By : Dr. K Shantibala Devi 12/16/2007 12:54:57 AM
Meet the DGP programme was indeed an interesting and enterprising venture. From light-hearted personal ones to more questions of gravity, it was informative laced with entertaining witty repartee too. People or persons from various sections of the society had volleys of questions thrown to the DGP, which was compelling and pertinent questions. The nature of the questions and the passion of it can only be said to reflect the angst amongst the people of Manipur. Every individual of this state will have many unique questions in their hearts and mind that need to be addressed and redressed. Yet, every question will not have an answer and few may not be answerable. Question that will come even without putting a thought will always be on how and when can we enjoy that sense of security and justice. A million dollar question, which if I may say so can be answered when individuals of every section of our society wake up from the deep slumber of passivity and chronic fear. People of this place are peace-loving, leisure loving,, with a generous topping of laid-back attitude, indifference, poor communication and assertive skill, with aggressive bent of mind and poor anger control. All these precipitated and aggravated by poor economic conditions, unemployment, fast track globalization, and down-hill sliding social fabric. But then, all is not lost and so poor. Put to test in any field we can and have excelled. We have untapped potential of qualities and virtues that need to be chanellised in right direction. We appear to be misdirected, misled, misunderstood or perhaps have simply stopped on the track. A phase of dormancy. It’s time we pulled ourselves up to prevent from moving on to the phase of extinct emotion, intellect, duties and responsibilities. We hear-groups of people and activists shouting hoarse at any opportune forum of human rights, pointing fingers speaking aggressively. Human rights stand not for one or few groups of people but for all and every human being, should not be forgotten. Human rights come in a package of respect for human life, sense of duty and responsibility, justice and security, law abiding not taking law unto self, productive contribution to society to name a few.
Every institution of government or non-government will always have some erring persons with faulty behaviour which is quite universal. But minimizing the error should be a constant effort. And as the DGP has rightly accepted that such do exist in his department too. Passing judgments followed by hue and cry based on few criterion of wrongdoing will be like missing the wood for the tree. The larger paerspective narrowing to myopic vision have never yielded good results. This goes for any department working for the people. The onus of responsibilities must be a shared one and not to be heaped on those in government service only. Nevertheless, the police or for that matter other departments staff, employees need to rethink and improve upon their psyche in line with their assigned duties and the prevailing situation. A helpful, pleasant demeanor will never come amiss. The young lady’s question on eves-teasing by police personnel is a matter to be considered. Notwithstanding the police personnel being a human, a man and a pakhang, respect for his uniform and for his solemn duty as a protector and law keeper should never miss his sensibility. In fact, they are the ones public expect to round up men who misbehave with women. The general feelings of the people is a sense of helplessness and hopelessness caught between the devil and the deep sea. Those with the batons or guns may win the first round, but the ultimate reaction of the masses can never be ignored, if at all we start reacting appropriately. Our society is full of polices, be it uniformed or otherwise, policing every activities good or bad. The moot question is who will police those polices? The masses of Manipur are a frustrated lot, everything so rrestricted, constricted and conflicted living in a claustrophobic vacuum. We frequently see pent-up frustration, anger and intolerance giving way to mayhem, pelting stones, pulling down houses, burning vehicles, bashing, tonsuring and lynching people, aggressive behaviour on the slightest of pretext or provocation.
Manipur is besieged by hordes of problems, many are life-threatening, fear inducing and anxiety-provoking. Drug and alcohol , HIV’AIDS, adolescents problem, academic problem, law and order, social unrest, extortion, intimidations, unnatural and unwarranted deaths, JACs, perennial sprouting of agencies for nameless causes, saviour agencies, just to name a few. Whether it is a solution or has it complicated the issue is for all to judge.
