{"id":8708,"date":"2022-10-31T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T07:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:07:51","slug":"central-reserve-police-force-crpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/central-reserve-police-force-crpf\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is the premier central police force of the Union of India for internal security.<\/li>\n<li>It functions under the authority of the\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>History of CRPF<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Originally constituted as the\u00a0<strong>Crown Representative Police in 1939,<\/strong>\u00a0it is one of the oldest Central para military forces (now termed as Central Armed Police Force).<\/li>\n<li>CRPF was raised as a sequel to the political unrest and the agitations in the then princely States of India following the Madras Resolution of the All-India Congress Committee in 1936 and the ever-growing desire of the Crown Representative to help the vast majority of the native States to preserve law and order as a part of the imperial policy.<\/li>\n<li>It became the Central Reserve Police Force on enactment of the\u00a0<strong>CRPF Act\u00a0<\/strong>on 28th December 1949.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Duties performed by the CRPF are<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Crowd control, Riot control<\/li>\n<li>Counter Millitancy \/ Insurgency operations, Dealing with Left Wing Extremism<\/li>\n<li>Overall co-ordination of large scale security arrangement specially 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<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Prime-Minister-praises-plantation-drive-of-Central-Reserve-Police-Force-jawans&amp;id=450083#:~:text=Prime%20Minister%20Narendra%20Modi%20has,has%20planted%2075%20thousand%20trees.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newsonair<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRPF is the premier central police force of the Union of India for internal security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}