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Do not Go gentle into that good night... There is an interesting article that appeared in 'whispersinthecorridor.com' written by Shashank. The man seems to have quite an insight into the fallacies of the so called elite- the IPS. He has very rightly pointed out the discrepancies that exist between the IPS and the CPMF heirarchies, their promotions and their methods of work. The pay Commission has recommended lateral shifting between defence forces and the CPMFs. That is all right. But then why the difference in pay? If the army can get a Military Service Pay, why cannot the CPMFs get a Para-military Service Pay? I think readers would agree that to a large extent, in the present scenario, the enemies of the country are not only outside, but lurk within, in training camps, in the form of Naxalites, in IT Companies as techno-geeks, scheming and bringing their plans to fruition. The CPMFs, men of whom are sent on Internal Security Duty are equally responsible for maintaining peace within the borders of our country. So why should be treated as 'civilians' within the purview of the Home Ministry. Who do you think is going to project this aspect? The heads of CPMFs are members of the IPS, engaged in fighting their own battles. Shashank points out that the IPS has a cadre strength of mere 3000 for which there are more than 100 posts of Directors General, more than 300 posts of Additional Directors general, almost 700 posts of Inspector general, and about 1000 posts of deputy Inspectors general. The operational level posts of Superintendents of Police are only about 900. The posts of Superintendents of Police remain vacant because all the officers keep getting promoted in 14/21 years to the level of DIG/IG irrespective of their professional capabilities, or, lack of it. Their promotion prospects also remain unhampered by their poor record of service. As against this, the CPMF have combined cadre strength of more than 7000 officers and they have only about 100 odd posts of DIG, 15 odd posts of IG and no posts of Additional Director General or director general available to them. An interesting aside of this publication by Shashank is that he is replying to an article by Shri Abhinav Kumar, Supdt of Police, Crime and Law & order, Uttarakhand in the Indian Express dated 27th Mar’2008. Here we have an SP expressing the 'woes' of the IPS in an article published in a National Daily. Why then is the IPS gagging the men they command in the CPMFs from expressing their part of the problem? Will the cadre strength remain mute spectators to their own plight, will they remain 'santusht' ? The gag order seems to working. There is not even a single comment to these posts, leave alone any cognizance from any quarter or even a whimper!! "Theirs not to question why. Theirs but to do and Die".
October 30, 2008 3:16 AM
Another issue that the Govt has not yet decided is about the implementation of recommendation of pay commission about increasing the quota of Cadre officers from DIG upwards. The IPS have been very clever, they have got the posts of Addl DIG upgraded to that of Special DG. In fact the some posts of IG have also been upgraded to that of Addl DG. All these upgraded posts will go to the IPS and the Cadre officers will in effect lose on even some posts of IG as these have been upgraded.
ReplyDeleteEven the recommendation of giving 100 percent posts of DIG to cadre has not been implemented. This is the biggest cadre reform of the CPO Cadre as if this is implemented then all the officer of CPO cadres joining directly at the level of Asstt Comdt will become atleast DIsG before retiring.
Even the order of Cabinet regarding upgradation of the posts of Addl DIG has been implemented after a lot of delay and orcherstrated references and backroom lobbying with Govt for review of this decision by the IPS bosses of these forces. Even now the order has been issued with lots of caveats like threat of review of seniority even though the Govt order is clear that the posts have been upgraded with effect from 1-1-2006.
Shashank