THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, January 22: The third Jan Shikayat Samadhan program once again witnessed a flood of complaints, mirroring the deluge seen in its two previous editions. As before, land disputes dominated the grievances—it was all about land, and nothing but land.
Persistent land conflicts
Since the commencement of work on a four-lane highway in the region, land issues have spread like a bacterial infection, gripping the administration and refusing to subside. Even disputes over just two feet of land lead to fierce confrontations, with parties ready to go to extreme lengths to assert their claims.
And in Jan Shikaayat Samadhan programme the parties make the best of their arguments for their claim to land. The police hear it like an impassioned viewer as its intervention is minimal except where there is an apprehension of the breakdown of law and order.
The third Jan Shikaayat Samadhan programme saw six cases of land issues within five minutes of the start of this programme here in the Town Thana. The IG of police Sunil Bhaskar must have understood soon that it’s Palamu where land matters most.
Sources said the genesis of the extremism here is rooted in the land. It was first between the landlords and the tillers. Today it’s in the family itself. The son is against the father, the father against his own brother and so on and so forth.
The petitioners had bunches of stapled papers for their land to buttress their claims and how they face resistance they narrated in their own way in this Jan Shikaayat Samadhan programme today.
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IG assures action and fair hearings
The IG of police Palamu zone Sunil Bhaskar and SP Reeshma Ramesan heard the petitioners patiently making them believe the police will go about it as far as it can and where the cases are to be referred to or endorsed to the concerned officials, police will keep a tab on it.
The way the IG of police Sunil Bhaskar and SP Reeshma Ramesan listened to the complaints made the petitioners hopeful of some resolution of the problems coming to them.
Zonal IG of police just knew the public here in general is beset with land issues. They look towards the police. Now the police have to live up to the expectations of the petitioners.
Call for administrative support in resolving land issues
The task is difficult and challenging. The Jharkhand Story correspondent reminded the IG of police Sunil Bhaskar that as there is a galore of land issues here, the presence of just one CO is nothing but a lackadaisical approach of the land revenue department towards the problem.
There ought to be in attendance right from Rajswa Karamchari to the Deputy Collector of Revenue to the Additional Collector. IG Sunil Bhaskar said he too noticed this and he would talk to the DC in this regard.
There was no rhetoric. It was SP Reeshma Ramesan who first spoke. She told the modest gathering of the petitioners that police follow up on complaints. The complaints are not left to rot. Police keep a tab. Her words soothed the petitioners most.
IG Sunil Bhaskar said, “Good people are not to fear the police. It’s the bad one to dread the police. Good people shouldn’t fear the police. Wardee is always with the good people.”
“We are here to bridge the hiatus between the police and the public. We are for public-friendly police,” reiterated the IG of police.
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Awareness on cyber fraud and police services
The two top cops IG and the SP had a word of caution against the cyber fraud and white-collared thugs who siphon off hard-earned money.
Both the top cops asked people to use 112 in any distress where intervention by the police is inevitable and 1930 when cyber frauds play foul with anyone’s money.
IG explained what eFIR and zeroFIR are and how to use it. He spoke in a common man’s vocabulary so that what he said didn’t pass over the head of the common man.
The Jan Shikaayat Samadhan programme today was a piece of awareness as well as setting up a bond with the common man.
A positive outreach initiative by police
IG of police Sunil Bhaskar said, “Our DGP is most keen to have such an outreach of police with the public. This programme is a positive step towards it. It’s a well-meaning initiative of the DGP all in the larger interest of the common man”.
The programme is Jan Shikaayat which is an individual’s grievance where the police are to move within the parameters of law.
DGP Anurag Gupta’s Jan Shikaayat Samadhan programme is now a household name here where people wait for it to be heard looking forward to getting justice sooner.
There were present additional SP Ops Rakesh Singh, IPS on probation Divyansh Shukla, SDPO Sadar Mani Bhushan Prasad and host of other police officers.
