seshavikrala-views and vision

Thursday, June 2, 2011

intelligence -what it is--how to work out-

(Article published in the “Rail Sainik” R P F Newsletter and Magazine,1993) INTELLIGENCE	Intelligence is the back bone of the administrative decision. It should not mislead or misguide. Be quick and prompt in reporting matters to superiors.
NOTE	Note that you are being treated as the eyes and ears of the administrative net work. Do not note matters etc. at the meetings, or on the spot or before your Source.
TIME	Time is precious in Intelligence matters and reports. Do not loose a single minute. Be tactful in dealing with people. Let him not know that you are actually enquiring about the subject.
ENRICH	Enrich your general knowledge about matters that may affect the organization and about day-to-day political changes. Also about target individuals, habits, activities, etc.
LINK	Link always the previous papers, matters and other references to save time of the superiors, that too in a proper way.
LEARN	Learn to know more about men, materials, rules, activities and habits of all concerned.
IMPROVE	Improve your basic knowledge on Intelligence net work in and around you and also improve writing power.
GENERAL	Generally keep your self in touch with all matters and men and happenings. Note and remember.
ENQUIRE	Enquire and interrogate on 6 Ws and 1 H, When, Where, Why, Who, Whom, Which, and How.
NOURISH	Assimilate and digest the Intelligence collected through Sources, and then nourish the Intelligence net work.
CONSULT & CONTACT	Consult and compare your source information with your counterpart on very important matters, and also cross check. Contacts are back bone to Intelligence; keep it up with your sources. Always try to develop counter-intelligence system.
ENSURE	Ensure before dispatch that your Intelligence report is going only to the right person at right time. Or the entire effort may go waste and the purpose will be defeated.

Alfred Sloan, the former Chief Executive Officer of The General Motors while dealing with management concepts remarked- ‘… I shall not tell you what to write, what to study, or what conclusions to come to. This is your task. My only instruction to you is to put down what you think is right as you see it. Do not worry about our reaction, and do not concern yourself with the compromises that might be needed to make your recommendations acceptable. There is not one executive in this company who does not know how to make every singly conceivable compromise without any help from you. But, he cannot make the right compromise unless you first tell him what right is….’

For running an organization or an establishment administration shall have to depend on various aspects which shall include the Intelligence System. It should equip it, keep it under its control and administration and create a self contained Intelligence Net Work system of its own.

THE MISSING DIMENSIONS ON SECURITY AND SAFETY OF RAIL PASSENGERS

THE MISSING DIMENSIONS ON SECURITY AND SAFETY OF PASSENGERS-A POINT OF VIEW-

(“INDIAN RAILWAYS”- MONTHLY MAGAZINE-

JUNE-2007- )

Honorable President of

India

Dr.A.P.J. Abdul kalam has presented the Presidential Colours to the Railway protection Force on 22^nd May, 2006 with certain observations and suggestions to the RPF to make rail journey safer and secure to the 12 million people including the tourists who are making use of the rail services every day.

The President reiterated:

(1) the need to remove the division of responsibility between the Government Railway Police(GRP) and Railway Protection Force(RPF);

(2) for empowering the RPF with legal powers to tackle all cognizable offences under the Indian Penal Code(IPC) and Special Acts so that there is a single point of responsibility for tackling crimes against railway passengers.

Even three decades earlier and thereafter also there were lot of dialogue and paper work on the matter. Referring to the policing and police service in the Indian Railways and the role of the RPF, its constraints and improvement, in the 1976, Shri. P.S. Ram Mohan Rio, IPS, DGP (Retd) and former Governor of the Tamil Nadu, when he worked as DIG-cum-Chief Security Commissioner, RPF, South Central Railway had observed that “the tendency to change the RPF with policing duties on the railways is on the increase, policing on the railways in regard to both maintenance or order and prevention, detection of crime relating to the person and to the passenger should be the exclusive concern of the GRP controlled by the state Governments.

