Harley Davidson for Gujarat Police?

Gujarat Police Gets Harley-Davidsons.Harley-Davidson bikes are used by police departments across the globe, with India being the latest name to add its name to the list. Though Gujarat Police is now the first Indian state police to get the Harleys, the exact number of the bikes purchased remains unknown. But a senior retired cop remarked that this may just prove to be a toy because, 1. Engine seizure during hot Indian summers. Bikes with smaller hp survived the tempt exceeding 49 deg in shade for a long time. 2 Poor performance in bylans in old city areas. 3. Running cost is very high since all parts are import items. and not readily available off the shelf. 4. Requires well built and tall persons to man the machine. 5. Suitable only for highway patrols as a chase vehicle 6. Requires high octane fuel not readily found at every petrol pump and then more costly when found. 7 A departmental show off item. 8. CM will find it a good item in the carcade msking a lot of noise

City of Thieves

It’s not for nothing that Delhi is called India’s crime capital. The total value of stolen goods in the city equals its annual budget. While the value of the haul this year is estimated at Rs 36,000 crore, the total budget estimate for the entire state for 2014-15 was Rs 36,766 crore. According to the Delhi Police crime statistics, cash and goods worth Rs 34,594 crore were stolen in 2013 and the figure was Rs 21,211 crore for 2012 More here

Assam & Indian Establishment

as commented by a retired senior cop Years ago during an informal 'samvad' in Guwahati a pesky officer of a para-military force had asked me and others whether the Indian state would have watched helplessly if millions of Pakistani infiltrators had swamped Punjab and Rajasthan to alter the demography of north India.Frankly, I had no answer, nor could any other police officer respond to the searching question

Mumbai police control room on 26/11 confused rambling

Of the stories about the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, one has remained largely untold: the sense of panic in the Mumbai Police Control Room (PCR) when the phones started ringing, a panic so strong it threatened, at least for the first five hours, to overwhelm the police force’s response. Part of that story can now be told. The Indian Express has obtained and authenticated 4,396 phone calls made to PCR running into 89 hours of conversations. These begin with the first one from a taxi driver outside Cafe Leopold close to 10 pm on November 26 until 11.42 pm on November 28, when a caller from Punjab asks if his relative’s name is on the morgue list More here

ISIS & Bangalore

According to a report revealed by Channel 4, the most influential twitter account of the Iraqi militant group Islamic State (IS), which has taken 39 Indian workers as hostage, has been found to be operated by an Indian executive working out of Bangalore More Here

Uber rape

some questions

1. why cant our judiciary judge cases in time bound manner. this person had 8 cases pending against him
2. despite being a habitual offender he was repeatedly given bail by court. Should not courts introspect?
3. when cases were registered against him in delhi or haryana, did local police bother to check up with their counterparts in UP about his criminal history?
4. the private party was submitted a fraud police character verification certificate. is there a standard format for same? is there any way any private party can look into a database and check veracity of such certificates? NO

Vada Pav allowance

The court was horrified when told that policemen, from constables to inspectors, are given Rs750 as dietary allowance per month, “which works out to Rs20 a day“, and Rs250pm as incentive allowance to keep fit, “which works out Rs8 a day“.Nowadays, you don't get vada pav also with it, remarked Justice Kanade. The judges referred to a recent incident where a constable was killed while trying to apprehend a thief, and remarked that he did not even have a lathi. “If you don't give constables proper weapons, how you expect them to handle such situations?'' asked Justice Kanade.

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Operation Smile

A laudable initiative of Ghaziabad police to track missing children & unite them with their families

Soti Ganj - Meerut

Hub of vehicle thefts all over NCR region

Look at some news items

NCRB also reports same, Rooorkee police surrounded by locals, Haaji Galla is one notorious character , one more news here, creating ruckus when police goes there is common method, and how politicians are connected,

CCTNS

Visits to several police stations revealed that the computers were still to be unpacked. 

