Cops To React Within 5 Minutes To Bihari Migrants Distress Call

[Guest PunjabSingh]

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100110/ldh1.htm#1

Ludhiana, January 9

Post the recent incident of migrants' fury following anger due to police inaction, the Punjab Police will now react to any distress call coming from the migrant-dominated areas within five minutes.

A police party from the nearest police station will reach the place of call within this time to hear the grievances. This was said by Punjab, Director-General of Police PS Gill, who was in the city as part of confidence-building measures initiated to woo migrants back.

He added that till the time more cops were posted in the pickets, specially set up for the migrant areas, the police from the nearest police stations would be rushed to the spot.

The DGP, while addressing a specially convened function oraganised by the Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertaking (CICU), said the migrants would not be neglected, as their complaints would be redressed.

Industrialists have helped the police to get 100 boards, which will have Focal Point police station with its phone numbers painted on them. These will be put up in migrant-dominated areas for their convenience.

Blaming vested interests for the entire migrant-local episode, the DGP said the issue was fuelled by some peoplefor their own vested interests.

He said the migrants and locals had been living in complete harmony with each other for the past many decades. Never ever such an issue had arisen.

‘‘But we should take this as a wake-up call, as the issues were being swept under the carpet for a long time and that had fanned the tempers of the migrants, ’’ he remarked

Earlier, the SSP Dr SS Gill gave a presentation on the critical analysis of the violence in Ludhiana. He said migrants needed to be treated well, their grievances redressed properly, facilities like healthcare, provident fund and residentship needed to be given to them. The government should ensure that the industrialists paid adequate grants to workers after accidental death. The administration should ensure free -residential quarters for slum dwellers and poor. A separate railway-reservation counter for migrants and similar facilities should be provided to them as that of residents so that they feel accepted here, he added.

[Guest PunjabSingh]

Votaan Sikhaan ton tay surakshaa Bhaiyaan nu ?

I dont think any Bhaiya votes for Akali dal .

[jkvlondon]

The way sikhs r moving to west in 20 years from now punjab will be a sikh minority state

and you will be sitting all alone watching the dharam getting stronger