawan or an SRPF jawan for that matter of fact, a paramilitary
11:52 person standing on the street, please understand that man is working as hard as any other police,
11:59 any other army personnel.
12:01 He is laying his life on the line.
12:04 He is laying his life on the line too.
12:07 The environment that he is working is as hard, maybe he is not in a minus 40 degree centigrade,
12:13 but the environment that he is working is as hard.
12:16 His working environment, his living environment is dumb.
12:19 At times they sleep in barracks where you can't even stand because of the sting.
12:26 They sleep in barracks like that.
12:28 At times they sleep in their vans.
12:31 So there is a genuine problem, there is a definite problem and this India has to be
12:36 aware of because they are us, they are Indians, we are responsible for them too.
12:42 Somehow as a country, we only seem to mourn, we only seem to bother about these jawans
12:50 when something bad happens to them.
12:52 When there is a Balakot or when there is a terrorist attack or when there is an exile
12:57 attack, only then we seem to be bothered about these jawans.
13:02 I think India should be bothered about them now and India should say that we are responsible
13:08 for them.
13:09 Their health, their well-being is the responsibility of our country.
13:14 That is the point why I wanted to do this editorial.
13:17 Till I see you next time, that is tomorrow at 10 pm.
13:21 Namaskar.
13:22 Namaskar.
13:24 Namaskar.
13:26 Namaskar.
13:28 Namaskar.
13:30 Namaskar.
13:32 Namaskar.
13:34 Namaskar.
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