Sources further said instructions have been given to the station house officers (SHOs) not to use these computers until the CCTNS project completely takes off. 

“On an average, 10 computers were allotted to each police station. But for last one year, these systems have become a burden on us and they are occupying space. No one knows to operate them. Some of the gadgets must have been damaged also in the absence of proper maintenance,” the Assistant Commissioner of Police of New Delhi district said.

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Nine Peelian Principles of Policing

To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
- To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
- To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
- To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
- To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
- To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
- To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
- To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

Student Police Cadet

Modelled along NCC, right now Gujarat, Karnataka & Kerala have this scheme

Gujarat police has a neatly maintained website as well

Dawood, Mumbai Police , Doval & Chota Rajan

this wikileaks cable of US embassy shows how deep inroads Dawood has inside indian establishment.
Mumbai Police under AN Roy actually scuttled efforts to reach dawood Ibrahim by ex IB chief & Current NSA

In the days following the arrest Mumbai Police Commissioner A.N. Roy fired senior police inspector Aslam Momin. Roy said wiretapping had revealed that Momin had links with Ibrahim and Ibrahim's two brothers. The media immediately speculated that Ibrahim had used Momin to tip off the Mumbai police to arrest gangster Malhotra in Delhi, thus foiling the IS/Malhotra plot against him, Ibrahim. One paper quoted unnamed IS officials as saying the service was irate that the Delhi incident became public. Suspecting that Momin may have been the leak, the IS gave the Mumbai police evidence documenting Momin's underworld connections. Police officials did not comment on the rumors. (Note: Momin was a so-called "encounter specialist," a euphemism for a police hit man who carries out extra-judicial killings of highly sought after underworld figures. There is no legal basis for such killings, which are executed under the guise of a shootout where the involved police officers claim they act in self-defense. The publicly acknowledged link between a police hit man and Ibrahim highlighted the well-known interaction between police and the underworld. Human rights groups have long argued that police hit men often have close ties with the underworld figures they are supposed to target. The hit men spare their intended victims in return for bribes, it is argued, or they take bribes from one gang to knock off rivals from another gang. Read Sukethu Mehta's book "Maximum City" for more details on "encounters," Dawood, the police, and the Mumbai underworld.

Small town , big people

This gentleman has been doing good work for policing

To Jawans

A police official addressed his jawans thus

1. Have your martyrs in heart when you go out. You have a legacy to protect and to take forward - defending people.

2. You are the one who make Ambala different from Tikrit, Dafur. Here, you keep criminals on the run. There criminals run the show.

3. Its cool if we are not very rich. Warriors carry a sword of iron, not gold.

4. Your children learn from what you do, not what you say. Kings could not pass on kingdoms to their unworthy children. Give them good values by being a good role model yourself.

6. Under attack fight back. God will have mercy on your enemies. You need not.

7. If anything hassles you, drop me a message. I am a proud commander. You are a great force. I won't disappoint.

8. You serve a large number of people. They will of all sorts. Stay cool. Have patience.

9. You are far too many, thousands. Criminals who can stand you for more than an hour is not even in hundreds. Relax! Victory is ours. Always.

10. For doing good, helping people, you are as good as the police commissioner. For the converse, being a police commissioner is not enough.

Who killed Gandhis?

A blog entry purpotedly by an ex inelliegence official peddles some conspiracy theories

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Trrafic drive against VIPs

Ludhiana police trying to reclaim space for rule of law which has been steadily lost over the years to "VIP" culture

Good strategy is to take media & NGOs along
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Who Stole my buffallo?

Have a look at this video...
innovative
what is police supposed to do in such cases?

