Parashuram(Feni) Correspondewnt :
Members of the village police in Parashuram Upazilla of Feni district are leading an inhuman life due to low pay and absence of any financial benefits.
Whatever they receive for a month’s salary is not enough to run even a week, yet they are always on law enforcement duty for 24 hours a day.
Sources said, each union parishad has 10 members of the village police, where one is assigned as a Dafadar (Inspector ) and the others as Mohaalladar (constables) who are paid tk 3,250 and 3,250 a month respectively.
Their salaries are half paid by the government and half by the respective union parishad authorities.
Apart from festival bonuses, they do not receive any other fiscal benefits or facilities yet they are assigned to nighttime duties, village courts, social programmes and accident spots .
Some members of the village police told this correspondent that apart from nighttime duties, they are also engaged in assisting UP chairmen, provide crime related information, birth-death certificate registration, tax collection and other duties, for which their salary is not enough to run their family expenses.
