CM directs cops to step up vigil

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday directed the police officials to step up the security arrangements in view of the festive months of Shravan and Ramzan and leave no stone upturned to maintain peace and communal harmony at all cost in the state.
The CM issued these instructions on the basis of briefing given to her by cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh after a review meeting of state's law and order situation and development works held here at the Tilak hall of the Vidhan Bhavan.
The police, the CM said, should be extra vigilant in all sensitive districts and take necessary measures in accordance to law to round up the anti-social elements hell-bent on creating chaos in the society. In this connection, she said, district magistrates and police chiefs and all zonal IGs and divisional commissioners should hold a periodic review of law and order situation in their respective jurisdictions and send the reports to her secretariat.
However, she said that the police should also take precautions that no injustice was done to innocent people and the court cases against those belonging to below poverty line (BPL) and in which the government was not a party, should be pursued at government expense by government counsels. She said that the benefit of this scheme should be given to all such BPL category litigants irrespective of the stage of their case.
For the effective control over law and order situation, she said the police should pay due attention to even the smallest incident of crime and no way it should be ignored or dismissed as insignificant. In such a situation, senior officials should visit the site of crime and prompt action should be taken before the situation goes out of hand. A timely action, she said, was greatly helpful in defusing communal situation.
She directed the officers in-charge of the four zones created recently to hold meetings in their respective jurisdictions on August 1 to review law and order situation and the pace of development works and take corrective measures on the spot.
In this regard, she said, these officials should also submit their reports to her secretariat for the follow-up action in future. She said that district magistrates/district police chiefs were free to exchange their views without any fear and adversity about the practical difficulties, if any being faced by them in running the administration and should seek their rectification immediately during meetings held by zonal officers. These zonal officers, she said, had the mandate to resolve their problems on the spot and if there was any difficulty, they could come to her for further consultations.
She said zonal officers should also ensure to resolve any inter-district matters and take speedy action in this regard by having mutual consultations between them.
As for development works, she said physical verifications should be done on the spot of various scheme launched by the state government and works done under the Centrally sponsored MANREGA. She said deterrent action should be taken against all those guilty of lapses and corruption in the implementation of these development programmes.
In this scheme, she said priority should be given to rebore 41,000 tube wells, which had already been identified and ensure the installation of new hand pumps in order to solve the drinking water problem in areas facing any deficiency of potable water. In the same vein, all illegal possession on the government land should be removed and those of landless laborers should be allocated land on pattas in rural areas. She also said that thana diwas and district health meetings should be held regularly as per their schedule and officers showing no interest should be punished.