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The 63rd Home Guard Raising Day was observed crossed Prakasam, Nellore, Kadapa and Tirupati districts connected Saturday (December 6). Various events commemorating the services and value of Home Guards were organised connected the occassion.
The honorarium for Home Guards was lone ₹2 per time erstwhile the strategy was established successful 1963; currently, it is ₹710 per day, said Prakasam Superintendent of Police (SP) V. Harshavardhan Raju connected the occasion.
Speaking astir the payment schemes for Home Guards, helium said that it was successful Andhra Pradesh that a cooperative nine for Home Guards was established for the archetypal time. Based connected eligibility, it tin connection a indebtedness up to ₹1 lakh. Every month, ₹50 is collected from each Home Guard, and ₹20 is deposited successful the State money and ₹30 successful the territory location defender payment fund. Home Guards are besides eligible for an assistance of ₹5,000.
There are 696 Home Guards, including 83 women, connected work successful Praksam district, and they are an integral portion of the constabulary department, engaging successful maintaining instrumentality and order, security, transgression control, postulation control, dial-112, women constabulary stations and catastrophe management, helium said.
Meanwhile, Nellore SP Ajitha Vejendla handed implicit a Home Guard assignment bid to the woman of T. Suresh, a Home Guard who passed distant owing to illness. Later, she presented certificates of appreciation to 26 Home Guards for work excellence.
Kadapa SP Shelke Nachiket Vishwanath said 599 Home Guards are connected wide work successful the territory and that their services are connected a par with that of civilian and AR constabulary personnel.
Tirupati SP V. Harshavardhan Raju presented awards to Home Guards for work excellence. “If Home Guards brushwood immoderate problems portion connected duty, they should instantly pass their superiors, and the government, arsenic good arsenic the territory police, volition ever beryllium determination to resoluteness their issues,” helium said.
