NAGPUR: An order increasing the salaries of police personnel posted in the Naxalite-affected Gadchiroli district would be issued within two days, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said in Nagpur on Saturday.
Fadnavis, who handles the home portfolio and is guardian minister of this eastern Maharashtra district held a meeting of the District Planning Committee in Gadchiroli city earlier in the day. The decision on increasing the salaries of police personnel in the district one-and-half times was pending, he told reporters.