Assam Police directs all its personnel to maintain body weight or retire.

The Assam DGP, GP Singh
on Tuesday announced the Assam Police in line with directions from Chief Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma, decided to go for professional recording of Body Mass
Index (BMI) of all Assam Police personnel including IPS/APS officers and all
DEF/Bn/Organisations.
The Director General of
Police GP Singh in a tweet stated that all police personnel will be given three
months time till August 15th to prepare for BMI assessment, which will start
within the next fifteen days.
"We plan to give
three months time to all Assam Police personnel including IPS & APS
officers till August 15th and then start BMI assessment in the next fifteen
days," DGP GP Singh tweeted.
He further stated that
those who are in the obese (BMI 30+) category would be offered another three
months to reduce weight (till November End) and following that, they would be
offered Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) option.
However, the DGP said,
those who have genuine medical grounds like hypothyroidism are exempted from
it.
He further announced
that he would be the first to have the BMI taken, i.e., on August 16.
The announcement comes
after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Assam Police personnel
who are “habitual drinkers” and “physically unfit” will be offered voluntary
retirement and their post will be filled up by new recruitment.
The CM in a meeting
earlier instructed the top cops to, "cut the deadwood out of the police
force."
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