Dafadars should ordinarily be nominated from among pensioned soldiers residing in the Union or from among the chaukidars of the Union if fit for promotion. They should, if possible, be literate, but literacy should not be made an absolute condition of appointment. The class of man required of a chaukidar while exercising authority over the chaukidars under him by dint of superior qualifications. The writer-constable class does not make good dafadars.
