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 establishment though quick to promulgate orders about framing time bound programme for deciding on transfers within the force, however the same police bosses of Maharashtra Police seem to have forgotten about the power vested with them. To date the meeting of Police Establishment Board No. 2 that has Director General of Police (DGP) Satish Mathur as its Chairman was not been held and hence question mark hangs on general transfers of officers including that of Sub-Inspector, Assistant Police Inspector and Police Inspector.
DGP Satish Mathur
It was DGP Mathur who issued a circular on January 20, 2017, about General Transfers (GT) for Police Establishment No. 2. Unit Commanders were directed to gather transfer requests in February and send to DGP by April 3, 2017. DGP office reserved entire April for inspection of request letters and was to conduct meetings of PEB 2 between April 1 to 7 and transfer orders were to be issued thereafter.
However, DGP Mathur has failed to stick to schedule laid down by himself. So if top police boss himself is showing scant respect to his own order what can people expect from others in Police Department, said a retired police officer. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Establishment Rajkumar Vhatkar accepted that meeting of Police Establishment No. 2 was not held and when pressed for reason he stated, members were busy and hence could not meet. Vhatkar further said no date is fixed for holding the meeting. DGP Mathur failed to respond to repeated phone calls.
A senior official commented that issuing order and not conducting meeting sends a bad message in police department which prides itself as disciplined force. Such type of time bound programme was introduced for first time in the force. However the top cop of Maharashtra Police failed to take initiative to ensure implementation of the programme in the larger interest of the force is surprising.
Police Establishment Board came into being following rap by the Apex Court. The time bound transfers with schedule of April-May was fixed to ensure police officers get enough time to settle down in transferred place. The two months are most important also from point of view of academic interest of wards of police officers as during this time schools are processing new admission. The summer time is also when the academic session ends and provides enough space for families to decide on schools or colleges to take admission.
But with DGP office itself failing to stick to deadline the middle rank officers of Maharashtra Cadre would once again be waiting endlessly for transfers. So in nutshell the effect of Supreme Court order is being negated.
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