page_title: Central Police Canteen
section_title: Beneficiaries
hierarchical_section_title: Central Police Canteen / Beneficiaries
caption_attribution_description: English: Central Police Canteen in Kollam is situated inside the Armed Reserve Police Camp premises
context_page_description: The Central Police Canteen, officially known as the Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar, is a retail chain in India serving the active and retired personnel of the Central Armed Police Forces, the Central Police Organisations, and different state police forces and their families. Established on 26 September 2006 by an order of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the CPC works as an independent department under the Ministry. There are 119 master canteens and over 1,778 subsidiary canteens in the CPC system. Headed by an additional director general-rank officer, who is appointed by the Home Ministry on a rotation basis from the six CAPFs, the CPC is headquartered at Rama Krishna Puram, New Delhi. The routine affairs related to it are handled by its Chief Executive Officer, who is a deputy inspector general-rank officer.
  The products available at the CPC subsidiary canteens are not tax-exempt as they are in the Canteen Stores Department of the Ministry of Defence, and many petitions to the government have been made by different central and state organisations to extend such tax rebates to the CPC.
context_section_description: After its inception in 2006, the Central Police Canteen provided its services only to the active and retired personnel of the different CAPFs and their family members. However, different police organisations in the country approached the Ministry of Home Affairs every so often to extend the facility of the CPC to include their personnel as well. Keeping such requests under consideration, the Ministry promulgated an order on 18 October 2011 to enlarge the scope of beneficiaries of the CPC facility to include active and retired members of the various Central Police Organisations, including the Intelligence Bureau, the Bureau of Police Research and Development, the National Crime Records Bureau and the National Investigation Agency, the Special Protection Group, the National Disaster Response Force and the Central Bureau of Investigation, various state police forces, and the employees of the Home Ministry with service times of not less than five years.
caption: Subsidiary canteen at the Kerala Police Armed Reserve Police Camp, Kollam
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