Geetanjali Gayatri
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 1
Dismissing allegations of his lack of interest in the functioning of the Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau, Haryana Director General of Police Manoj Yadava, in his reply to Home Minister Anil Vij, has stated that the Police Headquarters (HQ) maintained an "extremely proactive and responsive" approach from its very formation.
No reply received, says Home Minister
Though sources in the police say DGP Manoj Yadava submitted the reply on the Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sought by Home Minister Anil Vij on March 26, the minister claims he has still not received the reply.
Vij had demanded a written explanation from the DGP on allegations made in a demi official letter written by the state NCB chief Shrikant Jadhav. The officer had claimed that the bureau remained only on paper even nine months after its inception due to the "lack of interest by the DGP". The minister, through the ACS (Home), had sought a reply within seven days and, later, sent a reminder as well.
Terming the allegations to be "completely at variance with the facts", Yadava, in his detailed six-page reply, has minced absolutely no words and asserted that the delay in sanctions was the consequence of the officer failing to exhibit "any initiative". Quoting an instance where the 1987-batch officer V Kamaraja was given the task of establishing Traffic Aid Posts on the state's national highways, Yadava's reply said that the former showed "tremendous initiative, pro-active approach and resourcefulness" by getting land acquired, arranging ambulances, cranes and Gypsies and getting the posts constructed in record time. Taking a dig at the officer, the reply states that the task was achieved "not by writing DO letters and submitting complaints against the then DGP, but by personally visiting" the PHQ and the Secretariat to pursue proposals personally.
The reply gives a detailed chronological account complete with the exact dates of the receipt of the proposals from the NCB, their processing time and the sanction received from the preparatory work to the identification of office accommodation, manpower sanction, provision of computers, vehicles, arms and ammunition, among others.
The reply mentions the proposal to reorganise the Bureau by setting up 17 field units against the sanctioned 11 units. Stating that the focus should be on consolidating the working in the 11 units, the reply mentions that the PHQ is hard pressed for manpower and financial resources and opening additional units would strain resources and efforts further. It adds that since the construction of buildings to house these units would also take time, the respective SPs in the districts had been directed to identify spare accommodation.
The reply concludes with the assertion that the Bureau was created in the middle of the financial year 2020-21 and budget was made available by diverting it from other wings of the Haryana Police. Reiterating that no stone was left unturned to set the project rolling in record time, Yadava has underlined the shortage of 25 per cent of the sanctioned strength in the police, diversion of focus and resources on making Dial 112 functional in keeping with the instructions of the Home Minister.
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