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The Indian Home Guard is an Indian paramilitary police force. It is a voluntary force, tasked as an auxiliary to the
Personnel are recruited from various people to include doctors, lawyers, teachers, employees of public and private sector organisations, college and university students, agricultural and industrial workers and others who give their spare time to their communities. All 18 to 50-year-old citizens of India are eligible for membership and normally serve from three to five years each. Members are paid an allowance when called up for service. All members, after their first three-year term of service, are eligible to be trained by the police in the maintenance of law and order, crime prevention, anti-dacoit measures, border control, disaster relief, fire prevention and firefighting, election and social welfare activities.[2]
The Home Guard is equipped with and trained to use older weapons such as the .303 Lee–Enfield SMLE rifle, Sten and Bren guns which are manufactured indigenously by the Indian Ordnance Factories controlled by the Ordnance Factories Board, Ministry of Defence, Government of India.
Central Civil Defence training centres were established in various states to impart training to both Civil Defence and Home Guards personnel. The training consists of individual as well as team training. After Independence the task of Civil Defence training was revived only after 1962.
[5] The total strength of Home Guards in the country is 573,793 against which the present raised strength is 486,401 Home Guards in 25
The functions to be performed by Home Guards are listed below:
This Home Guard organisation is also active in Bengal, Rajasthan, Tamil-Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
. The policies of State Civil Defence Committee were based on the directives issued by Government of India. Civil Defence to Home Defence At this time the Home Defence was permitted to be brought to limelight by changing the [4] For example, the Home Guards Organisation in
. Ministry of Home Affairs, under the Home Guards Acts and Rules of States/Union Territories in accordance with the [4][3] The Home Guard was originally raised in the erstwhile
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