Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Monday cleared enrolment of over 10,000 new home guards. The personnel will be recruited by March next year .

“Beginning soon, the process of enrolment of more than 10,000 personnel in Delhi Home Guards will be set rolling and by March, 2024, these freshly recruited personnel will be on the rolls, through an open, fair and transparent selection process, which will have extra credits for Civil Defence Volunteers (CDVs). Once enrolled, these Home Guard Volunteers will be getting about Rs 25,000 every month,” an official statement from the LG Office said.

Saxena, who chaired a meeting to review the enrolment of 10,285 new home guard volunteers, directed officials to squeeze timelines of the enrolment process from June, 2024 to March, 2024, ensure transparency in selection, provide 10 bonus points to ex-CDVs and complete the entire enrolment process at a fast pace by putting into place more teams and locations to complete the physical test process, the statement said.

The Delhi lieutenant governor also directed that the age limit for enrolment into Home Guards be brought down to 45 years from the existing 60 years, in line with the maximum age limit in other states and to ensure that the personnel enrolled served the purpose of acting as auxiliary to the regular police force.