While the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) gears up to take over the responsibility of tackling insurgency in the N-E region, the force is going to set up a school where jawans will get specialised training.Giving details, CRPF IGP (N-E) Raj Deep Singh said here today that the strength of the force was being raised to 200 battalions, which would be completed by the end of 2005.The school would be on the lines of the Army’s Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJW) at Vairangte in Mizoram which has also attracted US army commandoes in the recent months. Singh said the Army and the BSF were being gradually phased out from counter-insurgency and internal security assignments. In Manipur, one of the worst insurgency-ridden states, for instance, four new battalions of the CRPF have been already deployed replacing the Army, he said.
