With Covid cases and deaths touching new highs in Chhattisgarh every day, Raipur has become the epicentre of the virus. On Tuesday, the state was the third worst hit in India.
The ambush of a joint CRPF and state police team in Chhattisgarh shows the training and tactics have to be better than the ragtag Maoists. Jammu and Kashmir is a good example.
Every major police casualty ignites the demand for security forces to be given a ‘free hand’. But no state govt has restrained its forces in the last 15 years.
The 1971 war was the finest moment for India’s defence and security establishment — intelligence and accountability saved lives. Now errant officers get promotions.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan dismissed states’ shortage claims as baseless, but govt officials and some private hospitals across the country say the crisis is real.
Maoists have, however, not raised any formal demands for the release of commando Rakeshwar Singh Manhas even as police are verifying the authenticity of their purported statement.
In episode 717 of 'Cut The Clutter', Shekhar Gupta talks about how Maoist\naxal groups gained power since independence and the recent ambush of security personnel in Chhattisgarh.
The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.
Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
the politician is the method by which the police make money. the judicial system is also a major part of this. Best come up with a solution to cleanse the politician and the judiciary
Views expressed deserve applaud and need immediate attention of executives. Reforms in justice delivery system, policing and SOP to fix Interdepartmental responsibilities, power, authorities must urgently addressed if Modi wishes to fulfil aspirations of poor indians. These three lacunae if fixed by Modi, rule of law can be established in letter & spirit. And thereafter, nexus of political leaders, police, bureaucracy & underworld will be thing of past as reporting of crime will start at its origin. If any bureaucrat override area of others authority to pocket dividends arising out of his influenced decision, such acts will be reported instantly due to SOP/other authority/public and he won’t be able to hide behind police & justice delivery system. Independent police/bureaucracy/justice delivery system will raise faith in the system.
For past many years, I’m advocating these reforms but whether Modi has capabilities to fight some 50000 powerful peoples (MP, MLA, Bureaucracy, senior police officers) irrespective of partylines to snatch powers from them and offer real freedom to indian masses is the moot question. Modi must prioritize his doable before enforcing these reforms, if he succeeds, he’ll be eulogized as Kalki of Kalyug. Commencement of Ramrajya won’t be a mirage if so happens.
The best way to de-politicise the Police is to place them under the judiciary.
Police recruitment should also be under the respective High Courts.
All service matters should end with the DG police and Home Secretary working in a committee under a High Court judge.
India is colonial legacy where wealth and power are concentrated in Colonial Commissars such as Judges, Bureaucrats, Police, their Political bosses and their cronies / purchasers – hirers at the expense of India’s starving millions. There is no way that those who have inherited the East India Company legacy, least of all the Politicians can be persuaded to give it up.
I think first this Govr should do is change the police uniform of our country’ then go on with the police reform but I doubt that this will ever happen under Modi and Amit shah
Yet another regional newspaper with regional tone. What is sudarshan chakra? Oh. that is well known in north India!! Yeah Right. These headline makers….sheesh.
It’s quite unfortunate that even a healthy idea ,if floated,gets killed in the foetus itself,as a girl child. It’s good to debate on the point and not casting aspersions on Rank,or organization. Limitations are there,will be there,yet one has to maneuver, to come to a logical conclusion, keeping one’s professional and personal,ego and bias ,aside.
Too disgusted by the author’s cloying flattery of Modi . We need to forcibly remove all colonial mindset from the central services, and disband and decimate organisations like the IAS / IPS etc, maybe even the officer corps of the armed services, must be purged, if the cancer has gotten too deep. Then rebuilt them to serve a constitutional republic, for the people of this country, not an imperial power, which the central govt. feigns to do, as it does today. The rot has now set into the higher judiciary as well… The Army is now an institution of religious bigotry with appointment of a Hindu Fanatic as CDS. I fear the India , imperfect as it was, I grew up in may soon cease to exist.
The author seems to be naive in his expectations of police reforms under the current PM.
No political party in interested in this issue, least of all the current dispensation.
