Home Guard Welfare Fund Should Not Be Diverted For Any Other Purpose: Hc | Jaipur News

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court through an interim order has directed the state government and the home guard department to use the Home Guard Welfare Fund only for the welfare of home guards and not spend a single penny from it for any other activities.
The single bench of Justice Mahendra Goyal issued the order on a petition by the Home Guard Coordination Committee, Jaipur.

Abhinav Sharma, counsel for the petitioner, told the court that a fund of more than Rs 100 crore has been illegally maintained by the home guard department whose contribution is collected annually from 26,000 home guards of the state. The petition said despite being bound to transfer this fund to the Provident Fund, no action is being taken by the government.
The provident fund department also replied that correspondence is being done with the state government for over a decade for compliance of the provident fund Act and there is a provision of penalty in the law for not depositing the amount in PPF.
The court has been told that senior officials of the home guard department have also become members of the welfare fund by paying a nominal amount and the deposited amount is used for purchase of furniture in the department, construction of sheds, Republic Day programmes, etc.