The Home Guards under the banner of the Rajya Gruharakhi Mahasangha have threatened to launch a stir from February 13 and boycott their election duty and refrain from casting of their along with their family members if the Government continues to ignore their seven-point charter of demands.
In a State-level meeting of the association on Thursday, the members lamented that though the home guards are working like Government employees, they are deprived of facilities like social security, health insurance, pension, salary hike as per Supreme Court’s order and leave. The home guards too do not have a regular service, neither any service conditions.
The office bearers of the district units of association slammed the Government for being continuously apathetic towards them despite the fact that the association has been pressing for the demands since long. They alleged that 17, 675 home guards are facing a step motherly attitude by the State Government.