Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
Police personnel deployed on Bandobast duty during elections yet to get special allowance, thanks to botch-up work done by few babus
By Dheeraj Fartode
One month after smooth conduct of Lok Sabha election in Nagpur city, police personnel, who had worked hard for to ensure a free, fair and troublefree election, are yet to get their election allowance, thanks to mess created by few babus.
This is not for the first time that lower rung police personnel are treated with such disdain and disrespect by bureaucracy and their own superior officers. While other staffers drawn from various departments and education sector, got their allowance, police staffers who were on bandobast duty, have been left high and dry.
Sources informed that election bandobast plan, which was made by the city police also had flaws and there was mismatch between number of personnel deployed, reserved and actual availability on papers. This had naturally angered the constabulary who are cursing their own superiors for shoddy deal meted out to them vis-a-vis others.
Remaining amount of allowance to be paid to police personnel deployed as per approved plan has been credited to Police Commissionerate for disbursement. District Administration is ready to give remaining amount, if the deployment plan was faulty and more personnel were deployed than planned number, he said.
According to reliable sources, staff of traffic police department, which was deployed for the election duty, reserved police personnel and police personnel of control room are yet to get the election allowance.
However, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP-Special Branch) R L Pokale claimed that allowances as per the deployment plan have been given including reserved police personnel and those working with control room. Only 305 personnel of traffic department are yet to get the allowance as the traffic branch had sent faulty list of police personnel. “We have directed the traffic branch to send proper list of deployment. Allowances will be disbursed when the list is received,” said DCP Pokale.
Joint Commissioner of Police Sanjay Saxena also confirmed the information and said that the allowances will be disbursed within one or two days.
Ramesh Mehta, Secretary of Maharashtra Sewanivrutta Police Adhikari Kalyankari Association condemned the injustice towards police personnel and flayed this approach of depriving police staffers from getting their legitimate dues.
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