NEW DELHI – India is worried with the rising trend of voluntary retirementand resignations in paramilitary forces. Border Security Force and CentralReserve Police Force, in particular, has seen the most outflow of personnel.

6415 BSF officials exit service in 2017. The same is true for CRPF whichsaw the exit of 1376 personnel in 2015 but 5123 left in 2017.

The trend is similar in the case of Indo-Tibetan Border Police, SashastraSeema Bal (SSB), Central Industrial Security Force and Assam Rifles aswell. While 76 personnel quit or voluntarily retired from ITBP in 2015, thenumber rose to 305 in 2017. SSB (183 in 2015 and 548 in 2017), CISF (768 in2015 and 1560 in 2017) and Assam Rifles (113 in 2015 and 636 in 2017) haveall reported similar trends.

Assam Rifles, in particular, has reported that personnel have left citingseveral reasons including personal, family, health, social as well asenhanced pensionary benefits after 20 years in service.

A career in India’s paramilitary forces is mostly seen as one whichrequires enormous determination and sacrifice. In the past, there have beenseveral instances however where personnel have alleged long work hours intesting conditions, being denied leaves and not being provided adequatefacilities while on duty.