Tripura Tribal Areas to get its own police force, TTADC passes resolution

The Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council has passed three resolutions and four Bills in the council on Friday, including a bill for the creation of an unarmed police force for the district council areas.

Animesh Debbarma, Member, Deputy Chief Executive said all the seven Bills and resolutions tabled in the council were passed without any opposition with healthy discussions. Among the Bills, the police Bill assumed significance as for the first time any of the sixth schedule autonomous bodies of Northeast India, TTAADC has taken a step to raise its own police force.

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Reacting on the matter, Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance Chairman Pradyot Deb Barma said the police bill had been placed for discussion and passage to ensure that a certain amount of law order situation comes under the control of the district council administration.

As per sources, a bill was passed in 1994 by the TTAADC to raise a separate unarmed police force. It became an act after the then governor Siddheswar Prasad gave his assent to the Bill three years later.

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The office of the then Governor had asked the TTAADC to frame necessary rules for the purpose. And, the present TTAADC administration will only do the remaining task.

This will be the first such incident where an autonomous body of North East India formed under the sixth schedule will constitute its own police force.