The respected DGP had rightly said that police force is a close representation of the government and hence the attention. A tough and thankless job. People are of the notion that all answers to questions can be answered and that all social ills can be and should be remedied by them. This perception cannot be deemed as entirely wrong and the police have to live up to the expectation as far as practicable. The DGP, despite his various limitations of being a government servant, head of a force and as an individual, a part and parcel of this society did give answers as close to the truth as humanly possible. The real and satisfying answers to many questions are more or less known to both sides. But the catch 22 situation happen to be the speed breaker. The DGP will definitely get full mark if he now rewrite his school days essay “Life of a Cripple” based on the people and life in this state. As of now any number of questions can come up but who can answer them is in itself a big question. Remedial measures is what everyone expected when questions were formulated in their minds. Everyone is debating on the effect and fallout of a cause. Awareness of the cause of the situation we all are in today will certainly go a long way to alleviate the suffering. And the police force do have quite a big share to contribute. All its need is honesty, sincerity and the will to help. The questions put to the DGP are indeed cries for help and one can gauge the turmoil, uncertainty, helplessness and suppressed anger felt by the masses, represented by the group who interacted in the programme. It was a forum with a small opportunity to vent everyone’s troubled thoughts. It may be one of a kinds but the beginning itself deserve appreciation. It will not be wrong to expect many more in the near future so that questions of the masses be herd and answers from appropriate authorities heard to believe. Words of advise to the students community by the DGP that their books should be their God and that hard work counts is indeed a gospel truth.
The message that everyone should inculcate human qualities viz honesty, sincerity, hard work and compassion. I have my own few questions to the DGP.
Shouldn’t compulsory wearing of helmets for bikers/pillion riders be put into force.
Why not chalan to traffic rule breakers instead of money changing hands, deflating tyres, decamping with spare tyres, sidewings of scooters etc?
Why should one-way traffic be converted to two way for so-called uniformed privileged personnel’s vehicles?
Is it required that police vehicles should always overtake any vehicles regardless of any traffic situation or inconvenience?
Uncivil sinister glaring and shouting to whoever delay in making side is an unpleasant and frequent scene around town. If at all they are in grave emergency, headlights may be on to signal their urgency and right of way.
People of Manipur are generally allergic to any kind of norms, rules and regulations and this can be one of the factors creating a messy traffic drama. A repeated sensitization by information and education programme at least on traffic rules may help reduce stress level. All said and done I would like to conclude by looking forward to more psyco-social and intellectual oriented encounters.
http://www.ifp.co.in/ArticleFull.asp?ArticleID=206
Meet the DGP programme was indeed an interesting and enterprising venture. From light-hearted personal ones to more questions of gravity, it was informative laced with entertaining witty repartee too. People or persons from various sections of the society had volleys of questions thrown to the DGP, which was compelling and pertinent questions. The nature of the questions and the passion of it can only be said to reflect the angst amongst the people of Manipur. Every individual of this state will have many unique questions in their hearts and mind that need to be addressed and redressed. Yet, every question will not have an answer and few may not be answerable. Question that will come even without putting a thought will always be on how and when can we enjoy that sense of security and justice. A million dollar question, which if I may say so can be answered when individuals of every section of our society wake up from the deep slumber of passivity and chronic fear. People of this place are peace-loving, leisure loving,, with a generous topping of laid-back attitude, indifference, poor communication and assertive skill, with aggressive bent of mind and poor anger control. All these precipitated and aggravated by poor economic conditions, unemployment, fast track globalization, and down-hill sliding social fabric. But then, all is not lost and so poor. Put to test in any field we can and have excelled. We have untapped potential of qualities and virtues that need to be chanellised in right direction. We appear to be misdirected, misled, misunderstood or perhaps have simply stopped on the track. A phase of dormancy. It’s time we pulled ourselves up to prevent from moving on to the phase of extinct emotion, intellect, duties and responsibilities. We hear-groups of people and activists shouting hoarse at any opportune forum of human rights, pointing fingers speaking aggressively. Human rights stand not for one or few groups of people but for all and every human being, should not be forgotten. Human rights come in a package of respect for human life, sense of duty and responsibility, justice and security, law abiding not taking law unto self, productive contribution to society to name a few.
