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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
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MI-17 helicopters to fly from Gadchiroli as State earmarks 42-acre land for helipad

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Anti-naxal operations gets boost as police force gets land in Gadchiroli MIDC


By Dheeraj Fartode
In a major boost to anti-naxal operation in dense forest areas of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has sanctioned a land admeasuring 42 acres to develop helipad in Gadchiroli. The new helipad is being erected for use by MI-17 helicopters which are being deployed against the red outlaws by the Government. At present there are two other helipad but they are being utlised for operations of smaller helicopters.
Special Inspector General of (Gadchiroli Range) Ravindra Kadam confirmed the development and said it would definitely support police force in their operations against the naxals. 
MI-17 helicopters to fly from Gadchiroli
The police force is currently using Dauphin helicopters in Gadchiroli area for airlifting the injured police personnel to Nagpur for advanced treatment. The helipads are at Aheri and another is in Gadchiroli town. Maximum capacity of this helicopter is five persons. Hence the force sometimes felt disappointed for not being able to airlift all the injured personnel in one go.
A senior officer said, it becomes very difficult exercise in case of emergency as the helicopter is not useful for transportation of more police personnel at a time. Government had given its nod for use MI-17 from Pawanhans. However we did not had a big piece of land in Gadchiroli area to develop a helipad, he claimed. As the size of the helicopter i.e. 60 feet 7 inch is double than previous Dauphin helicopter, it also needs a big helipad. 
The force identified MIDC land for development of helipad as they found it very convenient. Regional Officer of MIDC, Vijay Bhakre told ‘The Hitavada’ that MIDC has sanctioned 42 acres of land at MIDC, Gadchiroli, last week. The land was first allocated to Surjagad Cement company about seven years ago. But the company failed to utilise the land and hence MIDC cancelled the allotment. The company went to court against MIDC but the decision has come in our favour.
Bhakre further informed that the land is allocated at rate of Rs 25 per square meter. 

About MI-17

As per the Government’s direction, the MI-17 helicopter would not be used fitted with weapons and would be strictly used only for transportation operations, including airlifting of injured in medical emergency, strategic movement of personnel and other general purposes. Sources informed that MI-17 would be operated for commando assault tasks, ferrying supplies and personnel to remote mountain helipads, carrying out SAR (Search and Rescue Operations) and logistic support tasks. The helicopter have capacity to fly with 15 personnel along with 4,000 kg cargo. Empty weight of the helicopter is 7,489 kg while loaded weight is 11,100 kg. 

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