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| Verification drive gets a tepid response |
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Dwaipayan Ghosh / Times of India / Jun 19 2008 |
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| Even as the servant verification drive launched by Delhi Police enters its second month, senior officials worry that the drive may not be able to sustain itself due to the poor response from employers across the city. According to police records, of the 4 lakh households surveyed so far, almost 60,000 homes have employed domestic help. Of these, 34,000 households are yet to provide basic information about the help. |
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| Crime rates involving domestic help have witnessed a significant jump this year. In 2007, 17 cases involving domestic help were reported. These included robbery and murder. As of June this year, 16 such cases have already been reported. It is worrying that not more than eight of these cases have been solved so far. |
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| "Families in Delhi mostly employ young boys and girls as domestic help. They fear that if they reveal their addresses, they may face charges of forced child labour. Hence, even after repeated requests to submit details online, results have not been encouraging," said a senior police officer. |
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| Delhi police has set up new camps in several districts in order to complete the verification process."We will not stop till we verify all domestic help. Our beat constables are going from house to house and wherever the employees cannot submit photographs of their help, we are arranging for pictures to be taken," said ACP Rajan Bhagat, PRO, Delhi police. |
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| According to senior officials, all the filled up forms are being forwarded to the district DCP office. "We will then forward it to the various SSPs of the districts from where the help come from. "About 15 to 20 applications are handled at a time so it is a slow process," added a senior official. In fact, according to last year's records, of the 20,744 forms filled, only 2,100 could be verified by other states. |
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| Officers added that the bulk of the verification will be completed in the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal."We cannot verify the antecedents of people hailing from other countries like Bangladesh or Nepal. Hence, we advise employers not to employ help from there," said a senior official. |
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