CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
CRPF Valour Day: Observed on Apr 09
- Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Valour Day (Shaurya Diwas)is observed on 9 April every year, as a tribute to the brave men of the Force.
- 2021 marks 56th CRPF Valour Day.
- It was on this day in 1965, a small contingent of CRPF created history by defeating an invading Pakistani army, several times larger, at the Sardar Post located in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.
- The CRPF men eliminated 34 Pakistani soldiers and captured four alive.
- In the conflict, CRPF lost six personnel who had attained martyrdom.
- The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has saluted CRPF personnel, on its Valour Day .
- Prime Minister said, “The courage of CRPF is widely known. On CRPF Valour Day, I salute this brave force and remember the bravery of our CRPF personnel in Gujarat’s Sardar Patel Post in 1965.
