The Telangana government on Wednesday decided to include the Rs.300-a day-honorarium for home guards in the non-plan budget with a view to ensure prompt payment every month and release their arrears for three months before Dusshera.
Making the announcement at a press conference here, Home Minister Nayini Narasimha Reddy and Finance Minister Eatala Rajender said the wages of home guards accumulated every month as they were not budgeted in the past. The files pertaining to their honorarium were sent to the Finance Department every two months resulted in delay in releasing the amount. To ensure their payments on the lines of other government staff, the amount of Rs. 300 would be deposited in home guards’ accounts on the first of every month.
They said there were 19,000 home guards in the service of police in the State. The decision taken on Wednesday was part of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s poll promise.
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