NEW DELHI: Taking voluntary initiative to support families of security personnel who lost their lives in anti-naxal or anti-terror operations or maintaining law and order, IAS officers will adopt all such families to ensure that their children get good education and other family members get timely financial assistance/compensation that is due to them under government's compensatory policy Proposing an institutional arrangement for this purpose, an association of IAS officers from across the country has decided that each member of this premier all-India service will adopt one family of the martyred security personnel (defence, central armed police forces and state police) and handhold them as a pillar of support for 5-10 years of period. The adopted family may preferably be from the state (cadre) to which the officer belongs to. If the dependent family members are interested in starting some sort of business or a Start-up, the IAS officers will also help them out through financial institutions. "Senior officers, or those from state civil services, can also adopt such families voluntarily," said Bhoosreddy, a joint-seecretary level IAS officre who is currently posted here as a chief vigilance officer of the MMTC - a central PSU. "We are requesting the state governments and the central government to issue necessary instructions in this regard to all concerned so that this arrangement gets institutionalised at the earliest.

Source: Times of India April 28, 2017 16:58 UTC