Healthy Police

1. Should not senior leadership try to improve working conditions?
2. How about periodic medical fitness tests?
3. If people are being promoted at advanced age of 50-55 years & are supposed to do office job only what is the point of making them go through all the physical rigour?
4. Are these 2 months of training being utilised to give them inputs relevant to their job or just for making them run like old school method


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The man who is feared most in Pakistan

Look at the clarity of thought,
Amazing

Border management is a grave problem area. The management of Indian borders, both in the north and even the coastal borders, deserves more attention. It's being given attention but we need more vigil. India has more than 15,000 km of land border and some 7,500 km of coastal border. Remember, if the border with Pakistan was secure there would not have been any insurgency in Punjab. The Kashmir problem would have been much less if the huge amounts of arms and ammunition would not have come in via the border. We know for sure that 54,000 AK series rifles have been seized so we know that most of these arms come in via the Indo-Pak border. More than 1,000 kg of RDX seized by India means that more than 100 truckloads of goods have come in without detection.
Imagine, if these arms and RDX have come in, then how many people have infiltrated through Pakistan carrying this stuff? More than 15,000 people have gone to Pakistan for training and returned with arms.

More here , here , & how he was denied full tenure as IB chief by MK Narayanan

Equitation

Want to learn equitation?
You can learn it from here & here by National Police Academy

Do not mistreat your orderly

Gen. Patton's life should be a lesson to us in man management. He
lost higher opportunities because of one small detail.
During the end part of war, he slapped his batman (orderly). The
batman filed a complaint against Patton for assault. Patton faced a
court marshal and was reprimanded. This negative remark led him to
seek his relief from army, and he retired into a quiet sunset.
Eisenhover would not have been the election candidate for the post
of President of USA. The original choice for the job was Patton. A
slap undid him

Manipur Police

results for 2009!!!! recruitment of ASI are yet to be declared

Routine Chapter Proceedings Illegal: Mumbai High court

The court was informed that while in jail, the accused was served with notice stating that after he is released on bail, the possibility of him trying to defame his wife and step-daughter cannot be ruled out and therefore he has been directed to execute a bond of Rs. 10,000 for maintaining peace and to also furnish one or two sureties in the like amount.
Justice Jadhav was irked to know from the assistant public prosecutor Dinesh Adsule and the investigating officer of the case that this is the routine course adopted by the police in certain cases, and therefore directed the practice to be discontinued.

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Naxals & Elephant Poaching in orissa

According to Behera, a DGP-rank officer, tusker (and tiger) poaching in the state is getting more widespread and part of a larger network of organized crime operating and the national and international levels. "Of the 18 districts in Odisha where elephant poaching exists and the 19 districts affected by Left-wing militancy, 13 are common. Since poachers would ordinarily not operate freely in forests where armed militants hold sway, links between the two are likely," he says.

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Drug offence

A senior police official recounted.

I attended an international conference in Mongolia. When a Sri Lankan officer made a presentation on drugs, one of the host country officers asked how long it took in Sri Lanka to sentence a drug offender. The Sri Lankan delegate answered rather proudly that it was done quickly - in less than four months. All Mongolian delegates burst out laughing! Apparently in Mongolia it took only a day or two. It is then that one of the officers in our group hissed loudly, "Khabardar! Koi bhi nahin bolega ki India mein kitnae saal lagtae hain!"Hindi can be used as a secret language too.

Haryana CID

A fabled department that has as its bounty a central government. In 1991, Congress had withdrawn support to Chandra Shekhar as it suspected couple of Haryana CID plainclothesmen of snooping its leader.

Drones

The Aircraft Act 1034(XXII of 1934) defines the term AIRCRAFT in sub clause(1) of its Section -2 as under-

'' AIRCRAFT means any machine which can derive support in the atmosphere from reactions of the air( other than the reactions of the air against earth's surface) and includes ballons, whether fixed or free, airships,kites, gliders and flying machines.''

Section- 11 of this Act provides for penalty (up two two years imprisonment or fine upto Rs ten lacs or both) for unregulated flying of an object which may pose threat/ danger to the safety of life or property.