Any scheme will not only result in multiplicity of agencies, frequent overlapping of responsibilities and efforts, but what is more important will generate needless frictions between the State Police Forces on the one side and the other agencies(RPF) entrusted with similar duties on the other. There is an urgent need to have another look at the pattern of organization the RPF and bring about suitable modification to enable it (RPF) to meet at least its basic tasks”.

In May, 1985 I have submitted an Article on the subject matter for publication in the RPF Journal etc., for which my Superior Officers might have thought as not worthy to be known by others and I think, filed the same.

Without going in detail about the organizational set up of the RPF, it is suffice here to mention that in terms of ‘ The Railway Protection Force Act, 1957’, it is constituted and maintained by the Central Government ( the Ministry of Railways and not by the Home Ministry) for better protection and security of the railway property. The act has been further amended in 1985 thereby the RPF has been equated as ‘Armed Force of the Union ‘.

In additions to the railway property, enhanced functions, powers and responsibilities about the safety and security of the passengers, their belongings, and passenger area were vested on the shoulders of the RPF by another amendment to the Act in the 2003 without empowering the RPF directly and independently to deal the offences pertaining to and connected therewith which eventually comes under the purview of the IPC. In short, all such cases detected or apprehended by the RPF have to be handed over to the GRP for further legal action like registration of the case, investigation and prosecution.

I would like to mention as to how the GRP and RPF are working on the railway system by quoting a sentence, “Nothing can be farther from the truth. In essence while the soil is ruined on the one hand by excessive chemicals the input ratio on the farm increases every season. The farmer is caught in a vicious cycle”—‘Slow Death: SURYA, March, 1989’.

Here, I equate soil as the RPF, excessive chemicals as the amendments to the Acts without Police powers to RPF and retaining the GRP as it was, the farm is the Railways, and farmer is the passenger.

The RPF is empowered by Law to deal with offences falling under the definition of ‘railway property’ under the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession) Act, 1966. There was amendment to the long title of the RPF Act, 1957 in the year 2003, wherein with out changing the meaning of ‘railway property’, the title has been enlarged and substituted to include passenger area and passengers; but the definition of railway property stands as it was in the year 1957, i.e.” railway property includes any goods, money or valuable security, or animal, belonging to, or in the charge or possession of, a railway administration.”.

So, to say, that the passengers and their belongings even though they come or remain within the railway /passenger area does not belong to or in the charge or in possession of a railway administration.

This fact itself shall bar the RPF from taking any action under Law to deal any offences pertaining to the above and hence invariably under all probabilities, all such cases have to be handed over to the GRP for further legal action.

Thus, the friction and imbalance between the RPF and the GRP working stood as it was earlier even after amendments to certain Acts without touching the base element of the legal powers to RPF on the offences falling under the IPC or allied Acts.

It is more and more very clear without any ambiguity that as per the statement of objects and reasons of the RPF Act, the legislation has designed to bring about a radical change in the functioning of the department, by reorganizing it, to provide in times of need, suitable assistance to the Railway Police who are charged mainly with the responsibility for overall maintenance of law and order in railway premises.

Ironically it can be seen that ’ The Police( Incitement to Disaffection) Act, 1922 ‘ has been made applicable to the RPF by virtue of its inclusion in the RPF Act making it to the subject of the Police Force only to the extent of said Act and not otherwise.

Again some other Acts like ‘ The Payment of wages Act, 1936 ‘, ‘ The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 ‘, ‘ The Factories Act,1948 ‘ or any other Law corresponding thereto shall not be applicable to the RPF. It is very precisely added by the Statutes to exclude the RPF as they are working on the Railways system which is an industry and for some extent the RPF personnel were regarded as Railway servants only to deal some offences under the Railways Act.

