Lucknow, 15 June (HS): Home Minister Amit Shah will reach the

Defense Expo Ground in the capital Lucknow shortly. CM Yogi Adityanath will

also be present with him. He will hand over appointment letters to the newly

selected police constables. Before this, all preparations for the program have

been completed. Appointment letters will be distributed to 60,244 newly

selected constables of the police department in UP today. Union Home Minister

Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will hand over the appointment

letters. Earlier, DGP Rajiv Krishna inspected the Defense Expo ground along

with senior officials and gave necessary instructions.

The DGP said that Union Home

Minister Amit Shah is the chief guest at the event. Along with CM Yogi

Adityanath, he will give appointment letters to the newly selected constables

coming from all over the state. Extensive arrangements have been made for this.

From their home districts to the event venue, we have designated an

intermediate district where they will stay overnight. 48,196 male and 12,048

female candidates have been selected for the post of constable civil police. A

total of 48.17 lakh applications were received for the examination conducted by

the Police Recruitment and Promotion Board, out of which 15.49 lakh were women.

The highest number of candidates were selected from Agra (2,349). 1,145

candidates have also been selected from other states like Bihar, Madhya

Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi etc.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi