People-friendly operations by CRPF

TURA, April 8: The 72 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) which has been deployed in all the three districts of Garo Hills since October 1999, has been, besides taking up counter-insurgency operations and maintaining law-and-order situations, conducting a series of people-friendly activities. The battalion has adopted two villages, near Tura which are underdeveloped, to ease the economic condition of the villagers. The two villages, namely, Asipara and Ringre Songital, have now got the privilege of getting some assistance. Recently, the battalion personnel led by its Command SS Mann donated free school books and other stationery besides sports items to schoolchildren of Wood Stock English School. Mann said that lack of economic development should be overcome for a better future for the children. He assured the gathering that the CRPF would assist the people in every possible way to overcome their economic problems. The battalion also conducted a free medical camp for the villagers recently and has plans to build a bridge across the Ringre river for the children and villagers to use during the monsoons when the water level rises. The battalion has also been involved in pulse polio immunisation camps and donation of blood to the needy.