CM KCR hikes salaries of home guards

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday announced an increase in the pay from Rs 12,000 to Rs 20,000 at a meeting held with the home guards in the Pragathi Bhavan here.

The CM declared that annual increment of Rs 1,000 would be given to them besides provision of double bed room houses for all the home guards and health insurance to their families on par with the regular employees.

Woman home guards would be given six months maternity leave while male home guards would get 15 day-paternity leave, 30 per cent additional allowance to the guards working in traffic department like the police, diet allowances to those who attend bandobast duty and



four pairs of uniform per year were the other benefits the home guards will get from 2018.

KCR said quota for home guards in the constable recruitment was also increased from 10 per cent to 25 per cent in various wings like Civil Police, Armed Reserved, Special Protection Force and Police Communications.

Since there were some legal complications in regularising the services of the home guards, the CM said his government will provide facilities on par with regularised constables and job security also. DGP M Mahender Reddy thanked the Chief Minister for taking several welfare measures, including the salary hike of the home guards.