Thus prima facie the operation of an UAV without following the provisions of the Aircraft Act and the Rules framed thereunder, is an offence. No regulations have been made by the Central Govt so far. Therefore, this is an area where the government should act fast to put in place rules/regulations to regulate the subject in most unambiguous terms.

Rot in IB

Is it right to say under UPA government IB did not focus on Islamic terrorism?

Police reform

Separation of L&O and investigation should be done at PS level or police force should be entirely divided into two parts?

Father of a rape victim kills rapist

News like this show how much criminal justice system of India has failed its people

A new day for Mahrashtra Police?

Two developments have specifically hurt the Mumbai police the most. The self-aggrandisement of the Home Department at the cost of professional police leaders has been colossal. The authority to post even inspectors to various police stations has been usurped by the mandarins in Sachivalaya (State Secretariat), thereby emasculating the Commissioner of Police and destroying the chain of command in a rigid hierarchy that the police is. Worse still is the sale of prized field jobs to the highest bidders. There are incredible tales of venality which would make even the most brazen politician squirm in his seat. Things haven’t changed despite there being many sane and credible voices. Mr. Fadnavis has to restore the primacy of police leadership if it has to deliver. This applies especially to the Mumbai Police Commissioner who should be appointed on merit. In the recent past, some of the appointments to the vital job have resulted in disastrous consequences. The Commissioner’s appointment is fortunately not seniority-driven unlike the DGP’s. So, the Chief Minister has some flexibility in getting to choose the right candidate, even if an officer so anointed is relatively junior to others staking claim to the job solely on the basis of seniority

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Delhi Highcourt: forceful sex is not rape

...the deceased was around 65-70 years, thus beyond the age of menopause. We find force in the contention of the learned counsel for the appellant that even if the sexual intercourse was forceful, it was not forcible,” said the Court in its six-page judgment.

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Police vacancies

With 5.5 lakh posts in police force lying vacant across the country, the Centre has asked all states to fill up the vacancies in a time-bound manner, preferably within a year, as the crime graph is soaring gradually.

In separate letters to chief secretaries and DGPs of all states and union territories, Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami said the number of cognisable IPC crimes in the country has gone up to 26,47,722 in 2013 from 21,21,345 in 2009 and provision of adequate manpower in state police forces is one of the pre-requisites to arrest such a trend.

“In view of the aforesaid, may I request you to initiate a time-bound action plan to fill up the existing vacancies in the state police preferably within a period of one year,” he wrote in the letter.

The highest 1,01,100 posts of police personnel are lying vacant in Uttar Pradesh, followed by 45,191 in Gujarat, 38,725 in West Bengal and 32,247 vacancies in Andhra Pradesh as on January 1, 2013

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here & here
Even Satyamev Jayate has covered this. By some estimates only 0.5% of GDP is spent on police which comes to 3lakh per policeman
But there are some moot questions

1. If you recruit 5 lakh people in a year, do you have enough training infrastrucutre?
2. With advent of technology should linear relationship between crime & policemen continue?
3. when does economy of scale kick in?
4. Are you focussing on recruitment for specialised fields like cyber crime etc or not?
5. Is it correct to copy western countries police population ratio & apply them to india to declare we have shortfall?
6. How about separating L&O and investigation?
7. How about force deployed in VIP security?
8. Have we paid attention to level at which vacancies are. Constable, HC, SI or Inspector?

Trivia

PM Indira Gandhi saw Kiran Bedi leading parade of 26 Jan in 1975.
She invited her for breakfast.

When she went to ask for permission to her senior he is reported to have said "can i deny you that?"

It is said invitation from up and seniors are always order & cant be denied

IB presented a paper on spread of Islamic fundamentalism from Indonesia to Iran in 1966!!! but audience (IGs of CID) were not interested

Khaki & Tech

Indian paramilitary forces adopted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, as part of defence operations in July 2012, following a demonstration by a start-up founded by some IIT Bombay graduates to the National Security Guard (NSG), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Delhi Police, Maharashtra Police and the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force.


