West Bengal CM hands appointment letters to 12,000 police constables, promises 9,000 more recruitments

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister on Monday handed over appointment letters to 12,000 police constables both in West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, on the eve of Durga Pujas in Kolkata. Meanwhile, the Chief minister, in another programme, said around 5,000 water bodies in and around Kolkata were illegally filled up for real estate purposes in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime in West Bengal.

The Chief Minister said that there will be 9,000 additional recruitments in the police department soon. “Had Mamata Banerjee come to the power for the

“I promise that soon West Bengal will surpass Uttar Pradesh both in terms of police personnel and the police-to-public ratio. In UP, the police-to-public ratio in Uttar Pradesh is 200 cops for every one lakh of population,” the Chief Minister said.


On handing over the appointment letters to 12,000 police constables, CM Adhikari said that recruitments in the police department were stuck midway due to flawed Other Backward Class (OBC) policy of the previous ruling dispensation. “Now we have corrected those flaws, cleared the appointment process and appointment letters have been handed over to the successful candidates. More will be done in the coming days,” the Chief Minister said.