Police Reforms is a long pending task that has been ignored by all the Central governments since 1970s. It was expected that Rajnath Singh would take this up but he did precious little in the first term of Modi government. Once Amit Shah took over as Home Minister, again there were hopes but he got too busy elsewhere (Art 370, CAA, NRC, state elections etc.). As a result, police reform are pending in the second term as well and we have no clue when they will be taken up. There is no dearth of ideas and reports of various experts and commissions on the required reforms.
It is Modi alone who can take the political decision to reform police and implement it firmly. Hopefully, he can do it post 2024, if he is back with full majority again.
Interesting combination of high-horse preaching and sycophancy. For an army officer to wax eloquent on policing is interesting, especially at a time when the army hasn’t exactly covered itself with glory, having lost large amounts of territory in Ladakh despite large sums being lavished on its ranks, thanks to “gross operational stupidity” of the army leadership. To say that “Modi can be India’s main hope” is about as abject a statement as I’ve seen from a uniformed officer.
It is all day dreaming forgetting the dishonesty has taken deep roots in all walks of life. Poor nations can illafford to go this dangerous path. Ut we travelled a long distance away from right path
This definitely is a Wishful Thinking. The situation at present indicates that The Powers of Constitutional Institutions including Police are kept in abyeance and at the Mercy of the Government. Power to the present clan has been secured Hard Way and are not fools to lose power.
A very nice article. Yes only a mass leader like Modi who is worshipped by the majority of the citizens of this country can reform the police, judiciary, bureaucracy etc. As the author says for this to happen Modi must do away with the role of a politician and act like a statesman because no other leader since independence starting with Nehru has commanded the affection of the people like Modi has. Hope Modi raises to the occasion.
Centre govt is busy only to win election in Bengal.none on this earth is born without short comings but Govt & his ministers & officers r afraid of telling truth to the top man it appears.people have lost jobs ,no business is running properly.
After the loss of war 11 ,even salary was not paid but now only central govt officers r getting higher & higher salary & pension .cut down salary ,create new jobs with lesser salary .large persons will be benefitted
This Print or any other media are always critical about Modi or BJP barring few. These people want all ills should be cleared or cleaned by Modi. What were these media houses were doing when Congress ruled this country for over 60 years?
Of course, we legitimately expect this BJP and Modi Government should take revolutionary steps to alter long standing existing rots creeped in the system of governance. But this to happen media houses should be supportive and encourage the government to undertake drastic reforms, instead of criticizing the government and its leadership in every way for vested interests.
A very timely article. But going by the Bengal elections our PM seems to have put his party duties above the State Duties.
I wish Gen . Menon had added a line or two to say How not doing the reforms would harm Mr Modi’s own standing and legacy.
Time for Modi to step up. No, he should step down. BJP is a good party but with the wrong prime minister. Wrong priority minister. Doesn’t know many things in economics and government.
Time for Modi to step up. No, he should step down. BJP is a good party but with the wrong prime minister. Wrong priority minister. Doesn’t know many things in economics and government.
The author is either plain naive or a closet ‘bhakt’. Modi-Shah have the worst record of abuse of the police system, protection to the criminal elements in police uniform , and victimisation of honest officers. Gujarat under Modi Shah and the Anil Deshmukh-Sachin Waze kind of stories are being enacted in different forms in all states across the country. Modi is the last person anyone can expect to set matters right in a system steeped in corruption,inefficiency and abuse of power, which are all integral to his and all politicians’ play to win power and consolidate it .
To depoliticise Indian police courts must come down heavily on the individual policemen who convert the civil disputes on to criminal disputes.
That is where the politicization takes place.
Apply the same principle that does not matter if 10 likely disputes do not get converted to criminal cases but one genuine has to be saved.
The corruption will also come down once the price tax disappears for conversions.
