Fitness Alert: Following Assam Cops fitness drive, Haryana Govt issues diktat for ‘Overweight’ Cops

Digital Desk: Fitness drive has been taken on a serious note by the government, Following the Assam government's directive to police officers to work on their fitness, the Haryana government has issued a similar directive to its "overweight" officers to work on their bodies, otherwise, they will be transferred to Police Lines. Haryana police officers who are "overweight" and have pot bellies will be sent to Police Lines, according to an order issued by Haryana Home and Health Minister Anil Vij.

According to the directive, overweight police officers will be able to resume their work once they have regained their fitness.

"Keeping in view the fitness of the officers and personnel of Haryana Police, Home Minister Anil Vij has today issued written directions to the Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department that many of the police personnel in the police department have become overweight and should be transferred to the police line," an official statement from the home department said.

The state health minister gave written directions to the Additional Chief Secretary of the Home Department in this respect, with the fitness of police officers and workers in mind.

According to Anil Vij, the order was given when it was discovered that many police officers have become "overweight, and their weight is increasing over time."

Anil Vij said in a statement, "I would like all the police officers/ personnel who have become overweight to be transferred to the police queue and forced to exercise until they are fit for duty."

This move by the Haryana government comes just a few days after the Assam police department urged all of its officials to get in "shape or voluntarily retire". Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma met with senior police personnel in the state in April and directed them to "remove deadwood" from the force.

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