Yogi Adityanath Government Stays Termination of 25,000 Home Guards

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided not to terminate the services of 25,000 Home Guards in the State. A government order issued on Thursday states that the Home Guards will remain on duty until further orders.

The Adityanath government had already taken a u-turn on the issue last week when the state Home Guard Minister Chetan Chauhan said that they would not lose their jobs. The State government had on October 12 said that the Home Guards would be off-duty due to financial constraints. In the order issued on Thursday, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Avanish Awasthi said that the salaries of the Home Guards would be paid from the home department budget.

He said that their deployment was needed in view of the ongoing festive season. Awasthi’s letter addressed to Principal Secretary Home Guard cites the July 30 Supreme Court order and the subsequent high-level meetings of the state Home Department of September 26 and 27 to deal with the fallout. “In view of the coming festival season, it has been decided that the present arrangement of Home Guards would continue on the basis of the Home Department budget,” (IANS)

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