New Delhi (NVI): The Centre today announced India’s top 10 best-performing police stations from across the country for the year 2020.
The police station that topped the list is Nongpok Sekmai police station in Thoubal district of Manipur.
The Government of India selects the best-performing police stations across the country every year, to incentivise more effective functioning and bring healthy competition.
The selection is done in accordance with the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with the directions of the Directors General of Police during the 2015 Conference in Kutch, Gujarat. The Prime Minister had directed that parameters should be laid down for grading police stations and assessing their performance based on feedback.
However, this year’s survey for the best police station was done by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) under challenging circumstances due to the ongoing coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.
Here are India’s top 10 police stations for the year 2020:
1. Nongpok Sekmai (Thoubal, Manipur)
2. AWPS-Suramangalam (Salem, Tamil Nadu)
3. Kharsang (Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh)
4. Jhilmili (Surajpur, Chhattisgarh)
5. Sanguem (South Goa, Goa)
6. Kalighat (North and Middle Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands)
7. Pakyong (East district, Sikkim)
8. Kanth (Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh)
9. Khanvel (Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Dadra and Nagar Haveli)
10. Jammikunta Town (Karimnagar, Telangana)
Home Minister Amit Shah said a vast majority of police stations short-listed from the thousands of police stations in the country are police stations located in small towns and rural areas.
The top 10 police stations were selected from a total of 16,671 police stations on certain parameters. From these, 75 police stations were selected for the next stage, out of which 10 were selected as the country’s best police stations.
A total of 4,065 respondents participated in the survey, the government said, while also acknowledging that all states and Union territories co-operated with it even during the pandemic period.
-CHK
