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| Mantris, babus enjoy security, lower rung employees face public ire | | | Saqib Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 22: While ministers and bureaucrats carry a posse of policemen along with them and hardly anybody dares to raise voice before them, it is the lower officials who have to face the backlash from the public for not doing their work.
The ramifications of any public policy which apparently seems annoying to the public are usually faced by the lower rung employees who face public wrath to the extent of being manhandled.
This could be gauged from the figures of the police department. Two cases of assaults on public servants get reported on an average every day in the state and most of the people at the receiving end are lower rung officials.
According to the police data, as many as 535 cases of assault on government servants were reported in the state in 2015, while in 2014, 536 cases were registered.
Over past many years, numerous incidents have been reported in the state when government employees including store keepers, plumbers and sweepers have become victims of public ire.
The cases of manhandling of government employees is mostly being witnessed in the Health Department where medicos posted both in urban as well as rural areas complain about it.
The Health staff say that they have to face the public wrath very often inside hospitals in the form of 'abuses' and 'attacks'.
"Whenever there is an emergency case, we have to hear abuses and harassment from the furious attendants. We usually don't respond to them but at times there are incidents when a doctor or other medical staff is assaulted by the attendants and injured grievously," said a ward boy.
Earlier this year doctors at Srinagar's SMHS hospital had to go on protest after a couple of their colleagues were beaten by the attendants of a patient who had died inside the hospital.
Due to the repeated 'assaults', the doctors over the years have been demanding adequate security cover for the inside the hospitals.
Similarly the incidents of assaults are common among the tax recovery officials from various departments including PHE, PDD, telecommunication companies and Srinagar Municipal Corporation. In Jammu, the employees face similar attacks from the public.
"At local level, it is we who have to deal with the public. Normally at many ration depots people beat our employees during ration distribution," said Hilal Ahmad, a ration depot from Srinagar.
Besides people, there have been multiple incidents when ministers had manhandled the government servants while discharging their duties.
Earlier in 2013, a minister had allegedly assaulted Chief Executive Officer of Kishtwar Development Authority inside his office.
Similarly, a top minister's guard had also beaten a traffic constable in Srinagar who later had to face suspension after action was initiated against him. |
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