2023 · Polity & GovernancePrevious Year Question
Q51.
With reference to Home Guards, consider the following statements : 1. Home Guards are raised under the Home Guards act and Rules of the Central Government. 2. The role of the Home Guards is to serve as an auxiliary force to the police in maintenance of internal security. 3. To prevent infiltration on the international border /coastal areas, the Border Wing Home Guards Battalions have been raised in some States. How Many of the above statements are correct?
A. Only one
B. Only two
C. All three
D. None
Answer

B

Explanation

1 is not correct: Home Guards’ is a voluntary first raised in India in December 1946, to assist police in controlling civil disturbance and communal Subsequently, the concept of the voluntary force was adopted by several States. In the of Chinese aggression in 1962, the Centre advised States and Union Territories to merge their existing organisation into one uniform voluntary force as Home Guards. Thus the Central Government not directly raise Home Guards. They are raised by state governments under state acts. 2 is correct: The role of Home Guards is to as an auxiliary Force to the Police in maintenance internal security situations, help the community in kind of emergency such as an air-raid, fire, cyclone, epidemic etc., help in maintenance of services, promote communal harmony and the administration in protecting weaker sections, in socio-economic and welfare activities and Civil Defence duties. 3 is correct: Fifteen Border Wing Home (BWHG) Battalions (Bns.) have been raised in border States viz. Punjab (6 Bns.), Rajasthan ( 4 Gujarat (2 Bns.) and one each Battalion for Tripura and West Bengal to serve as an to Border Security Force for preventing on the international border/coastal areas, of VA/VPs and lines of communication in area at the time of external aggression. only two statements are correct.