State Disaster Response Force

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J&K State Disaster Response Force (SDRF)

The erstwhile Homeguards came into existence after Indo-Pak war in 1965 and were put on consolidated wages. They immediately started showing their existence through protracted training programmes and call-up duties, as such they were organised into two Battalions Ist & 2nd and brought under graded pay scale on Ist June 1979. Due to their excellent performance and sincerity both the Battalions were made permanent by the State Govt. thus bringing them at par with regular employees of the Force. During the year 1989 when the voluntary Homeguards scheme prevalent in the country was introduced in the State also, the nomenclature of these two battalions was conspicuously changed as Aux. Police. The man power of these battalions is spread out in whole of the state with almost a coy in each of the districts. The coys have been deployed on static guard duties, law and order duties, traffic duty and security duty also.
Vide Govt. Order No. 159(HG)-Home of 2012 dated 21-02-2012, the existing two Battalions of Auxiliary Police were converted as Jammu & Kashmir State Disaster Response Force (SDRF).


Civil Defence

Civil Defence in India owes its origin to the erstwhile Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Organisation raised and operated during World War-II by the Ministry of Defence to safeguard the life and property of the civilian population and also to maintain the continuity of production and economic activity of the nation during the war time. Subsequent to the Chinese aggression in 1962 and Indo-Pak conflict in 1965, there was a considerable rethinking about the policy and scope of Civil Defence which culminated in the Civil Defence Act of 1968.

The aims of Civil Defence as enshrined in the Civil Defence Act, are to

1. to save life;
2. to minimize the damage to the property
3. continuity of production; and
4. to keep up the high morale of public

during any hostile attack whether from air, land, sea and other such places.