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Despite ban, police home orderlies still serving as cooks, gardeners, dhobis

  • The home orderly system, a legacy of British Raj, was abolished by the State government but continues to thrive by oral orders of higher officials.
  • The Karnataka Information Commission has taken serious objection to violation of government order.
  • A list of high ranking police officials, including DGP R K Dutta, Minister K J George, who have home orderlies has been released to the media.
Despite a ban Karnataka police home orderlies still serving as cooks gardeners dhobis

The Karnataka Information Commission has taken serious objection to violation of government order, with regard to abolition of home orderly system in the police department. It is found that several high ranking officials, including DGP R K Dutta, Minister K J George and others are continuing to procure the services of orderlies, mostly by oral orders. Currently there are 1239 home orderlies serving in various high ranking officials.

The Information Commission had asked the Police Department to submit information about cadets in KSRP and IRB battalion working as orderlies, but the department failed to provide information of the same.  Taking serious objection to this neglect, KIC Commissioner L Krishnamurthy has issued orders to Additional Chief Secretary P K Gurg, to submit within a month, an implementation report of the GO isused on March 8, 2017, in this regard.

The abolition order had come as a result of protest by social activists for engaging the services of police constables as home orderlies. An initiative was taken by former DG & IGP Ajay Kumar Singh to abolish the system, instead sanction orderly allowance to the officials.

The Information Commission has taken serious objection to senior officials giving oral orders to allot home orderlies. It has isused an order to Additional Chief Secretary P K Gurg to implement the GO immediately and also submit a report within a month.

Following an application requesting information about the home orderlies, the official in charge of providing the answer was found to transfer the application to Belgaum, Mysore, Kalburgi, Munirabad and Vijaypura, overstepping its jurisdiction.

The applicant had submitted an appeal to the Commission in this regard. The Commission inquired into the appeal and issued an order on June 8, 2017.

The duties of now abolished home orderlies were to accompany the official at all times, serve the official at home as manual labour doing household chores like washing, gardening, dropping and picking up children to school etc. It was a system which had its origin in the Colonial Raj.

 

Here is a list of 15 officials who are using home orderly services illegally:

1.      K J George, Urban Development Minister - T M Chikkanna - Orderly

2.      R K Dutta, DIG - 5 orderlies deputed - Anjan Murthy, Munisiddappa, Kumar, Srinivas, Chikkaswamy.

3.      Dr P Ravindranatha, ADGP, - Sriramulu, Rajashekhara, 2 orderlies.

4.      Pratapa Reddy, ADGP - COD, - Srinivas, S Manjunath - 2 orderlies.

5.      Sunil Kumar, ADGP, MD, Housing Board, - S F Kadar, C Gangadhara, 2 orderlies.

6.      Kamal Panth, ADGP, Administration - K R Mahadevaiah, orderly.

7.      H N satyanarayana rao, ADGP- Prison,-  C S Subramaniyan, orderly.

8.      M N Reddy, DGP, Home Guards, - Ravikumar, orderly.

9.      Malini Krishnamurthy, Additional Commissioner, - M Muniyappa, J Nityananda, 2 orderlies.

10.    Arun Chakravarthi, JGP-ISD, - T Chikka Nanjegowda, H Suresh, 2 orderlies.

11.     Charan Reddy, IGP, SIT, K Hanumantharayappa, M Niranjan, 2 orderlies.

12.    Subrahmanyeswara Rao, Police Commissioner, Mysore,  - M P Maruti, orderly.

13.    Hemanth Nimbalkar, IGP, Additional CP,East - name not available.

14.    Ajay Hilori, DCP, Bengaluru East, - Mallayya, orderly.

15.    BNS Reddy, IGP, KSRTC Bengaluru, - S Y Ravikumar, orderly.

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