{"id":61939,"date":"2025-07-16T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=61939"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:38:50","slug":"mha-approves-20-new-crpf-battalions-for-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/mha-approves-20-new-crpf-battalions-for-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"MHA approves 20 new CRPF Battalions for J&#038;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 16: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has given a go-ahead to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for 20 new battalions in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>It is learnt that this will add over 20,000 personnel for deployment in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the CRPF had asked for the approval for 35 battalions, but the Government has sanctioned 20 as an immediate measure, after the April 22 Pahalgam carnage and subsequent \u2018Operation Sindoor\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Finance has given a green signal to the proposal, and Union Cabinet approval is expected at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>As per the reports, the new battalions will be heavily equipped with enhanced operational capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Additional CRPF personnel are expected to be deployed across the UT soon to play an imperative part in assisting local police in law and order and anti-terror operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 16: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has given a go-ahead to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for 20 new battalions in Jammu&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61939","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61941,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61939\/revisions\/61941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}