Bengaluru: IPS Officer Roopa Moudgil, who has beeen transferred as the MD of Handicrafts Emporium has expressed her unhappiness for having been put on an equal footing with IPS officer Hemant Nimbalkar.
“Transferred today as MD, Handicrafts Emporium. My transfer is like putting me on an equal footing with other IPS officer Nimbalkar chargesheeted by CBI & CBI has recommended for Disciplinary action of Major Penalty against him in last December, one year ago, which is not yet done,” she tweeted after her transfer.
Many have questioned the move of the government of posting an IPS officer as head of State Handicrafts Development Corporation, a post that has been declared equivalent to that of Inspector General of Police.
However, the upright officer wrote in another tweet that she will be joining the new post on January 1 as posts do not matter to her.
“I am joining the new post tomorrow as posts don’t matter to me. But what matters is, public interest must be upheld and the corrupt must be punished. If my shift paves the way for action on the corrupt, I welcome it,” reads the tweet.
She further opined that transfers are part of government job and she will continue to do her job in an uncompromising manner.
“Transfers r part of govt job. I’ve been transferred more than double the times than number of years of my career. Whistleblowing&firm action is rift with risks& I know that. I continue to do my job uncompromisingly,this post or that post,doesn’t matter (sic)” he wrote in a tweet.
She also stated that Karnataka pioneers in handicrafts in the country, especially, sandalwood, rosewood, bidriware etc.
“As MD of Handicrafts Emporium, I will be able to give impetus to the work of lakhs together artesans & showcase their work in India & abroad, through our famous “Cauvery Emporium”,” she said.
The Karnataka government, on Thursday shifted out warring IPS officers of the IGP rank – D. Roopa and Hemanth Nimbalkar – who have been involved in a raging controversy over irregularities in the tendering process for the multi-crore ‘Nirbhaya Safe City’ Bengaluru project.
Controversy erupted earlier this month after 1998 batch IPS officer, Hemanth Nimbalkar, the chairperson of the authority vested with the power to invite tenders for the ‘Nirbhaya Safe City’ Bengaluru project, wrote to the Chief Secretary alleging that a woman officer had “impersonated the Home Secretary” to seek classified information from a participating company which was drafting the tender.
The blame game had gone viral on social media and media thereafter for several days, after 2000 batch IPS officer, D. Roopa took to Twitter for her response as well as to post scathing attacks on Nimbalkar.
As per a government notification released on Thursday, Nimbalkar has been transferred as the IGP in the Internal Security Division. The 1998 batch IPS officer was serving as the IGP and Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration), Bengaluru.
Roopa has, meanwhile, been posted as the Managing Director of Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation, a post that was declared equivalent of the IGP cadre from her present post as Secretary, Prisons, Civil Defence and Auxiliary Services, in the Home Department.
With inputs from IANS
