Lucknow, Oct 15(UNI) As part of the austerity drive launched by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, as many as 25,000 home guards have lost their jobs.
The order of their removal was taken citing budget constraints. With this act, home guards engaged in law and order duties would be cut by 32 per cent.
Besides, more than 99,000 home guards also stand to lose regular employment, as the state government has cut the number of their duty days from 25 to 15 days.
Earlier, around 40,000 home guards had lost their jobs as the police department refused to take their services.
The Supreme Court had earlier been moved demanding equality in daily allowances of UP Home Guards and UP police constable.
As per the UP government orders dated October 11, the decision to end the duty of 25,000 Home Guards was taken in a meeting headed by the Chief Secretary on August 28. The Home Department had deployed the 25,000 Home Guards around a year back to fill up the vacancies in the police department.

The order was issued by Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Headquarters B P Jogdand giving reference of the August 28 meeting.
“There is a certain budget for Home Guards and when their daily allowance is increased it will definitely have an effect on their duty days. It might have some effect as Diwali season is around the corner, however, I am sure the state government has taken a decision after thinking over the financial constraints. If Home Guards are given allowances at par with constables then they should also be trained like them,” former DGP of UP, AK Jain said here on Tuesday.
The Home Guards would earlier get a daily allowance of around Rs 500, which was raised to Rs 672 following the Supreme Court’s orders. This is said to have added to UP Police’s budgetary constraints.
In the absence of any fixed monthly salary, they are paid on the basis of number of days of duty. Till now, the forces were expected to work 25 days in a month which has now been reduced to 15 days.
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