Well, Judicial reforms and investments in increasing capacity of the judiciary must happen before Police reforms are unleashed and depoliticized. Capacity not only means lawyers and judges but it must include new physical infrastructure. Our courts are decrepit and crowded. Tribunals are to spread out from each other. Sessions courts can’t accommodate the headcount that is required for basic functions. Currently our judiciary takes to long to adjudicate cases, even simple ones involving basic violations of fundamental rights. Without appropriate capacity for the judiciary to handle and adjudicate cases in a smooth manner, any police reforms would only open the flood gates of tyranny on to the citizenry.
the politician is the method by which the police make money. the judicial system is also a major part of this. Best come up with a solution to cleanse the politician and the judiciary
Views expressed deserve applaud and need immediate attention of executives. Reforms in justice delivery system, policing and SOP to fix Interdepartmental responsibilities, power, authorities must urgently addressed if Modi wishes to fulfil aspirations of poor indians. These three lacunae if fixed by Modi, rule of law can be established in letter & spirit. And thereafter, nexus of political leaders, police, bureaucracy & underworld will be thing of past as reporting of crime will start at its origin. If any bureaucrat override area of others authority to pocket dividends arising out of his influenced decision, such acts will be reported instantly due to SOP/other authority/public and he won’t be able to hide behind police & justice delivery system. Independent police/bureaucracy/justice delivery system will raise faith in the system.
For past many years, I’m advocating these reforms but whether Modi has capabilities to fight some 50000 powerful peoples (MP, MLA, Bureaucracy, senior police officers) irrespective of partylines to snatch powers from them and offer real freedom to indian masses is the moot question. Modi must prioritize his doable before enforcing these reforms, if he succeeds, he’ll be eulogized as Kalki of Kalyug. Commencement of Ramrajya won’t be a mirage if so happens.
The best way to de-politicise the Police is to place them under the judiciary.
Police recruitment should also be under the respective High Courts.
All service matters should end with the DG police and Home Secretary working in a committee under a High Court judge.
India is colonial legacy where wealth and power are concentrated in Colonial Commissars such as Judges, Bureaucrats, Police, their Political bosses and their cronies / purchasers – hirers at the expense of India’s starving millions. There is no way that those who have inherited the East India Company legacy, least of all the Politicians can be persuaded to give it up.
I think first this Govr should do is change the police uniform of our country’ then go on with the police reform but I doubt that this will ever happen under Modi and Amit shah
Yet another regional newspaper with regional tone. What is sudarshan chakra? Oh. that is well known in north India!! Yeah Right. These headline makers….sheesh.
It’s quite unfortunate that even a healthy idea ,if floated,gets killed in the foetus itself,as a girl child. It’s good to debate on the point and not casting aspersions on Rank,or organization. Limitations are there,will be there,yet one has to maneuver, to come to a logical conclusion, keeping one’s professional and personal,ego and bias ,aside.
Good article. Police should be away from political masters.
height of expectations. impossible. too much to expect. wishful thinking. he will not do it.
Too disgusted by the author’s cloying flattery of Modi . We need to forcibly remove all colonial mindset from the central services, and disband and decimate organisations like the IAS / IPS etc, maybe even the officer corps of the armed services, must be purged, if the cancer has gotten too deep. Then rebuilt them to serve a constitutional republic, for the people of this country, not an imperial power, which the central govt. feigns to do, as it does today. The rot has now set into the higher judiciary as well… The Army is now an institution of religious bigotry with appointment of a Hindu Fanatic as CDS. I fear the India , imperfect as it was, I grew up in may soon cease to exist.
The author seems to be naive in his expectations of police reforms under the current PM.
No political party in interested in this issue, least of all the current dispensation.
Very thought provoking
Police Reforms is a long pending task that has been ignored by all the Central governments since 1970s. It was expected that Rajnath Singh would take this up but he did precious little in the first term of Modi government. Once Amit Shah took over as Home Minister, again there were hopes but he got too busy elsewhere (Art 370, CAA, NRC, state elections etc.). As a result, police reform are pending in the second term as well and we have no clue when they will be taken up. There is no dearth of ideas and reports of various experts and commissions on the required reforms.
It is Modi alone who can take the political decision to reform police and implement it firmly. Hopefully, he can do it post 2024, if he is back with full majority again.
To get some idea of the stakes involved, consider the monthly target assigned to Sachin Vaze.
