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Ranchi: The Jharkhand Home Guards Welfare Association (JHWA) on Monday postponed its jail bharo agitation after the state government assured to issue an order for deployment of home guards on regular security duty in all government departments by Tuesday.
Currently, the home guards are paid at the rate of 500 per day for the days they are on duty and they are utilized for only about six months in a year.
Protesting the paltry honorarium above their non-utilization for six months and not providing any retirement benefits, around 15,000 members of JHWA from different parts of the state have been protesting since March 8 in front of the Sai Mandir in Jagannathpur area here. Their demands included an increase in their daily honorarium to Rs 744, regular duty and payment of retirement benefits. They had announced a jail bharo demonstration on Monday. The protesters said they would call off all forms of agitation only after the government issues the order.