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CJ directs state to pay home guards allowance equivalent to police personnel 12/15/2015 11:12:09 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 15: In a bunch of petitions filed by home guards, seeking a direction to respondents not to dismiss them and regularise their services or absorb them permanently in the department instead of re-engaging them from time to time, J&K high court Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar today directed state to pay them duty allowance at the rates to which the state police personnel are entitled. He observed that the petitioners had joined the service of J&K government and were discharging their duties for the last more than eight years to the utmost satisfaction of their seniors and there was nothing against them. "They also possess the due eligibility and have also undergone the requisite training. They have worked in the department for maintenance of law and order as well as in anti-militancy operations during the period of militancy and have faced all odds bravely and successfully," the CJ said. The petitioners are being paid a meagre amount of Rs 22 per day and in one month they have to work only for 22 days. And they are called for duty/training for five months only in an year. Even a Class IV employee who renders 240 days service in the department cannot be thrown out as a right has been created in his favour and since the petitioners have rendered more than eight years of service in the department, their services cannot be terminated and they are entitled to be regularized/absorbed and disposed of the petition with the direction to the state to pay the petitioners the duty allowance at the rates, total of 30 days a month comes to minimum of the pay ,to which the police personnel of state are entitled. Necessary orders in this regard be passed within a period of two months, he ordered. --(JNF)   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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