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Drumbeat: Ad Buzzaar
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Saturday, July 18, 1998
Home Guards march to press for demands
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
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. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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