Hyderabad: The Hon’ble Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had a meeting with the Home Guards and announced several measures including the hike in their salaries.
• Monthly salary is increased from Rs 12,000 to Rs 20,000
• Every year increment of Rs 1000 per month
• Double Bed Room houses for all the Home Guards
• Health insurance to cover Home Guards’ families
• 30 percent additional allowances to the Home Guards working in the Traffic department like the Police
• Like Police Constables, Home Guards will get four pairs of uniform per year
• Lady home guards will get 6 months maternity leave
• The Male (home guards) will get Fifteen (15) days paternity leave
• Home Guards on Bandobast duty will get diet allowance on par with the police constables.
• Rupees 5000 given for the last rites has increased to Rs 10,000
• Home guards to get treatment in the police, hospitals like the constables
• Reservation hike for the Home Guards in Constables recruitment
TSSP :As on date 10 per cent, in future 25 percent
AR :5 percent increased to 15
Civil :8 percent to 15 percent
PTO (Drivers) :2 percent to 20 percent
Mechanics :2 percent to 10 percent
SPF :5 percent to 25 percent
Fire Services :10 percent to 25 percent
SARCPL : 5 percent to 25 percent
Police Communications :2 percent to 10 percent
The Director General of Police (DGP) thanks the Chief Minister, The DGP Mahender Reddy thanked the Hon’ble Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao for taking several welfare measures including the salary hike of the Home Guards. The DGP said the Telangana Chief Minister understood the problems of the Home Guards, who are working with meager salaries and responded in a humanitarian way and he took historic decisions. The DGP said that the Telangana government has always taken measures for strengthening the police network and in the process to solve the problems faced by the Home Guards, With the decisions taken by the Chief Minister, the home guards are happy and inspired and they would work with double their vigor.