KENDRIYA POLICE KALYAN BHANDAR (KPKB)

The Central Police Canteen (commonly earlier, abbreviated as the CPC), presently, officially known as the Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar (KPKB) ( Central Police Welfare Stores) is a retail chain in India serving the active and retired personnel of the Central Armed Police Forces, the Central Police Organizations, and different state police forces and their families.

The set up was established on 26 September 2006 by an order of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the CPC works as an independent department under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Presently, there are 119 master canteens (Approximately) and over 1,778 subsidiary canteens (Approximately) are activated in the KPKB system. Its headed by an additional director general (ADG) rank officer, who is appointed by the Home Ministry on a rotation basis from the six CAPFs. The KPKB headquarter is 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.

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.

The products available at the KPKB subsidiary canteens are not tax-exempted as compare to Canteen Stores Department (CSD) of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and many petitions to the government have been made by different central and state organisations to extend such tax rebates to the KPKB.

The KPKB is in the process of promoting indigenous products following the call for Atmanirbhar Bharat by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.