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Govt. may appoint 9,000 policemen

By Our Staff Correspondent

HASSAN DEC. 21. The Home Minister, M. Mallikarjuna Kharge, on Saturday said the Government was contemplating appointing 9,000 police personnel, including 2,000 women, in the next six months.

Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the building of the police station in Arkalgud, he said the appointments would be made in the current financial year.

He said the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, had approved a proposal from the Home Ministry to increase the strength of home guards from 17,000 to 25,000. The Government had taken up development programmes to encourage the home guards and fire fighters in the State.

The Congress Government had made several changes in the Police Department. The recruitment of candidates to the post of sub-inspector had become transparent, he said.

Regretting the alleged obstructions posed by his own party leaders in electing a Dalit women as President of the Arkalgud Taluk Panchayat, he said the incident showed that nothing had changed even after 56 years of Independence.

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