{"id":34091,"date":"2023-03-26T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T00:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34091"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T03:21:12","slug":"84th-crpf-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/84th-crpf-day\/","title":{"rendered":"84th CRPF Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the Broad gamut of duties performed by the CRPF?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary: 85th CRPF Foundation Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Key highlights of the speech delivered by Union Home Minister at the 84th CRPF day<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended the 84<sup>th<\/sup> Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Day in Chhattisgarh\u2019s Bastar district.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>What is Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CRPF is one of the oldest Central para military forces (now termed as Central Armed Police Force) and it comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/li>\n<li>CRPF came into existence as Crown Representative\u2019s Police on 27th July 1939.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It became the Central Reserve Police Force on enactment of the CRPF Act in December 1949.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is All India in character, both in deployment and in its composition.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CRPF has, over the years, acquired the distinction of being perhaps the most acceptable Force, by the people and the State administrations.\n<ul>\n<li>This is due to its unique capability to quickly adapt to various situations, and also, to work in perfect harmony with the State Police.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>What are the Broad gamut of duties performed by the CRPF?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Crowd &amp; Riot control<\/li>\n<li>Counter Militancy \/ Insurgency operations\/Dealing with Left Wing Extremism<\/li>\n<li>Overall co-ordination of large-scale security arrangement especially with regard to elections in disturbed areas.<\/li>\n<li>Protection of VIPs and vital installations.<\/li>\n<li>Checking environmental de-gradation and protection of local Flora and Fauna<\/li>\n<li>Fighting aggression during War time<\/li>\n<li>Participating in UN Peace Keeping Mission<\/li>\n<li>Rescue and Relief operations at the time of Natural Calamities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary: 85th CRPF Foundation Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on the occasion of 84th CRPF Day, lauded the contributions of CRPF to the internal security of the nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Key highlights of the speech delivered by Union Home Minister at the 84<sup>th<\/sup> CRPF day<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For the first time CRPF Day is being celebrated in a Naxalite area. CRPF has contributed to the internal security of the nation.<\/li>\n<li>CRPF has shown its best during past elections in the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CRPF has fought against Naxals and has brought them down in many areas of the country.<\/li>\n<li>It was due to the CRPF personnel who died fighting Maoists that the nation was in the last phase of achieving victory against the insurgency in the tribal state.\n<ul>\n<li>There is a 76 per cent decrease in Naxal activities as compared to 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Union Home Minister praised and thanked the 75 CRPF women personnel who embarked on a bike ride from Delhi and travelled over 1,800 km to reach Bastar.<\/li>\n<li>The minister also highlighted the humanitarian works by CRPF in Naxal regions.\n<ul>\n<li>CRPF set up over 110 medical camps in Naxal-affected areas and provided help to 18,000 tribals with free medicines worth crores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Left Wing Extremism?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Left-wing extremism (LWE) is a term used to describe political ideologies and movements that seek to create a society based on principles of socialism, communism, or anarchism, and that use violent or illegal means to achieve their goals. Left-wing extremist groups often oppose capitalist economic systems and advocate for the redistribution of wealth and resources to the working class and marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2)<\/strong> <strong>What was Crown Representative\u2019s Police ?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Crown Representative&#8217;s Police (CRP) was a British government agency that existed between 1921 and 1925. Its primary role was to assist the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in maintaining law and order in Ireland during a period of heightened political tensions and violence known as the Irish War of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/union-home-minister-amit-shah-lauds-contribution-of-crpf-to-internal-security-of-nation\/article66660076.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Union Home Minister Amit Shah lauds contribution of CRPF to internal security of nation<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/fight-maoist-insurgency-full-credit-crpf-amit-shah-chhattisgarh-bastar-8518169\/#:~:text=Union%20Home%20Minister%20Amit%20Shah%20on%20Saturday%20attended%20the%2085th,insurgency%20in%20the%20tribal%20state.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/union-home-minister-amit-shah-lauds-contribution-of-crpf-to-internal-security-of-nation\/1471308\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The Print<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRPF assists in maintaining law and order, counter insurgency, and maintains security in a region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}