Pay hiked for VDF personnel
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 19 2022:
The State Government has decided to provide an annual increment of Rs 500 to Village Defence Force (VDF) personnel in their monthly honorarium with retrospective effect from January 1, 2022 .
In an office memorandum, Principal Secretary (Home) Rajesh Agrawal said that the State Government has taken up certain resolutions to improve the service condition of VDF personnel.
As per the memorandum, VDF personnel will be allowed to avail 15 days compensatory leave in a year and 10 per cent of the direct recruitment to the rank of Constable and Rifleman may be reserved (horizontal reservation) for eligible VDF personnel.
The Principal Secretary (Home) further said that yearly physical and medical tests shall be conducted by the police with the assistance of the Health Department to assess their performance.
VDF personnel with eight years of engagement will be designated as Corporal while those with 16 years of engagement will be designated as Sergeant after screening by a specific committee, it said.
Saying that a show cause notice will mandatorily be issued to the VDF personnel in case any charges are levelled against them, the memorandum said, "decision on the charges including disengagement can be taken at the level of Superintendent of Police and an appeal against the decision can be made to the DIG concerned within 30 days of the decision" .
Further, VDF personnel with outstanding performance will be felicitated during National and State level functions and at Police Raising Day after proper recommendations by a two tier committee structure, one at district and the other at the State level.
Directing the SPs concerned to enrol VDF personnel to healthcare programmes like Ayushman Bharat and CMHT, it maintained that the VDF personnel may also be covered in social security schemes such as National Pension Scheme, Atal Pension Yojana, PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yajana etc after a due consultation with the Finance Department.
The memorandum continued that recruitment criteria and eligibility for future recruitment of VDF will be issued separately.