<br/>In Uttar Pradesh the state government has decided to start recruitment for special security force with executive power to protect the 10 parks and monuments constructed by BSP government in Lucknow and NOIDA on Dalit icons.<br/><br/>Our Lucknow correspondent reports that undeterred by the non-approval of the Bill and Ordinance by the state governor for raising a special force to protect the monuments the government has announced its controversial decision to set up one battalion of UP Special Area Security Forces recruiting ex-servicemen and a retired Colonel rank officer as its head. It was decided by the State Cabinet on Friday on apprehension of damage of these structures by castiest and anti-Dalit miscreants.<br/><br/>State Cabinet Secretary Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh has told media persons that the process for the appointment of security personnel for this new force would start today and within this month, trained security personnel would be deployed at the all ten monuments. The government would spend an additional amount of Rs nine crore for setting up this force.<br/><br/>Mr. Singh has said that there is a shortage of policemen in the state, for which the state government has already started the recruitment of some two lakh policemen and if under such circumstances they were deployed for other tasks, it could have been detrimental to maintaining law and order. He said that under these circumstances the government has decided to raise a special force for the security of these monuments.