MHA has been allocated ₹2,33,210 crore, with a substantial enhancement in the budget for border infrastructure. File
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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been allocated ₹2,33,210 crore, with a substantial enhancement in the budget for border infrastructure and Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems (CCTNS), a key platform to implement the three criminal laws.
A total of ₹2,19,643.31 crore was allocated to the Ministry in the Budget for 2024-25 in July 2024 after the new government was sworn-in.
Border Infrastructure and Management has been allocated ₹5,597.25 crore, an increase of ₹1,840.74 crore from ₹3,756.51 crore allocated last year.
The provision is for putting up barbed-wire fencing, construction of roads and Observation Post Towers, installation of floodlights, induction of hi-tech surveillance along Bangladesh and Pakistan borders. The money will be spent on construction activities along international borders and for setting up mobile check posts in coastal areas for better surveillance to check illegal activities. The provision includes construction of border outposts.
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The component on Modernisation of Police Forces, which includes the CCTNS, is ₹4,069.24 against ₹3,720.13 crore in the last fiscal. This item contains provision for the schemes modernisation of State police force, assistance to States for special projects and schemes for upgrading police infrastructure and CCTNS.
The allocation for relief and rehabilitation for migrants and repatriates has been reduced from ₹539.72 crore to ₹123.66 crore. The provision is for rehabilitation of refugees from Sri Lanka who are staying in camps, expenditure on refugees from Tibet and former West and East Pakistan, relief and rehabilitation assistance to north-eastern States of Tripura, Assam, Mizoram, and Manipur and land boundary agreement between India and Bangladesh.
Funds for Census
A sum of ₹574.8 crore is allocated for Census Survey and Statistics/Registrar General of India this year compared to ₹1,309.46 crore in the July 2024 Budget. The Census has been indefinitely delayed and it was last held in 2011.
Of the allocation for the Ministry of Home Affairs, ₹1,60,391.06 crore has been given to central armed police forces such as Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force, and the Central Industrial Security Force, which are responsible for internal security, border guarding, and security of vital installations.
Among these, the CRPF gets the highest allocation of ₹35,147.17 crore, up from a revised estimate of ₹34,328.61 crore in 2024-25, followed by the BSF ₹28,231.27 crore (₹27,895.73 crore in 2024-25), the CISF ₹16,084.83 crore (₹15,272.22 crore in 2024-25), the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) ₹10,370 crore (₹9,861.14 crore in 2024-25), the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) ₹10,237.28 crore (₹9,834.59 crore in 2024-25) and the Assam Rifles ₹8,274.29 crore (₹7,855.23 crore in 2024-25).
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) gets ₹3,893.35 crore (₹3,966.21 crore in 2024-25), the Delhi police ₹11,931.66 crore (₹11,467.62 crore in 2024-25) and the Special Protection Group ₹489 crore (₹510.97 crore in 2024-25).
Published – February 01, 2025 11:16 pm IST
