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Constable Rakesh Kumar Singh, 36, is in charge of mess No. 4 at the Ranchi Police Lines. He desperately needs someone who can roll out 1,000 rotis within three hours. His most efficient cook, Shrawan Dube, 42, has been 'pulled out' of duty just when he began preparing dinner for 100 constables. Dube will be marked present on the office rolls and will draw salary for cooking food for the constables. In reality, he will be cooking delicacies at the Ranchi Police Club, a recreational hub for middle-rung police officers.
The officers have taken the cue from their seniors, who use police cooks and other staff as their domestic help. So jawans go hungry while cooks are shanghaied for officer duty. 'This is a regular affair,' says Anup Thakur, 27, the other cook at mess No. 4. Thakur spent all of May cooking at the home of the Ranchi city superintendent of police.
The police and the paramilitary forces recruit cooks and other staff such as barbers, washermen, water carriers, cobblers, gardeners and sweepers to assist personnel engaged in law and order and combat duties. Usually, a police company of 150 personnel has to be accompanied by five cooks, three water carriers, a sweeper and a barber. A majority of the police cooks-Grade IV employees who are not supposed to work in private or official homes of senior officers-however are made to serve the officers and their relatives. Sometimes, IPS officers take their favourite cooks along when they proceed on Central deputation.
Most of these violations are done with the tacit approval of the police brass. The cooks and other staff work at home; but officially, they are shown working in police kitchens. The Government continues releasing their salaries. The Grade IV staff cannot speak up against their superiors. The police manual allows officers of superintendent of police rank and above to dismiss or suspend any personnel they feel are negligent or unfit in their discharge of duty
http://news.in.msn.com/exclusives/it/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250226115
The officers have taken the cue from their seniors, who use police cooks and other staff as their domestic help. So jawans go hungry while cooks are shanghaied for officer duty. 'This is a regular affair,' says Anup Thakur, 27, the other cook at mess No. 4. Thakur spent all of May cooking at the home of the Ranchi city superintendent of police.
The police and the paramilitary forces recruit cooks and other staff such as barbers, washermen, water carriers, cobblers, gardeners and sweepers to assist personnel engaged in law and order and combat duties. Usually, a police company of 150 personnel has to be accompanied by five cooks, three water carriers, a sweeper and a barber. A majority of the police cooks-Grade IV employees who are not supposed to work in private or official homes of senior officers-however are made to serve the officers and their relatives. Sometimes, IPS officers take their favourite cooks along when they proceed on Central deputation.
Most of these violations are done with the tacit approval of the police brass. The cooks and other staff work at home; but officially, they are shown working in police kitchens. The Government continues releasing their salaries. The Grade IV staff cannot speak up against their superiors. The police manual allows officers of superintendent of police rank and above to dismiss or suspend any personnel they feel are negligent or unfit in their discharge of duty
http://news.in.msn.com/exclusives/it/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250226115