Every institution of government or non-government will always have some erring persons with faulty behaviour which is quite universal. But minimizing the error should be a constant effort. And as the DGP has rightly accepted that such do exist in his department too. Passing judgments followed by hue and cry based on few criterion of wrongdoing will be like missing the wood for the tree. The larger paerspective narrowing to myopic vision have never yielded good results. This goes for any department working for the people. The onus of responsibilities must be a shared one and not to be heaped on those in government service only. Nevertheless, the police or for that matter other departments staff, employees need to rethink and improve upon their psyche in line with their assigned duties and the prevailing situation. A helpful, pleasant demeanor will never come amiss. The young lady’s question on eves-teasing by police personnel is a matter to be considered. Notwithstanding the police personnel being a human, a man and a pakhang, respect for his uniform and for his solemn duty as a protector and law keeper should never miss his sensibility. In fact, they are the ones public expect to round up men who misbehave with women. The general feelings of the people is a sense of helplessness and hopelessness caught between the devil and the deep sea. Those with the batons or guns may win the first round, but the ultimate reaction of the masses can never be ignored, if at all we start reacting appropriately. Our society is full of polices, be it uniformed or otherwise, policing every activities good or bad. The moot question is who will police those polices? The masses of Manipur are a frustrated lot, everything so rrestricted, constricted and conflicted living in a claustrophobic vacuum. We frequently see pent-up frustration, anger and intolerance giving way to mayhem, pelting stones, pulling down houses, burning vehicles, bashing, tonsuring and lynching people, aggressive behaviour on the slightest of pretext or provocation.
Manipur is besieged by hordes of problems, many are life-threatening, fear inducing and anxiety-provoking. Drug and alcohol , HIV’AIDS, adolescents problem, academic problem, law and order, social unrest, extortion, intimidations, unnatural and unwarranted deaths, JACs, perennial sprouting of agencies for nameless causes, saviour agencies, just to name a few. Whether it is a solution or has it complicated the issue is for all to judge.
The respected DGP had rightly said that police force is a close representation of the government and hence the attention. A tough and thankless job. People are of the notion that all answers to questions can be answered and that all social ills can be and should be remedied by them. This perception cannot be deemed as entirely wrong and the police have to live up to the expectation as far as practicable. The DGP, despite his various limitations of being a government servant, head of a force and as an individual, a part and parcel of this society did give answers as close to the truth as humanly possible. The real and satisfying answers to many questions are more or less known to both sides. But the catch 22 situation happen to be the speed breaker. The DGP will definitely get full mark if he now rewrite his school days essay “Life of a Cripple” based on the people and life in this state. As of now any number of questions can come up but who can answer them is in itself a big question. Remedial measures is what everyone expected when questions were formulated in their minds. Everyone is debating on the effect and fallout of a cause. Awareness of the cause of the situation we all are in today will certainly go a long way to alleviate the suffering. And the police force do have quite a big share to contribute. All its need is honesty, sincerity and the will to help. The questions put to the DGP are indeed cries for help and one can gauge the turmoil, uncertainty, helplessness and suppressed anger felt by the masses, represented by the group who interacted in the programme. It was a forum with a small opportunity to vent everyone’s troubled thoughts. It may be one of a kinds but the beginning itself deserve appreciation. It will not be wrong to expect many more in the near future so that questions of the masses be herd and answers from appropriate authorities heard to believe. Words of advise to the students community by the DGP that their books should be their God and that hard work counts is indeed a gospel truth.
The message that everyone should inculcate human qualities viz honesty, sincerity, hard work and compassion. I have my own few questions to the DGP.
Shouldn’t compulsory wearing of helmets for bikers/pillion riders be put into force.
Why not chalan to traffic rule breakers instead of money changing hands, deflating tyres, decamping with spare tyres, sidewings of scooters etc?
Why should one-way traffic be converted to two way for so-called uniformed privileged personnel’s vehicles?
Is it required that police vehicles should always overtake any vehicles regardless of any traffic situation or inconvenience?
Uncivil sinister glaring and shouting to whoever delay in making side is an unpleasant and frequent scene around town. If at all they are in grave emergency, headlights may be on to signal their urgency and right of way.
People of Manipur are generally allergic to any kind of norms, rules and regulations and this can be one of the factors creating a messy traffic drama. A repeated sensitization by information and education programme at least on traffic rules may help reduce stress level. All said and done I would like to conclude by looking forward to more psyco-social and intellectual oriented encounters.
http://www.ifp.co.in/ArticleFull.asp?ArticleID=206
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