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NEW DELHI, July 17: More than 1,000 Home Guards took to the streets this afternoon to protest against what they described ``the government's step-motherly treatment and corruption by their seniors''. They also demanded that they be given permanent employment, free bus travel and parity with constables and head constables in the Delhi Police.
NEW DELHI, July 17: More than 1,000 Home Guards took to the streets this afternoon to protest against what they described ``the government's step-motherly treatment and corruption by their seniors''. They also demanded that they be given permanent employment, free bus travel and parity with constables and head constables in the Delhi Police.
``Each of us receives only Rs 63 a day when we are on duty. If we fall ill, we don't get the money,'' said Dinesh who has been working as a Home Guard for the past 15 years.
The Home Guards, who went to Union Home Minister L.K. Advani's house with a memorandum today, said that the recent dismissal of at least 500 home guards has put a question mark on their future.
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