The Delhi police has got a shot in its arm with an increase of more than `500 crores in its Budget allocation for the financial year 2011-12, as compared to the last year. The overall allocation for the Delhi police this fiscal year is now `3,309.75 crores.
This year’s increase also comes as a welcome change from the last year’s budget allocation, when the Delhi police had received `127.50 crores less than the previous year’s allocation.
The total allocation last fiscal was `2, 836.53 crores.
Apart from `99 crores in plan expenditure, the Delhi police will get `3,210.75 crores for non-plan expenditure. The break-up of the Delhi police’s budget also includes `10 crores for construction of residential buildings for police personnel and `21 crores has been allocated for building offices.
The provisions for the development of traffic and communication network of the Delhi police have also seen an increase of `2 crores with `82 crores being earmarked for the purpose.
In 2010-11, a 100 per cent increase was seen in this head, as it had gone up from `40 crores to `80 crores. However, out of the allotted `80 crores in 2010-11, only `7 crores were spent.
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Scolded by mom, boy hangs self
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Feb. 28: A 13-year-old boy committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his room at his east Delhi residence after being allegedly scolded by his mother for not concentrating on his studies.
The police said the deceased boy, Gulshan Thakur, 13, a student of Class 8 at a government school in the area, was found hanging at his C2/6 New Ashok Nagar home on Monday afternoon by his family, who immediately rushed him to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital where doctors pronounced him brought dead.
The hospital administration made a PCR call. The deceased’s mother, Meera Thakur, told the police officials that she had scolded him in the morning for not focusing on his studies. “In the afternoon, when she went out, Gulshan went into his room and hanged himself,” a senior police officer said.
The police has not recovered any suicide note from house.