Home guards urge CM to release duty allowance
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, June 08 2021: Manipur Home Guard Employees Welfare Association (MHGEWA) submitted a memorandum to CM expressing discontentment over non-payment of duty allowances for the personnel for the month of April and May, 2021.In a release, MHGEWA president Yanglem Mangi Singh stated that the Manipur State Home Guard personnel have been discharging their duties sincerely, and dedicated their whole life as Home Guards with meagre amount as honorarium for the last many years.

Even amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Home Guard personnel are discharging their bounden duties as frontline workers in-spite of the high risk of getting infected.

Since the very beginning, the release stated, the Home Guard personnel have been neglected and not paid their entitled duty allowances regularly.

Presently, they have not been paid their entitled pay and allowances since April, 2021 .

However, their counterparts working in the Police Department have no issues on monthly salaries, it added.

It continued that during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Home Guard personnel are facing great financial hardships and their families are living in abject poverty.

However, the state's Home Department has never considered their genuine problems especially payment of duty allowances.

MHGEWA urged the chief minister to instruct the Home Department officials for taking up appropriate measures to release duty allowances for the month of April and May without further delay.

The Association also prevailed upon the CM to instruct officials concerned to ensure release of the entitled allowances within the first week of every month as done in the case of State Police personnel.

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