That is how the firm, idea-Forge, made Uttar Pradesh Special Task Forces its first client. "Drones can be deployed in the most dangerous and rugged circumstances and are made just for the forces," said Ankit Mehta, cofounder and CEO of the Navi Mumbai-based firm, whose drones were used in rescue and search operations in the recent Beas River tragedy where 24 B Tech students were drowned, the Saharanpur riots, the Pune landslide and for crowd surveillance at the Jagannath Rath Yatra in Ahmedabad last year.

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IB is a chicken?

Three of the IB’s sins are particularly harmful to the country. First, its operational incompetence has now become legendary. The tragedy in Mumbai is only the most spectacular in a long list of failures. Many IB personnel have no aptitude for the job and some have no interest in what they do. Quite a few IPS officers apply for a deputation to the IB simply to get away from tough areas such as Nagaland and Kashmir. Upper echelons of the organization often conduct haphazard studies into security threats while subsidiary units are left to pursue their own agendas. The organization is poorly managed, with fragmentation and chaos being order of the day.
Second, the main task of the IB seems to be furthering the political interests of its masters instead of bolstering internal security. India has now become familiar with the sorry practice of paid journalism. This phenomenon involves politicians paying journalists for favorable coverage. When the Congress Party was in power, many IB officers were reportedly the conduit for cash to journalists who sang paeans to the government.
Third, discrimination is rife in the IB. It has a culture of wall-to-wall hierarchy that favors sycophants. The personal track records of employees are often inconsequential. What matters is whether their superiors like them personally, making the IB an organization tailor-made for fawning courtiers. There is a widespread perception that the IB is not a good place to be if you belong to a lower caste. Harassment is rife, and there is no clear means of recourse to employees who are wronged.


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Perks of Power

A DIG from J&K in thick of a storm
The son of a top Jammu and Kashmir police officer has posted a series of photographs on Instagram that show his father’s apparent abuse of power. The photographs have gone viral on social networking sites, evoking angry reactions.
One of the photographs shows a man — apparently a policeman — sitting near the feet of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Jammu, Shakeel Beig and helping him put on his shoes. The caption with the photograph , posted by Beig’s son, who goes by the name Tonybeig on Instagram, says: “Real king – My Dad!! Last time he put his shoes himself was almost 15 years ago #BossLife #King xx.”

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High price of spare parts & vehicle theft

Its often said that police is left  cleaning mes created by other players in society.
Many places in India are notorious for vehicle theft and than quick dismantling to sell spare parts.
Owner claims insurance & moves ahead with life while auto companies are making a killing by pricing spare parts high, so that there is a market for spare parts supplied by grey market. If this case is with CCI, what if police also becomes a party & present evidence ( if any). Right now this is conjecture , but if there is data to support this hypothesis, it would be helpful

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/auto/news/auto-components/why-carmakers-are-joining-hands-against-cci-charge/articleshow/44913617.cms

Death of a CBI investigator

As opposed to what they show you in bollywood movies, real life of an investigator is quite different & pretty normal.
This news item talks about an ace investigator of CBI who dared to go against media trial & strived to reach till truth.

Food budget for prison inmates

It will be interesting to compare allowances across states & find out what is the amount in different states
But kerala rates seem reasonably high given that economies of scale kick in when food is prepared for such large no of people & as it is prepared by prison inmates only labour is practically free.

