NewsKarnataka-Bantwal
Bantwal : Have you ever seen an office of the police department having the onerous responsibility of maintenance of law and order, highly dependent on borrowed infrastructure? If not then you have to visit Bantwal once.
Yes, this is the sorry tale of the Bantwal DySP office. Though it has been over ten months since the DySP office is functioning from here, no effort has been made to equip it with basic facilities. Except the fact that it has seen four DySPs during this short tenure, the rest is all a tale of woes.
What happened?
This building which was constructed during the British times, housed the Bantwal Town Police Station until last year. Ever since the station was shifted to a new premises last year, the DySP office is functioning from here. Presently, the Belthangady, Venoor, Punjalakatte, Bantwal town,Bantwal rural and Vittal stations as well as two circle police stations come under this sub-division.
As of now it is equipped with just one computer provided by the government and a printer from the DC office to facilitate Sakala service. As for the rest the other infrastructures like tables, chairs and cupboards are all borrowed.
No telephone connection!
A police department office certainly needs to have a landline connection. But the tragedy is that this office does not have one such connection. Therefore calls that come to the town police station located behind this building will have to be received by the office staff when intimated. The office also does not have a Xerox machinery, cupboards to store the files and also chairs for visitors.
When Sadananda Varnekar was the full time DySP here, he had put in efforts to make things better. A grant of Rs 15 lakh was also sanctioned by the government for building repair. Later the sanctioned funds was sent back following a proposal to construct a new traffic police station at the same site.
But ever since Varnekar was transferred, only in-charge DySPs functioned from here and none evinced interest in improving the facilities. The result-neither a traffic station has come up nor the station was provided with better amenities.
New DySP
Presently,Rashmi Paraddi has taken charge as new DySP and there are hopes that she would ensure solution to the problems. Here it is worth mentioning that even the chair of the DySP is borrowed from the town police station.
With Bantwal considered a sensitive area, there is an urgent need on the part of the government to look into the problems of the DySP office building and find solution to the same at the earliest.
