Inclusion of all police stations under the 5T initiative to provide citizen-centric service under the Mo Sarkar scheme is quite effective. There is a need of provision of adequate amount of funds under the “Other Contingency” unit for 587 PSs.
A Standing Committee report on scrutiny of demand for grants for the year 2020-21 relating to the Home Department observed this in its report presented in the State Assembly on Wednesday. It recommended that the Marine Police Stations be strengthened and well equipped to face any kind of threat in coastal areas.
The staff strength of each police station be increased at pat with the national norms of the police stations to meet the present law and order situation in the State.
Necessary steps need to be taken for opening one postmortem centre in each CHC of the State.
Mentioning that the housing satisfaction of the Police Organisation is much less than the national average, the committee recommended for provision of sufficient funds to meet the requirement and complete the ongoing projects. It recommended for enhancement of plinth area for residential area in respect of Type D, E, F houses of employees of police, fire and prisons for better living conditions.
The panel also suggested for additional provision of Rs 10 crore by the Works Department for repair and maintenance of residential quarters of Fire Service personnel.
The committee recommended that the Government consider distance as criteria for opening of new fire stations instead of “one in each block” norm to provide better rescue services to the citizen of remote areas.
Vacancies in Home Guard posts many be filled up and their salary may be increased from Rs 300 to Rs 500.
For providing fire support to VIP carcade, required SUV vehicles need to be provided and required funds be made available to the Fire Service organisation for the
service.
The other recommendations include adequate budgetary allocation for provision of ambulance to major jails, filling up the vacancy of doctors in different jails.
The committee also suggested for necessary amendments in the Recruitment Rules for completion of recruitment process with minimum three phases for different cadres in police organisation and physical test be conducted for those who are qualified in written examination require for timely completion of recruitment process. If necessary, recruitment examinations should be conducted online.
Necessary steps should be taken for opening of new Fire Service Range Offices at Bhubaneswar, Angul, Baleswar, Koraput and Rourkela.
The committee comprised MLAs Kishore Mohanty as Chairman and MLAs Jaya Narayan Mishra, Anant Das, Pranab Prakash Das, Rohit Pujari, Prasant Muduli, Braja Kishore Pradhan, K Narayan Rao, Mohammad Moquim, Ramesh Chandra Sai, Devi Ranjan Tripathy and Sanjib Mallick as members.