Home Guards health insurance scheme launched in Visakhapatnam, a first in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Home Minister V. Anitha connected Friday (May 22, 2026) launched the ‘Home Guards Health Insurance Scheme’ for Home Guards moving wrong the limits of the Visakhapatnam City Police, the archetypal specified strategy successful the State. Under it, 975 Home Guards volition get wellness security cover. The argumentation provides basal screen of ₹3 lakh and a ₹33 lakh top-up. About 3,144 household members are expected to benefit.

Ms. Anitha said the strategy reflected the government’s committedness to extending payment measures to constabulary unit astatine each level, from elder officials to lower-rank unit and Home Guards.

She said Home Guards worked circular the timepiece with constabulary unit and helped support instrumentality and order. Unlike constabulary constables, they were not eligible for compassionate appointments, and galore had constricted entree to healthcare. Under the scheme, Home Guards and their families tin get attraction astatine each large firm hospitals, she said. Welfare measures would boost their morale, and the authorities would proceed to enactment them truthful they could bash their duties with greater confidence, she added.

She referred to a caller measurement by the Tirupati police, wherever children of constables and Home Guards who did good successful Class X examinations were felicitated. The authorities would besides assistance enactment the acquisition of Home Guards’ children, she said.

Visakhapatnam Police Commissioner Shankhabratha Bagchi said Home Guards were among the hardest-working unit successful the constabulary system. He said that adjacent though they worked each day, they earned lone astir ₹21,000 a month, which made it hard to conscionable large aesculapian bills.

“In specified circumstances, galore Home Guards are incapable to instrumentality attraction of their ain wellness and that of their household members. Keeping this successful mind, the section decided to present the security scheme,” helium said.

The Commissioner said the first-year premium of ₹88 lakh was paid from the Police Welfare Fund. From adjacent year, Home Guards would lend astir ₹10,000 a twelvemonth towards the premium.

He said a ‘Police and Home Guards Health Insurance Assistance Centre’ and a helpline had besides been acceptable up to assistance beneficiaries.

Such payment measures would boost the morale of Home Guards and promote different districts and States to instrumentality up akin schemes, helium said.

Deputy Commissioners of Police Ch. Manikanta and Latha Madhuri, and different unit were contiguous .The Home Minister besides flagged disconnected 2 patrol vehicles fixed by Divis Laboratories nether its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.