ET Plus Report
JAMMU, Mar 9: Just a few days after the draft of the police bills was placed by the government in public domain, which of other things includes minimum two-year tenure at every posting to all police officials down to the level of SHO, the police department has in last couple of days has gone into transfer spree.
A day after transfers were effected in Jammu district, SP Rajouri Mubassir Latiffi has affected posting of 16 officials. Couple with other transfers, in a month about 100 transfers have been made. No reason has been given for the transfers. The standard answer of the government, this time police, is it's in the interest of the administration.
"The transfers have become an industry. In no other department you will see so much transfers and that too frequently as in police. Transfers have become an industry to mint money. The officers are now hurry to mint as much money as possible before the new Act comes into place," said a senior bureaucrat wishing not to be named. The new draft specifies that even if the transfer has to be done before the fixed tenure of two-year, the officer making orders for transfer has to given in writing the reason for it. The reasons have to be logical and arbitrary and this is what the officers think will hurt them most.
As unreasonable reason could have been taken to the court and this could have invited trouble for the officer. The government was forced to make the draft, which eventually will put an end to this practice. The transfers are being for host of factors including, political interference, whims of higher officials, influence of business person.
But the one common thread in all of these factors is : no transfers can take place without exchanging money. "Officers know, their days of effecting transfers in making money are numbered so they are trying to do it fast. But they will also try to remove the clause of SHOs, which is effective way to make money," said the official. |