Even though here were amendments to the Rules (in the years 1988, 1999, 2001), pertaining to the Railway Notices of/and inquiries into accidents Rules, Statutory Investigation into Railway Accidents Rules, the name of the RPF has not been incorporated at any corner of the said Rules for its participation or association in any manner in any such inquiries or as one of the member in the joint enquiries. Here again the GRP alone has been included and entrusted by Law to deal such matters and not the RPF. However, in all such matters RPF officers associate in all respects, submit their reports, etc.

In spite of all such official exclusion by was of Rules and the Law, as per local orders, if there were any lapses on the part of the RPF personnel to the extent of and up to the rank of Inspectors, they shall be taken up departmentally in regard to their duties etc., connected to the railway accidents and untoward incidents, on its reports/enquiries into such incidents.

By ‘The Police Act,1949 ‘, the Central Government has constituted a police force for general police-district embracing two or more Union Territories and for the establishment of a Police Force therefore. The same procedure can be adopted to enforce a single Police Force on the Indian Railways.

It is pertinent to spell out that there can be some consensus between the State Governments and the Central Government either to merge the RPF and the GRP as one Uniformed Force only to deal the offences on the Railway system or to find out ways and means to include the RPF, now may be one of Central Para Military Forces (CPMF), and now to be brought at par and as one of the Police Force like that of the other Central Police Organizations ( BSF, CISF, CRPF, ITBP, Coast Guard, etc ) even by amending ‘ The Police Act,1888’ or ‘ The Police Act,1861’.

The Central Government can also make a separate Act like ‘ The Police Act, 1949 ‘, thereby including the RPF befitting as a Police Force to deal cases exclusively on Railways. The Central Government can also constitute a separate or special railway districts embracing parts of two or more States and Union Territories, and extend it to every such part of the said district the powers and jurisdiction of a Police Force as belonging to a State to be specified in the Notification. By this, the RPF can also be vested with the powers and functions of the Police Force on Railway’s System.

(PRESIDENT OF

INDIA

PRESENTS PRESIDENTIAL COLOURS TO RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE)

(“INDIAN RAILWAYS”- MONTHLY MAGAZINE-

JULY-2006)

In a colorful, solemn and inspiring parade ceremony on 22^nd May, 2006 Railway Protection Force (RPF) was presented with the Presidential Colours by the Hon’ble President of

India

, Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. The function was attended by Shri Lalu Prasad, Minister of Railways, shri R.Velu and Shri Naranbhai Rathwa, Ministers of State for Railways, Shri J.P. Batra, Chairman, Railway Board, Shri. A.K. Suri, DG/RPF and host of other dignitaries. The glittering function was organized in the RPSF premises in Dayabasti, Delhi. The Hon’ble President during his address greeted the Commanding Officers and all ranks of the RPF on the auspicious occasion.

The Hon’ble President in his speech emphasized on the need for use of information and communication technology in removing the jurisdictional anomalies arising between place of occurrence and place of reporting of crime by passengers. In his opinion the technologies, should provide a new dimension for policing, surveillance and dealing with criminal and maintaining law and order in the trains.

He also reiterated the need to remove the division of responsibility between GRP-Government Railway Police and the RPF-Railway Protection Force and empowering the RPF with legal powers to tackle all cognizable offences under the Indian Penal Code and all special acts so that there is a single point of responsibility for tackling crimes against railway passengers.

Dr. Kalam made the following suggestions to RPF to make rail journey safe and secure to the twelve million people including tourists who are making use of the rail services every day.

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS:

An analysis should be conducted about the frequency and the type of crime occurring against Railway passengers in different parts of the country. Based on this analysis special strategy should be devised for combating crimes in areas where its frequency and intensity is very high for ensuring safe travel for passengers in the region.

Also, all the RPF units should be networked in the country so that rapid mobilization of additional resources can be done in difficult areas. The Indian Railway name for the service will further be enhanced by incorporating the following addition missions for Railways-RPF:

· A child below the age of ten or a senior citizen should be able to travel from Kanyakumari to Dispur (

Assam

) safely like a child or senior citizen is able to travel from Atlanta to Madurai by air without an escort.

