Demanding reinstatement as bus marshals, civil defence volunteers hold protest in Delhi

New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) Scores of civil defence volunteers (CDVs) gathered at the Chandgiram Akhara in north Delhi, demanding their reinstatement as bus marshals.

The services of around 10,000 civil defence volunteers deployed in public buses as marshals were terminated last year over objections raised by the finance and revenue departments that they could only be engaged for duties related to natural disasters and their deployment as bus marshals was wrong.

"The BJP promised that they would reinstate us within 60 days of coming to power. But it has been nearly five months, but nothing has been done for us," Aditya Rai, a protesting bus marshal, said.

There was a heavy deployment of police and paramilitary personnel at the protest site. PTI SLB APL APL SKY SKY