JAMMU: All J and K Home Guard Welfare Association demanded permanent job and other facilities like other states of the country.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, President of the Association, Kamla Sharma said that the Home Guards are struggling for their demands including permanent appointment and other facilities for the past over 10 years. “We were only served with false promises of permanent adjustment orders, but till date nothing has been done”, she added. Sharma said that Home Guards are getting meager salary and due to rise in the prices of the essential commodities, they are suffering a lot. She appealed to the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to direct the concerned authorities to get the Court decision implemented immediately so that the justice is showered upon the Home Guard personnel at the earliest. She said Home Guards personnel in Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh get Rs 17,500 to Rs 22,600 a month. “Following a Supreme Court order on 10th March, the perks of Home Guards in Punjab were brought on a par with constables of the Punjab Police. Even the J and K High Court in 2010 had asked the State Government to absorb the remaining Home Guards as policemen as it had done in case of two battalions raised in the early 1990s,” she said. “We had already submitted our genuine demands before the Home Minister Rajnath Singh and others which are all in vain,” she said. Darshana Devi, Santosh Kumari, Satwinder Kour, Kailash Devi, Usha, Varinder Singh, Rakesh Singh,
Gopal Dass, Sobha Singh, Krishan Lal, Pawan Kumar and Sanjay Kumar were
also present in the press conference.