New Delhi,
The INLD MP from Hisar, Dushyant Chautala, today raised issues of the paramilitary forces in the Lok Sabha and urged Home Minister Rajnath Singh to invite the association of retired officers and address their grievances.

Raising the issue during Zero Hour, the MP said that it would be wrong to call such forces as paramilitary and so should be named as internal security forces.

Demanding that they should be treated on par with the defence forces, the Hisar MP suggested that the slain personnel of such forces should also be given the “status of martyrs as is the practice in the defence forces”.

He said, “Sacrifices made by the personnel of such forces by no means lower to their counterparts in the defence forces.”

He said that the government had discontinued the old pension system for the personnel of the paramilitary forces who had joined in and after 2004 along with other Central Government employees. “This is not correct. Their job is not on par with other Central Government employees. The old pension system should be restored and they should also be given the benefits of the one-rank, one-pension scheme,” he said.