An habit and practice inherited by the Indians from their previous British rulers, to use their subordinate staffs as orderlies , indiscriminately by the ministers as well as the bureaucrats, police administration,and equally dragged to defence personals.
A survey conducted by Mahiti Hakku Adhyayana Kendra, Bangalore, that more than 3,000 police constables and head constables are working as orderlies and performing menial work at the residences of police officers of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and above, for which Rs. 78 crore a year are being spent by the State government .
As there are no clear cut guidelines, circulars, communications, or orders issued in respect of administration of orderlies in the Police Department, these orderlies are asked to do tasks such as washing clothes, mopping floor, gardening, shopping, and taking care of dogs. Orderlies are being used as an alternative to domestic help.
There have been instances of police constables spending their entire service as orderlies till their retirement,and as many graduate and postgraduate candidates are recruited as police constables and given rigorous training, now a days, it seems to be colossal loss to their talent as well a shame to their dignity.
Even 67 years after the freedom from the Raj rule, but we still use the services of a public servant for performing domestic work at the residence of a police or administrative officer or elected representative of people including the ministers , and it is the said story, most inhuman and shame to our Independence, where the colour of ruler's skin has changed not the slavery.
But still as our leaders and administrators cannot possibly survive without the services of such orderlies, while exhuming billions of rupees from the exchequer in this head, the tax payer hard earned money, we at least need to legislate certain binding guidelines specifying the duties and responsibilities of orderlies, and remove this uncalled slavery equally in the line of removal of scavenging practice.
A start may be done with a suitable legislative change in the rules in the Police Manual,which is still a copied version British time and the idea may be incorporated in other similar areas.
A start may be done with a suitable legislative change in the rules in the Police Manual,which is still a copied version British time and the idea may be incorporated in other similar areas.