The Whistleblower

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 “There is no alternative to this administrative system... The Union will go; you will not have a united India if you do not have good All-India Service which has the independence to speak out its mind, which has sense of security that you will stand by your work... If you do not adopt this course, then do not follow the present Constitution. Substitute something else... these people are the instrument. Remove them and I see nothing, but a picture of chaos all-round the country.”

-Sri Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, First Home Minister of India

There are many professions a person can choose and will choose for a living and in every country there are certain professions which are very respectable and the people in that profession are also very responsible and should be very much competent to pursue their careers in that particular profession.

There are certain criteria a person considers when he wants to choose his career, the popular “jargons” used are words like work life balance, job satisfaction, work culture, job enhancement phew... the list almost endless.

But there are other kind of people who pursue more to the benefit of society and this whole world rather than for mere monetary gain and other perquisites, the immediate words which come to your mind are doctors, lawyers, our soldiers, the police force, nurses, hawkers and cleaners the garbage lifters I am sorry the list is so long that I am going to stop at that as you know where I am coming from.

We all know there are certain positions in the various Governments of the world which are considered very powerful, in our country where we are following the British mercantile law to this day, the brilliant organizational set up which made it possible to almost conquer the whole world in the name of a company.

The civil services which was a part of the British imperial services to the queen (1893–1946).  With the passing of the Government of India Act 1919, the Imperial Services headed by the Secretary of State for India, were split into two – All India Services and Central Services and the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), The Indian police Service (IPS), The Indian Forest Service (IFS), The Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) was born.         

The aspirants have a tough journey to be a part any of the above cadres the recruitment process is the most tough and testing.

Officers are recruited from Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. They are also promoted from State Civil Services and selected from non-state civil service. Unlike candidates selected for other civil services, a person once appointed to the Indian Administrative Service or Indian Foreign Service (IFS) becomes ineligible to reappear in Civil Services Examination, because, prior to 1979 a person to be eligible for IAS/IFS had to appear for additional papers but even after the UPSC civil services exam was made common, the status quo was maintained.

After getting selected, candidates undergo training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, (Uttarakhand) LBSNAA, Mussoorie for IAS.

The Indian Police Service

It was again introduced by the British Government in  1861 under the Indian Councils Act and was called superior Police services meant for moral policing and controlling the revolutionary movement in the Indian freedom struggle.

Prior to Independence, senior police officers belonging to the Imperial Police (IP) were appointed by the Secretary of State on the basis of a competitive examination. The first open civil service examination for admission to the service was held in England in June 1893 and the ten top candidates were appointed as probationers in the Indian (Imperial) Police. It is not possible to pinpoint an exact date on which the Indian Police came formally into being. Around 1907, the Secretary of State's officers were directed to wear the letters "IP" on their epaulettes in order to distinguish them from the other officers not recruited by the Secretary of State through examination. In this sense, 1907 could be regarded as the starting point.

1948, a year after India gained independence; the Imperial Police was replaced by IPS. The main objectives of this service is to fulfil duties based on border responsibilities, in the areas of maintenance of public peace and order, crime prevention, investigation, and detection, collection of intelligence, VIP security, counter-terrorism, border policing, railway policing, tackling smuggling, drug trafficking, economic offences, corruption in public life, disaster management, enforcement of socio-economic legislation, biodiversity and protection of environmental laws etc.

Leading and commanding the Indian Intelligence Agencies like Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Criminal Investigation Department (CID) etc., Indian Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, Civil and Armed Police Forces in all the states and union territories.

Every citizen in India is always amazed by an officer be it an IAS or the IPS seeing their strength and velour.

Alas, as Shakespeare quoted there are more inside enemies in the hamlet than there are outside.

There is a huge conspiracy going in the recent times where senior and strict officers are being transferred or even being murdered through proxies and made to look like suicides or homicides unreasonably for the only reason that they are honest few names worthy to be mentioned as here Sri DK Ravi, recently Sri Anurag Tiwari, why are the investigative agencies not stringent about the culprits behind their tragedies and not brought into court?

The latest and the most shameful incident of IPS officer  DIG Roopa D Moudgil who was the whistleblower for the way things were going on in the Bangalore central jail being transferred  to traffic department  without any proper justifications and Honorable chief minister Siddaramaiah just snubbing the issue on camera!

Come on how low can the political class get to? Have they lost their complete character forget as a politician I don’t have any doubts about it, what about as a person?

Have they lost their total bearings of thinking and only think about vote bank politics and how to make loads of dirty money for their future generations?

And recently I have observed the only way of enforcement happening in most critical issues in India let it be a an IIT grace marks issue, beef, and so on is through the honorable supreme court why not the lower courts be empowered? why are we the citizens of the country so callous about how things are going around us. Don’t we care for this country? I am sure many of you have been thinking in similar lines but have not expressed or not care to.

We have to come out of this junk atmosphere of useless circulation of memes and useless social networking and start sharing something useful which should be proactive and activate the think centers in us, come back to the India of wisdom where all Indians were so brilliant they the occidental society craved for our brains, remember even today the great organizations are running because of Indians and the father of the Pentium chip which made a difference in the computing industry  is an Indian Mr. Vinod Dham who is called the unsung hero of the silicon valley.

Why are we  not true to ourselves in our own country? Is  not a simple case of enforcement: The court has convicted a woman named Ms. Sasikala  and sentenced her to serve her term of punishment why in first place the political class should involve in the functioning of a prison!

Photo Courtesy- Republic TV

Is it not laughable, I think it is unimaginable that we all are living in magical worlds and unconcerned and we don’t think about the law and order situation in India.

I urge the youth who read this blog to start thinking about such issues and tailor a solution and present it in forums so that we can persuade the Government to implement our suggestions, remember just by casting votes your duty is not over, you need to cast vote to person whom you think should have the true qualities of a leader, we need huge phenomenal change tremors that should give out a clear message to these politicians who think we are all callus.

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Credits to wikipedia.com for the some of the historical references.

I really appreciate your time and patience, have a great week.