jaipur unlike maharashtra andhra pradesh and madhya pradesh rajasthan government is not offering any incentives to the policemen so as to encourage them to join antiterrorist squad ats lack of incentive scheme has proved to be major hiccup for the department due to which talented policemen are not willing to join ats and thus delaying the complete formation of the squad according to sources madhya pradesh government has offered incentive in form of 60 per cent of the basic pay to the policemen joining ats similarly maharashtra and andhra pradesh is paying additional 50 per cent of the basic pay to promote more and more policemen to join the atson the issue of lack of interest among policemen in joining ats a senior police official said that department should offer something extra to the people in order to encourage them to shift from routine policing to ats working of ats is far different from the normal policing it involved high level of stress and risk to life why would anyone expose himself to tough conditions without any incentives he asked the state government woke up after the recent mumbai terror attacks when it saw policemen fighting the sophisticated armed terrorists with old 303 rifles and lathis soon after which state government held series of meetings with home department and police department and directed them to prepare a proposal to make the ats more sophisticated and modern a senior police official said that rajasthan ats is new setup and every new setup takes time in functioning up to the expectations issues like infrastructure recruitment and proposals are underway calling it a gestation period he said that many proposals on the directives of state government have been formulated and sent to home ministry for approval if implemented the proposal would make ats equipped with the latest technologies which are not available even to most other sophisticated investigating agencies of the country said an officialanother official said that the proposals for ats of around rs 25 crore has been submitted which included training by national security guard nsg highautomatic weapons bullet proof jackets and headgear computer software programs to help in investigations and vehicles with latest electronic gadgets