Uttarakhand: The way of posting is open for PRD jawans in many departments, the age limit of recruitment has also been increased.

For the first time after the formation of the state, the amendment in the PRD Act cleared the way for deployment of jawans in many departments. For this, Minister Rekha Arya has instructed the officials to prepare rules and issue mandates this month itself. The age limit for recruitment has also been increased from maximum 30 years to 42 years and retirement age from 50 to 60 years.

In a meeting with the departmental officers and PRD party officials in the Vidhansabha Auditorium, the departmental minister said that till now the PRD jawans used to work with the police for peacekeeping and Chardham Yatra, but now on the basis of educational qualification, they will be given the post of sports coach, clerk. According to the need, deployment will be available in various departments including gardener, watchman, computer operator, driver.

Now two lakhs on death in accident while on duty

Women will get maternity leave and all jawans will get gazetted leave. In case of death due to accident while on duty, the amount of Rs. 1 lakh has been increased to Rs. 2 lakh, in case of death due to illness, the amount of Rs. 75 thousand has been increased to Rs. 1.5 lakh and in case of death in normal duty, the amount of Rs. 50 thousand has been increased to Rs. Which will come into force after the rules are made.
Secretary Sports and Youth Welfare Abhinav Kumar, Director Sports and Youth Welfare Jitendra Sonkar, Joint Director Youth Welfare Ajay Agarwal, Deputy Director Shakti Singh, Deputy Directors Sarvendra Jairaj, Nirmal Kumar, Deepti Joshi, President of Provincial Guard Pramod Mandrawal etc. were present in the meeting. .

Deceased dependents got jobs

Minister Rekha Arya said that the government has already arranged jobs for the dependents of the deceased in PRD. After its GO, the eligible people are being given jobs in the team.