"Wages of VDCs and SPOs should be enhanced to Rs 10,000 per month," BJP general secretary (organisation) Ashok Koul said after presiding over by a district working committee meeting of the party's Kishtwar unit.
SPOs are currently getting Rs 5,000 as wages and village defence committees are also paid the same amount for distribution among its members.
Taking a dig on the state government over PoK militants' return and rehabilitation policy, Koul said a serious note was taken on infiltration bids in recent times, "which is now spreading through the Kathmandu (Nepal) route".