--23 resign from their job
JEYPORE: As many as 23 Gram
Rakhis from Boipariguda police station area in Koraput district have handed
over their resignation before the local police citing several reasons. The
resignation drive started after the killing of two Gram Rakhis by the Maoists
in the area.
On the other hand, all the 780
village guards working across the district have threatened to resign en masse
if the Government doesn’t act on their three-point charter of demands like
provision of payment Rs 10,000 for cremation and Rs 10 lakh as ex-gratia and
employment to any of the family members in case of death.
In a meeting held at Nisanimunda
in the district on Tuesday, the Gram Rakhis set December 3 as the deadline to
meet their demands, failing which they would tender mass resignation on
December 4. Later, a delegation of the village guards submitted their charter
of demands after meeting South-Western Range DIG S Devadutta Singh and Koraput
SP Awinash Kumar and demanded the Government to take immediate step to fulfill
their demands.
Though the village guards have
mentioned health problem as the reason behind their resignation, but the
reality was something different which they didn’t want to disclose fearing the
ultras, sources said.
The village guards in Malkangiri
and neighbouring Koraput districts have become soft targets for the rebels who
accuse them of tipping off the police about their movement, but the DIG said
the village guards never tip-off them. “We will certainly extend security to
village guards, if they need,” he added.
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