Sometimes praise the Government also
Interesting combination of high-horse preaching and sycophancy. For an army officer to wax eloquent on policing is interesting, especially at a time when the army hasn’t exactly covered itself with glory, having lost large amounts of territory in Ladakh despite large sums being lavished on its ranks, thanks to “gross operational stupidity” of the army leadership. To say that “Modi can be India’s main hope” is about as abject a statement as I’ve seen from a uniformed officer.
It is all day dreaming forgetting the dishonesty has taken deep roots in all walks of life. Poor nations can illafford to go this dangerous path. Ut we travelled a long distance away from right path
This definitely is a Wishful Thinking. The situation at present indicates that The Powers of Constitutional Institutions including Police are kept in abyeance and at the Mercy of the Government. Power to the present clan has been secured Hard Way and are not fools to lose power.
A very nice article. Yes only a mass leader like Modi who is worshipped by the majority of the citizens of this country can reform the police, judiciary, bureaucracy etc. As the author says for this to happen Modi must do away with the role of a politician and act like a statesman because no other leader since independence starting with Nehru has commanded the affection of the people like Modi has. Hope Modi raises to the occasion.
Centre govt is busy only to win election in Bengal.none on this earth is born without short comings but Govt & his ministers & officers r afraid of telling truth to the top man it appears.people have lost jobs ,no business is running properly.
After the loss of war 11 ,even salary was not paid but now only central govt officers r getting higher & higher salary & pension .cut down salary ,create new jobs with lesser salary .large persons will be benefitted
This Print or any other media are always critical about Modi or BJP barring few. These people want all ills should be cleared or cleaned by Modi. What were these media houses were doing when Congress ruled this country for over 60 years?
Of course, we legitimately expect this BJP and Modi Government should take revolutionary steps to alter long standing existing rots creeped in the system of governance. But this to happen media houses should be supportive and encourage the government to undertake drastic reforms, instead of criticizing the government and its leadership in every way for vested interests.
A very timely article. But going by the Bengal elections our PM seems to have put his party duties above the State Duties.
I wish Gen . Menon had added a line or two to say How not doing the reforms would harm Mr Modi’s own standing and legacy.
Time for Modi to step up. No, he should step down. BJP is a good party but with the wrong prime minister. Wrong priority minister. Doesn’t know many things in economics and government.
Time for Modi to step up. No, he should step down. BJP is a good party but with the wrong prime minister. Wrong priority minister. Doesn’t know many things in economics and government.
Lol the Delhi Police (and other police forces in BJP-run states) are basically arms of the BJP. Don’t get your hopes up.
The author is either plain naive or a closet ‘bhakt’. Modi-Shah have the worst record of abuse of the police system, protection to the criminal elements in police uniform , and victimisation of honest officers. Gujarat under Modi Shah and the Anil Deshmukh-Sachin Waze kind of stories are being enacted in different forms in all states across the country. Modi is the last person anyone can expect to set matters right in a system steeped in corruption,inefficiency and abuse of power, which are all integral to his and all politicians’ play to win power and consolidate it .
Gen. Saab, Politicians can’t sustain with depoliticized police force
To depoliticise Indian police courts must come down heavily on the individual policemen who convert the civil disputes on to criminal disputes.
That is where the politicization takes place.
Apply the same principle that does not matter if 10 likely disputes do not get converted to criminal cases but one genuine has to be saved.
The corruption will also come down once the price tax disappears for conversions.
It is the non-BJP states which oppose any kind of police reforms. Further the dishonest media keeps changing goalposts as per political contingency.
Well, Judicial reforms and investments in increasing capacity of the judiciary must happen before Police reforms are unleashed and depoliticized. Capacity not only means lawyers and judges but it must include new physical infrastructure. Our courts are decrepit and crowded. Tribunals are to spread out from each other. Sessions courts can’t accommodate the headcount that is required for basic functions. Currently our judiciary takes to long to adjudicate cases, even simple ones involving basic violations of fundamental rights. Without appropriate capacity for the judiciary to handle and adjudicate cases in a smooth manner, any police reforms would only open the flood gates of tyranny on to the citizenry.