Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed the Central paramilitary forces including CRPF, BSF, ITBP  and others to undertake a mega manpower planning and ensure that around 7 lakh jawans get to spend at least 100 days with their families in a year.

Shah was given a presentation last month about the functioning of the Forces in the Ministry, following which he directed that the deployment details of the troops of these forces should be "digitised" so that better manpower rationalisation can be done, officials said.

The Union Home Ministry has now asked all the Directors General of the Forces to undertake the exercise and implement a regime where a jawan or a constable gets to stay with his family for about 100 days, they said.

The directive, when implemented, will ensure that the jawans will be posted to their nearest units and they can travel and stay with their families when there are no operational exigencies, an official said.

The forces' chiefs have been asked to assess and prepare reports of their additional manpower so that the overall deployment of a paramilitary unit is not affected. Unlike the paper file format, digitized data will make force headquarters' job easier to to rotate and deploy their troops.

The digital format will also help in ensuring that a large grievance of personnel regarding their transfer and posting to a place near to their parents or family home will be addressed up to a limit, he said.

The forces have been given a deadline of two months to implement the direvtive.

According to reports, an average jawan spends 75 days with his family in the BSF. Similar situation prevails in other forces due to lack of reserve component and continuous deployment.  Lack of family connect has been attributed to one of the many reasons putting the jawans under stress. Stressed out jawans also. At times, tend to indulge in fratricidal incidents even leading to casualties.

The move will give a significant relief to the jawans.