The following are the Rules for holding chaukidari parades at thanas in districts where the President system is not in force, or where the President does not hold fortnightly parades :-(i)The chaukidars within the jurisdiction of each station shall be separated into two classes, viz, (a) those belonging to village within a radius of 10 miles, and (b) those belonging to villages outside such a radius. The former shall attend once a week; the latter shall attend once a fortnight.(ii)These two classes shall be further sub-divided into groups of 20 or any less number of chaukidars. Each chaukidar shall have his groups number and his individual number in that group. The odd and even numbers of each group shall attend on separate days in each week's (or in each alternate week's in the case of groups parding once a fortnight) to be fixed by the Superintendent of Police with reference to local conditions. Such as hat-days, etc. Where there are two or more chaukidars in a village, they should attend alternately, so that there may always be one chaukidar present in the village. On the day fixed for pay parades all the chaukidars shall attend at the thana.The above provisions of the Rule do not affect the liability of chaukidars to attend the thana on other occasions to fulfil any other statutory obligation.At their parades, chaukidars shall be attended by their dafadars, provided that a dafadar shall not be required to attend a thana parade more than once a week.The chaukidari parade at the thana shall be held at such an hours as to admit of chaukidars returning to their village by sunset, if possible and, in order to ensure this, chaukidars shall be compelled to be punctual. It is equally essential that the Police officers shall not detain chaukidars unnecessarily.