· A young lady should be able to travel safely without a companion from Mumbai to Patna and reach home safely.

· All the passengers traveling in the trains should feel confident that their belongings are safe and that they do not have to spend sleepless nights worrying about the loss of their luggage.

· The international; tourists should be able to feel that train travel in

India

is passenger friendly, safe and secure.

Railway Protection Force should aim for realization of such a level of safety by the year 2010.

(PRESIDENT OF

INDIA

PRESENTS PRESIDENTIAL COLOURS TO RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE)

(“INDIAN RAILWAYS”- MONTHLY MAGAZINE-

JULY-2006)

In a colorful, solemn and inspiring parade ceremony on 22^nd May, 2006 Railway Protection Force (RPF) was presented with the Presidential Colours by the Hon’ble President of

India

Dr. Kalam made the following suggestions to RPF to make rail journey safe and secure to the twelve million people including tourists who are making use of the rail services every day.

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS:

· A child below the age of ten or a senior citizen should be able to travel from Kanyakumari to Dispur (

Assam

) safely like a child or senior citizen is able to travel from Atlanta to Madurai by air without an escort.

· A young lady should be able to travel safely without a companion from Mumbai to Patna and reach home safely.

· All the passengers traveling in the trains should feel confident that their belongings are safe and that they do not have to spend sleepless nights worrying about the loss of their luggage.

· The international; tourists should be able to feel that train travel in

India

is passenger friendly, safe and secure.

Railway Protection Force should aim for realization of such a level of safety by the year 2010.

white collar jobs- white collar crimes-- seshadrivikralaviewsandvision-

WHITE COLLAR JOBS---WHITE COLLAR CRIMES- CORRUPTION AND BLACK MONEY PAVES IN-HOW TO TACKLE?

M. O. Mathai, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru’s Special Assistant, in his Book “ Reminiscences of the Nehru Age” quoted “ all politicians are like squirrels… and that no mater how old the squirrel is, it will never give up climbing.” I am of the opinion that these words are found to be equally suited to the white collar crimes and to its perceptual.

He, who knows his mother, knows his god; he who is free from debt is the richest man in the world. IN MY CONSIDERED VIEWS,THIS QUOTATION IS ONLY APPLIES TO PERSONNEL WHO ARE HONEST AND SINCERE TO THE CORE AND NOT TO OTHERS AS THEY HAVE DO NOT MAINTAIN AND LIVE ON""manam and abhimanam"...
“white collar crime”-In the present days of living, the word-white collar crime—brought out to lime light, by Mr. E. H. Sutherland, as back as in 1940s, is found to be changing its trend ,fashion and bounds. It was termed to mean ” approximately a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his legitimate occupation”.
In its 47th Report, the Law Commission termed it as” a crime which is committed in the course of once occupation by a member of the upper class of society”.
Honorable Union Minister, Mr. P.Chidamabaram as back as in 1988,while inaugurating the second annual vigilance officer’s conference at Chennai said—‘the virus of corruption appeared to envelop the whole fabric of society and when some people tended to be corrupt, even the honest people became suspect’.( The Indian Express- Daily News Paper- Hyderabad Edition, dated 22^nd March,1988).
The age old proverb continues to be up spring—“while honesty knock and waits at the door, the bribery enters in...”
It was said that any ruffian can defy the boss, the prince with impunity, and an imbecile in power sacks worthy men also if they dislikes or get them out of their division/or the zone. They also whisper that the power politics with in the department prevail. They grumble to the extent that ‘A cur that prefers to bite a shoe does not know the taste of sugar cane’.

How to deal such personalities? This is the question honestly posed by some intellectuals. Referring to some of their known officials, they said the administration, found to be finding it difficult to post such officials continuously at one place and that the other officers have even gone to the extent of rejecting the postings of such officials under them, When such was the situation, how to tackle them and curb such mal practices being adopted by such persons.

