Plan to create over 400 vacancies in Rly police

Chennai: Tamil Nadu government on Friday proposed to create over 400 new vacancies in Railway Police.

The move approved by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was necessitated due to strength not being increased for many years, a state government release here said.

Accordingly, she has directed reclassification of 19 police stations under Chennai Railway Police district and directed that 444 new posts including Inspectors and Sub-inspectors be created.

The government will incur an expenditure of Rs 11.46 crore following the move, the release said.

Meanwhile, in a seperate release, the government said Jayalalithaa had sanctioned Rs 4.50 crore for constructing five hostels for students of MBC and Denotified communities which will come up at Tanjavur and Villupuram among others.

PTI