The Indian Home Guard is an Indian paramilitary force which is tasked as an auxiliary to the Indian Police.
The Home Guards Organization was reorganised in India

India

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 in 1962 after the Sino-Indian War with the People's Republic of China

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, though it existed in smaller units individually in some places.
The Home Guard was originally raised in 1946 in accordance with the Home Guards Acts and Rules of States/Union Territories, under the Ministry of Home Affairs

Ministry of Home Affairs

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.

For example, the Home Guards Organization in Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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 was utilized by the Civil Defence which came into existence in 1952 under the name of Home Defence (New Civil Defence Act is 27 0f 1968).