{"id":475402,"date":"2025-03-14T01:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=475402"},"modified":"2025-03-14T01:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:43:04","slug":"supongmeren-highlights-plight-of-vgs-in-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/supongmeren-highlights-plight-of-vgs-in-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Supongmeren highlights plight of VGs in Lok Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>State\u2019s lone Lok Sabha member of parliament S Supongmeren Jamir on Wednesday highlighted the plight of the Nagaland\u2019s village guards and sought the intervention of the union home minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Speaking during the ongoing Parliament Session, Supongmeren said the VGs, despite playing a pivotal role in guarding 120 villages along India-Myanmar border, covering six districts&#8211; Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire, Meluri, Noklak and Longleng since its inception in 1957, had been neglected by both the state government and the ministry of home affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also cited the monthly salary of Rs. 3,000, annual clothing allowances of Rs. 100 and monthly ration allowance of Rs. 60 being allotted to the VGs at present to provide a sense of the level of neglect under which they were operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He urged MHA to revamp and strengthen the VGs and deploy them along the border, instead of promoting border fencing and free movement restriction policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State\u2019s lone Lok Sabha member of parliament S Supongmeren Jamir on Wednesday highlighted the plight of the Nagaland\u2019s village guards and sought the intervention of the union home minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}