The controversy between the minister and the Department officials over engaging home guards on duty finally ended when on chief minister’s intervention, a decision has been taken that the exercise will be made through a special software.
It will now end the old age practice of deploying home guards personnel manually which mostly facilitate the officials to mint money in the name of giving maximum as well as lucrative assignments to the jawans. Interestingly minister of home guards, Brahma Shankar Dwivedi is reportedly opposing computerized duties of the jawans and his fight with the than Director General of Home Guards, Atul came to the force when he got the latter shunted out after dispatching a letter to the government just few months back.
Reports said that finding the differences between the Home Guards officials and the concerned minister of the Department, Brahma Bakash Singh, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav reportedly summoned all the concerned persons and held a high level meeting of the Department here on Friday afternoon. Akhilesh Yadav reportedly viewed the old age practice of deploying home guards on duty along with the latest software of giving them duties through compterised data. A presentation in this regard was made by ADG (Home Guards) PK Tewari in presence of secretary to chief minister Anita Singh and DG (Home Guards) Ambrish Chandra Sharma.
Sources said that after going through the presentation, Akhilesh Yadav hailed the new practice especially as it will put a break on these corrupt officials who took money from the jawans to given them duties. It may be mentioned here that Home Guards personnel were paid wages as per the duties taken from them. Sources further said that Akhilesh Yadav finally gave green signal to the new practice putting an end to dispute between the minister and the senior officials of Home Guard Department.