Give home guards right to be treated at par with police personnel: Cong leader to Punjab CM

Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa has asked the Punjab chief minister to take care of interests of home guard volunteers by amending the Punjab Home Guards Act, 1947 and giving them the right to be treated at par with Punjab Police personnel.

In a letter to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Bajwa said the home guard volunteers are discharging duties of law and order since 1984 but they are made to face numerous hardships, starting from meagre salary and harassment in claiming even small entitlements.

"??I am requesting your good self to amend the provisions of Punjab Home Guards Act 1947 and provide all the volunteers of Punjab Home Guard a statutory right to be treated at par with the Punjab Police personnel of equivalent rank for the purposes of salary and all other benefits," he said.?