Some of them suggested that the unwarranted personalities of such nature having white collar criminality should be fished out exposed with full history of their activities and to be dealt harshly. All such persons faces to be shown openly, with out covering their faces with black bags, make them to be known and alert the authorities with wide publicity to make beware of them, to identify them, to crush them with iron hand, confiscate their properties, ill gotten money, seize the bank deposits and the like.

They continued to state that the Law to be amended to frame them and to suit to such personalities, and by hook or crook to eliminate them once for all from the department without any mercy.

It felt by them that, they are like cobwebs and cancerous to the society and to the department, in fact to the society it self. There shall be a separate department to deal such people, officers. The ill gotten wealth and luxurious properties, lands, and the like are to be brought to books to be used for other welfare purposes.

Some of the officials who are not out spoken and stick only to the assigned work found to be having a feeling that the lower cadre are dealt with severely while the higher ups are pushed aside, side lined and dealt very leniently by safe guarding the cadre officials, in the name and style of departmental rules, lacunae in the enquiry and/or no proper evidence and the like. The image of the department depends on their activities, as they are holding high level positions and ranks. The image is in their hands.

The honest handles the matter and look at them in haste and evaluate them as they stand very low rated personalities, and at times equalizes them to that of the criminal minded, or the criminal in uniform.

This engulfed matter seems to be is nothing but due to timely inaction, late reaction by the top officials who happens to work under no pressure and not serious on time bound factors to be complied with by other higher authorities.

The belief of the reformers, if any is still sinking. For this type of working system who is to be blamed? The department or the personnel involved or the top officials who just over look on suIt was said that any ruffian can defy the boss, the prince with impunity, and an imbecile in power sacks worthy men also if they dislikes or get them out of their division/or the zone. They also whisper that the power politics with in the department prevail. They grumble to the extent that ‘A cur that prefers to bite a shoe does not know the taste of sugar cane’.

The grime with fantasia fangs; the whole image is alarmingly becoming infected, and shall be damaged like germicide penetrating through its personnel, if no check mate is put in time.

It is having very long backing and recognized that the white collar crime as the most dangerous thing to the society and to the economic pattern and spreads like cancer. But, still for all, it is found to be occupying its high position through several steps and ranks, penetrate in to the minds of the corrupt and settles down and continues to dominate all others by way of influence, power, authority, status and money. It was a question as to how to eliminate it and destroy it permanently from the minds of such corrupt persons and make them to respect the country, the Law and make them to become honest to the core. It is observed that the white collar criminal activity engulfed in the minds of the personnel in such a way that it has gone to the extent for infraction in all levels and at many stages and to be managed at any cost.

Even if some good advice comes from higher authority, the well wishers, it rarely deters the cupidity and that their mind not changed. They always find themselves in good humor; find loop holes and search for escape clauses to come out from the misdeeds. The career continues until they are put behind the bars or firmly dealt with under some type of departmental action with a determined object to weed them out from the department. But again, It is observed is some such cases too, they spend huge amounts they earned to get the case viewed leniently and to set aside the punishments and the like. This is the vicious circle system and the backstreet analogical things are found to be going on.

FEATURE FOR FUTURE; DISCARD NONE IN LIFE: Read very carefully and in between the lines:

FEATURE FOR FUTURE; DISCARD NONE IN LIFE:

Read very carefully and in between the lines:

The one who has the power of realization is the one who can bring transformation.
When something goes wrong we immediately begin to look for excuses, or explanations, why that mistake happened. This finishes our power of realization and we will not be able to recognize our own mistake. Then we will not be able to work at improving ourselves and we will not be able to bring any transformation.
Instead of looking for excuses for what all happened, we need to take the opportunity to check within ourselves and see our own mistake(s). When we recognise our mistake, however small it may be, we will be able to work on it. Only when we are able to realise our own mistake, will we be able to bring about transformation in ourselves.