Delhi Police goes Tech Savy

Wonderful App of Delhi Police by which some petty corruption which is purely transactional in nature has been controlled.
People can make online complaints about lost mobiles, PAN card, sim and other documents & get a digital certificate which can be used to get these documents issues again from relevant authorities which insist on a police report

Earn while you serve sentence in Jail

Is not it surprising that only conivcted prisoners are allowed to work inside jail

So what do under trials do?  while away time, while 90% of prison population is undertrial

Andhra is a progressive state from police point of view

All the right noises made by Andhra CM Mr Naidu

Model village amongst mines

Idea which I submitted on PM's portal

States are going to get huge money by coal mines auction.Instead of money going into general pool or meet deficit of states it should be directly used for development of villages which are impacted by mining. e.g. there could be 500 villages affected by these mines, if 5000 crore i.e. 10 cr per village can be used to provide basic amenities in this village it would be a win win situation & inch towards model village concept of PM if we dont allot funds collected from mines to development of village, local vilagers will keep on protesting against mine like this.

Smart City

PM and the government has been talking about smart city.
As someone who has lived in small towns, transitional cities & metros both India and abroad to my mind liveable city is first step towards achieving a smart city.

My idea of basic infrastructure intervention which govt should make to nudge city's infra and improve its living conditions are following 15 things of reasonable population say above 2 lakhs

1. A lab to test food products for adulteration (private initiative, govt just to check credentials)
2.at least 5 well developed market places with parking, toilets and open areas ( like chandigarh sector markets, no need of new investments. Improve existing markets by removing encroachments, uniform signing and boards and uniform way of shops)
3. at least 5 towers with 200 flats each - 1 bhk where people in low end labor job live with dignity. these places will not be sold as if sold below price to poor they will either sublet these or sell them. If priced as per their real value poor for whom these are intended will never be able to buy it. Instead they should be given on lease of 3 yrs each. Rent should be used purely for their maintenance and construction of new towers. Initial cost of making 5 towers per 2 lakh population should be borne by government. they should be spread within city instead of being outside from where commuting to workplace is difficult and costly thus deterring labour to shift to these places.
4. an auditorium to hold social functions- estimated cost 10 crore- it should be PPP where govt provides land and pvt party bears cost of construction. In return it can charge market rate to pvt organiser while giving it free or nominal cost for govt mandated functions.
5.A city forest. Preferably in centre of city as this will provide opportunity to improve traffic also. A scheme like pitr parvat where people finance planting and maintenance of tree in memory of their loved ones can take care of running cost. initial expense 10 cr
6.Modern crematorium where electricity and gas can be used to burn Deads. Market rate can be charged for funeral to recover running cost. Initial cost - 10 cr
7. one garden for every 10000 population. this will provide breathing space for birds, old people, women and kids. social function can also be held here. 20 such garden for 2 lakh city would mean investment of 20 crore
8. A stadium with 5000 seating capacity with swimming pool and mats for wrestling must. this would be a pure PPP  project whre pvt party financing it can levy user charges. while talented players will be allowed to practice free when certified by govt. estimated cost on govt 10 crore
9. A city transport system, which will have buses owned by pvt party but whole system regulated by govt. bids would be invited for identified routes and monopoly rights provided. Ads to be used as revenue stream. modern bus stops to be constructed and maintenance to be carried out by pvt party. rates to be decided by govt and a fixed formula used to link it to wages, fuel cost & price of vehicle thus obviating need for frequent agitation to raise fare. Possible cost to government 10 crore
10. A waste disposal plant. A system where a pvt party collects waste and households are charged different rates depending on they give segregated/mixed waste. Waste has to be collected from their house/ they provide themselves. Govt inspectors to fine people who litter and to monitor pvt party performing tasks of collection and disposal of garbage. estimated cost to govt 10 cr
11. Either solar/wind/bio gas based , at least one renewable energy based small power plant for town
12. A water tank or water body ( if not natural create an aritificial),which can serve as source of drinking water, tourism, can store excess rain water. All run off water of city can lead to this water body.
13. At least one hawkers zone for every 40k population, multi level parking in busy markets & a network of bio degradable public toilets. - cost 10 crore
14. Rain basers, a centre of orphans, destitute women. pvt chairty orgnaisations encouraged to open. Govt to just provide fund.
15. piped natural gas in residential area to stop black marketing of cylinders, reduce demand and filling of one cylinder to other