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CRPF jawans banned from playing PUBG

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 IST

Company commanders have been instructed to conduct random checks to ensure that CRPF jawans have deleted PUBG from their smartphones.

HIGHLIGHTS

-- PUBG addiction is affecting CRPF jawans.

-- CRPF jawans have stopped socialising due to PUBG.

-- CRPF jawans have been banned from playing PUBG.

PUBG has grown notoriously popular in the past few months. The addictive behaviour associated with the game -- Player Unknown's Battegrounds or PUBG as it is popularly called -- has even prompted some children to commit suicide. Now, a new report suggests that PUBG addiction is affecting our security forces owing to which the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans have been banned from playing the mobile game.

A senior CRPF officer posted in New Delhi told News18 that the CRPF jawans had been barred from playing PUBG. This had been done owing to the fact that PUBG "addiction had affected jawan's operational capabilities."

The senior CRPF officer told the publication that many younger personnel in the CRPF troops have grown addicted to PUBG due to which they had stopped socialising with their fellow jawans. The PUBG addiction had also led to sleep deprivation in CRPF jawans, which in turn had led to reduced physical activity.

"It's getting these men addicted to it and getting them engaged to a great extent which is affecting their ops performance, aggressive and attitudinal issues," the order issued earlier this month states.

Now, all deputy inspectors-general have been instructed to ensure that all jawans in their unit delete or deactivate PUBG from their smartphones. To ensure that the jawans have followed the order and the app has been deleted, company commanders have been instructed to conduct random checks of the jawans' smartphones.