(A): Did YOU feel INSULTED:

· At one place or the other, or on some occasions you might have been insulted or you have felt in yourself that you have been insulted, but for the reasons not exposed, you kept quite or digested the insult, but, still, you are not happy about it- the happening- the incident and you are unable to forgive or forget about the person(s), and so on:

· The INSULT, the words, is only a vibration in the air, just touching to your heart, the heart-breaking words; it is nothing but actually feeling a physical pain in the region of the heart. It occurs only when we does not compromise with the words spoken against or toward us, this is insult only when our discrimination has in fact failed us to understand in retrospective or prospective or when our mind thoughts stopped Yoga and meditation aspects:

· When we feel insulted and then utilize the Sadhana and retire into seclusion for a while and reflect our Guru-the soul and retrieve the matters in all the ways-- that;

· He/ or they insulted only my body, mind and little self, I did not loose any self respect at all, who are they to talk about me, I am not that;

· He can not insult my real self, the soul, because he himself is my own self; I shall make best use of it to analyze it;

· By insulting my little self, he is really helping me in dissociating with it;

· His insult has enabled me to come face to face with my own egoism, my interaction with my soul, God has given me an opportunity to crush it once for all;

· The only new point of version, now I discovered is—he has pointed out openly to me what he considers/considered as a defect in me; he has given me an opportunity to analyze the same for myself;

· O’ God, I am always thankful to him:

· Now, I do not get irritated and I shall not get angry and console my self and my soul:

(B): SUCCESS at our door step:

· Success never goes or runs away for you, unless you move, run away from it;

· To have success in your life- always ask questions for your self, discriminate between the good, the bad and the worst;

· Set goals, be a team leader and the best of all learn to be a team player first;

· Always try to listen to directions, follow through on the assignments, then success follows you;

· Have faith in the working system. Faith grows only when you use it;

· Be courageous and no looking back, it takes you to your goals and you reach the destiny;

· Courage makes you to stand up and speak boldly and with out fear, as fear is a contagious disease;

· Courage and fearlessness, both take you to sit down with calmness, steady mind and listen, and then act;

· Life is great, make use of it and make the most of it;

· Try to discover your weakness and rectify for future;

· Do not expose or explore your weaknesses to others, even to dear ones; life is precious and let them not use it to down grade you, think always that some one is awaiting to let you down;

· Always stop making and contributing excuses and explanations.

(C): YOU are there for me always: rather I did not miss YOU:

· The happiness that is coming from inner peace and believing in yourself, and that I did not miss you;

· What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other, even still apart, we are together;

· A special bond holds us together, un separable by any means, a bond that grew from within, from whispered confidence, from fights and squabbles;

· You made my mind a wonderful place for you, and now also I am stronger just always, knowing that you are there within me;

· I wish you the sort of happiness and the joy, the happiness that comes from success and celebrations, and showing the world what you can do, for me of course;

· The happiness that comes from being loved and part of a meaningful relationship, we are though apart;

‘JUST HOW I FEEL- OF YOU AND FOR YOU’:

· Thank you sweetheart, just for believing in me, when I found it difficult to believe in myself::::

· Thank you for saying what I have needed to hear sometimes, instead of what I have wanted to hear…, thank you for siding with me and forgiving me, “ I love you”::::::::::; still…….

(D): BE HE LEADER AND NOT ALWAYS THE BOSS:

· The boss drives his men, the leader inspire them;

· The boss depends on authority, the leader depends on goodwill;

· The boss evokes fear, the leader radiates love;

· The boss says “I”, the leader says “We”;

· The boss shows who is wrong, the leader shows what is wrong;

· The boss knows how it is done, the leader knows how to do it;

· The boss demands respect, the leader commands respect…..

· Still to fill up the blank place--- the leader is always with you, always and all ways::::