Regimental Funds

Following Regimental Funds are maintained in CRPF.

(A) Welfare & Amenities Fund

1 Objects

• To meet the expenses incurred on the entertainment or purchases effected for the welfare of the Unit personnel.
• To extend immediate monetary assistance to the members or their families in the event of death, serious injury or sickness requiring prolonged and expensive treatment.
• To advance loans not exceeding one and half months basic pay at 6% simple interest to members for marriages in the family/house repairs, liquidation of debts, serious illness in the family, to incur expenditure at the time of admission of their children or any other purpose considered good and sufficient by the Managing Committee of the Fund.
• To sanction pay advance limited to one month's basic pay to those members who are not receiving pay for more than last 2 months or who have to proceed on duty just before the receipt of their pay. Also to sanction TA advance in emergent cases.
• To grant advances to meet urgent and immediate requirements of the detachments.
• To meet expenditure on Cinema, TV, Video Films, entertainment programmes etc.
• To meet expenditure on account of purchase of essential sports items.
• To meet expenditure on religious functions to the minimum extent as approved by the Unit Welfare Committee.
• To meet expenditure on account of payment of monthly band allowances to the band personnel, wherever band exists in the GC/Unit/institutions. Wherever the expenditure on account of band instruments, uniforms and on personnel cannot be met from the government fund, this fund would be utilized for such purposes.
• To meet the expenditure on account of purchase of essential requirements for various Messes of the Unit with due approval of the Unit Welfare Committee.
• To meet expenditure on any other welfare measure which are not covered in these rules and are considered suitable and justified by the CRPF Unit Welfare Committee.
• To meet expenditure on exhibition of the films through projectors for the recreation of the members of the Force.

(B) Central Welfare Fund

1 Objectives

a- Financial assistance to : -

• Families (NOKs) of members who may die while in service,
• Members of the Fund during sickness / hospitalization when no leave is at the credit of the member and member does not get any leave salary or allowances from Government,
• Members in distress or in dire need of financial assistance caused by the factors beyond the control.

b- Donation/grants/repayable advances to :-

• Any establishment / Unit of the CRPF including newly raising ones, for messes or any other welfare activities intended to promote the welfare of CRPF personnel / Force.
• Encourage sports and recreational facilities at Unit / Force level.
• Any Charitable Organization and Educational Institutions/Academy of repute, as a Goodwill gesture.
• Advances to the member for treatment of self or family members in emergent cases, to provide assistance in distress or dire need in specific cases caused by the factors beyond control of the members and for other purposes, in extreme emergency.

c- Any other objective as defined by the Governing Body

(C) Risk Fund

1 Objectives

The objects of this Fund are to provide financial benefits to :-

• The families of the members of the Force who die while in service.
• The members of the Force who are invalidated out from service and
• The member of the Force who retire/are retired/discharged/ dismissed/removed from the Force.

(D) Education Fund

1 Objectives

To provide educational assistance to the dependents of the members of the fund and to the children of deceased force personnel.

(E) Special Relief Fund

Special Relief Fund' has been created in this Directorate General, with the grant sanctioned by Govt. of India out of National Defence Fund and is governed by Central Welfare Fund Rules. Grant received from the Govt. had been invested with Nationalized Banks/Post Office and interest received on the deposits was being utilized for the welfare of force personnel through Education Fund/ Central Welfare Fund.

Thereafter, it was decided that the Corpus would be kept intact as per the MHA guidelines and the interest component should be kept with Special Relief Fund cash book separately to be used for providing suitable financial assistance to retired or serving personnel in cases of acute illness or loss due to natural calamities, besides other specific welfare activities.

Governing Body of Funds decided that a committee may examine the cases of financial assistance quarterly and take suitable decision. Accordingly, a permanent committee consisting of the following members is, hereby, constituted: -

4. The above committee will meet quarterly and decide the cases of financial assistance after scrutiny of the cases. The committee would submit its recommendation to Director General, whose decision would be final. The assistance (grant) will be provided from Special Relief Fund as under: -

i.For treatment of specific diseases of self and spouse of retired personnel once in a life time on the principle of rarest of rare case but the assistance will not exceed Rs. 50,000/-(Rupees fifty thousand) per case.

ii.The financial assistance (grant) in disease like cancer, tumour, renal disease, kidney transplantation, heart disease, liver transplantation may be provided to retired personnel as per Para-(i) above.

iii.The financial assistance (grant) so provided will be put up before annual Governing Body meeting for their ratification.

5. Besides providing financial assistance to retired or serving personnel, the Fund will also be utilized for various welfare activities in the Force, as decided by the Governing Body of CWF from time to time.

F SUBSCRIPTION TOWARDS CWF (w.e.f. 01/01/2013)

The subscription of January in respect of officers will be sent to Force Officers' Mess every year in the same month i.e. January.