5,000 police constable vacancies to be filled up this year: Home Minister Araga Jnanendra
Bengaluru, Sep 20: Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra on Tuesday informed the Legislative Assembly that there are 9,432 police constable vacancies in the state, and 5,000 among them will be filled up this year.
The Minister was responding to a question on shortage of police constables in the state raised by BJP MLA Preetham Gowda in the Legislative Assembly, during the question hour.
"When our government came to power the police vacancy in the state was about 22,000... at one point in time out of total 1 lakh police there was about 35,000 vacancy, but today the vacancy is only 9,432," Jnanendra said.
Noting that on September 12, 2022 a notification has been issued to select 3,500 constables, he said to select another 1,500 civil constables a notification will be issued in a week's time.
"So 5,000 vacancies will be filled up this year, and there will not be too many vacancies soon. The respite is that in 20 years this is the first time with very less vacancies," he said, adding that all necessary measures will be taken to ensure that there is no hindrance or shortage of police in maintaining law and order.
Intervening, JD(S) MLA H K Kumaraswamy said as per rules there should be 22 constables in every police station, but whenever asked either some of them are on deputation or on the bandobast duty.
".... how to function when such is the situation? The government must ensure that there are adequate number of constables at the station," he said.
Responding to this, the Minister said the civil police are generally not used or deputed for bandobast, but depending on the situation locally they might be used as per necessity.
ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳೆದ 20 ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲೇ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಹುದ್ದೆಗಳು ಖಾಲಿ ಇದ್ದು, ನೇಮಕಾತಿ ಪ್ರಕ್ರಿಯೆ ಜಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ಈ ಕುರಿತು ಸದನದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂದು ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟನೆ ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು.#session@CMofKarnataka pic.twitter.com/yOhv0eQobL
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We received request; will decide soon whether to support TVK: Thirumavalavan
Chennai (PTI): VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan on Thursday said that his party received a request from TVK for support and the high-level committee of his party will decide whether to support the Vijay-led party to form the government.
The TVK won 108 seats in the 234-member Assembly and emerged as the single largest party. Vijay will have to resign from one of the two constituencies he has won.
Though the Congress party, which has five MLAs, has extended support to TVK, the actor-politician-led party was still short of as many seats to touch the magic number of 118, the majority mark in the 234-member House.
"We received the request letter from TVK. We are thankful for that. We have not ignored his (Vijay's) request. We have a procedure. Therefore, our party's high-level committee will decide soon. We are going to discuss the merits and demerits of our position," the VCK leader told reporters here.
With regard to the delay in the governor's call to the TVK, which is the single largest party, to form the government, Thirumavalavan requested the governor to invite Vijay to form the government. "It is a constitutional right and people's verdict," he added.
Asserting that the governor cannot say that Vijay should hold 118 MLAs' support now itself to form the government, he said that after taking over power, Vijay has to prove an absolute majority only on the floor of the Assembly.
