The panel also emphasised the filling up of all vacancies on mission mode in central armed police forces and Assam Rifles. There were 83,127 vacancies in the CAPFs and AR as on January 1, 2023. Of these, 1,666 vacancies existed in AR, 19,987 in BSF, 19,475 in CISF, 29,283 in CRPF, 4,443 in ITBP and 8,273 in SSB, the report said.
