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"What
Went Wrong", finds Kiran Bedi
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Life Stories documented by Kiran Bedi sold out the first day of its release …… Media
Reports
The fortnightly column written by Kiran Bedi in a daily, gets published as a book "What Went
Wrong?". The Book published by UBS Publishers Distributors Ltd., New Delhi was released by the
grandson of Mahatma Gandhi in a function organized on 6th July 2001. This book has 36 stories of people
who open their heart in order to save the next victim. The book is a bestseller and has had a reprint in
the first week of its release.
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Government@net
 "Our latest book Government@net was released on 5th
June, 2001 by the Minister of Information & Technology, Government of India, Shri Pramod Mahajan. The
book is the blueprint for ushering in a developed India. It provides a framework – political,
sociological, technological and financial – to enable people, politicians, administrators and private
enterprise to secure an unprecedented developmental impetus. For the people, the book should be the best
way to understand not only the basic features of Internet-enabled technological possibilities but also
their application in daily life."
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DELHI THIS FORTNIGHT
| APRIL FIRST HALF - 2001 - 27 |
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY. VOL 2 NO.3 |
Where snobbery goes
hand in hand with greenery
 I
started to love this city when I first visited it as a teenager to play my tennis matches at the Delhi
Gymkhana, which is bang opposite the former Prime2 Minister’s House. I fell in love with the
greenery of Lutyen’s Delhi and I wished I could live and work here. And lo and behold my first
posting was to exactly the same place i.e. the sub-division of Chanakyapuri. Since tennis matches took
me all over the country I was in a position to compare the city with the other metros. Delhi was to be
the city of my future. Inspite of belonging to Punjab, I did not get my home state instead I got Delhi
and other Union territories, a matter of total destiny.
Delhi is a city where political games happen. Having been a
Political Science student, I love news and its analysis and Delhi is full of news as it happens. Delhi
is also a very snobbish city where everyone drops names and all files and only at Minister’s
desks. Delhi is also a melting pot for the various cultures of the country but the predominant culture
here is Punjabi. It is a loud, angry and impolite city, which loves to show-off. Hence it is quite
unlike the comparatively homogeneous culture found in other metros.
For me Delhi was the right place to start my career in. By destiny
having become the first woman in the Indian Police Service, there could not have been a more
appropriate city to begin from. I know the city by heart, particularly after my assignment in the
traffic department. It is an amazing mixture of VIPs and slum dwellers. Interestingly enough, I have
more friends among the latter. To me they are the ones who need me and my work more. Working for the
marginalized sections is already my present and I will continue to work for them in the future as
well.
KIRAN BEDI
(Joint
Commissioner of Police, Delhi) |
"An article appearing in a leading Japanese Daily dated May 8, 2001."
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ASIAN AGE
3 MAY 2001
WINNER ALL THE WAY : Magsaysay
Award-winning police officer Kiran Bedi holds a Budha statue at Osho World in New Delhi on Wednesday
to mark Budha Week.
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Delhi police adopts modern
managements for HR
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May 2001 Business Standard
 What have
instructors of Delhi Police got to do with learning modern management and communication skills? In a
strictly regimented force, they simply have to bark orders and make liberal use the handy
“danda” and expletives as the unfailing teaching aids. Right?
Wrong, says the indefatigable Kiran
Bedi, additional director general (Training) of Delhi Police.
In
a novel experiment called ‘Train the trainers’, Delhi police has engaged a private Human
Resource consultant to train their instructors in the softer skills of communication and attitudinal
training in a bid to make them more effective.
“Discipline
is not just physical. It has to be an inherent concept among the trainees. Instead of the traditional
system of the trainers teaching their interns, we are trying to inculcate a spirit of teamwork and the
results have already showing,” Bedi told Business Standard at the Police Training School at Jharoda
Kalan in the South-West corner of the city state.
“The discussion mode is better than lecturing mode as it is two way learning
process. The trainees get to participate in their learning process and both the sides can enrich
themselves from each others’ experiences as
what they learn in nothing new but a reinforcement of the common knowledge on
policing,” she says.
Interestingly, even the outdoor trainers like drill instructors have also benefited from the
programme, run by NIS Sparta, a division of NIIT Ltd.
“Earlier we only used to look at the boots of our trainees and bark orders. But
now we have realized the importance of eye-contact and become effective communicators who are more willing
to give a sympathetic ear to those under us,” one of the drill instructors, who has undergone the
programme, says.
Rajiv Chandra, the group Consultant from NIS Sparta, who has been associated with the
project since its inception, says initially, it is very difficult to break the ice with the cops with
their hardened attitudes which come from years of experience.
"But surprisingly, after a few sessions, they realize they become more
effective with planned presentations using modern communication aids and discussing things with the class.
Then they open up completely and are quite willing to learn new ways to do what they have been doing for
years,” Chandra says.
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 16 going on 17 CELEB TALK
"A BIMONTHLY FEATURE OF THE TIMES OF INDIA"
26th April 2001
I was a National junior Tennis champion at the age
16. When I was in my graduation second year. I was a very keen NCC cadet leading the college parades. I
was also the best athlete of my college and was representing my college declamation and debates in
inter-college competitions. Though I was in English (Hons) student, I enjoyed studying political science
which was also one of my favorite at that time. I was a very focused girl concentrating mainly towards the
goal of my career which at that time was the government. Listening to the BBC radio daily, was a must for
me. During those days, the black & white TV had just come in. I used to read newspapers and translate
some selected editorial to increase my knowledge of language and otherwise. I used to travel around the
country in the third class compartment for playing tennis tournaments. I used to travel a lot in buses as
I had to go to different colleges for declamation. I used to cycle at least 25 kms daily up and down from
my home to school. I was a disciplined and obedient girl who had a lot of friends and I loved my parents
the most. No one mattered to me to more then them. There happiness was my happiness. I was very happy and
healthy girl who had a vision and mindset to achieve.
I am a product of my foundation, which has built over
as a teenager. My attitude to work and loving was formed then and has stood by me in good stead now. I am
a living example of what I grew up for. I was conscious of forming habits as a teenager and now when I am
52 years of age, habits and forming me. I am happy with myself and
grateful for my past.
KIRAN BEDI
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| THE INDIAN EXPRESS, Thursday, November 29, 2001 Cops swear by silence, keep
shut for 10 days
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 INLOUD, cacophonic Delhi, 1,265 people
remained silent for 10 days. And they were police personnel who
volunteered to remain silent and meditate.
As they broke their silence today,
they spoke of peace, humanity and integrity. Topics that seem
unfamiliar especially when spoken of by beat policemen who are generally associated with rude behaviour and a
callous attitude. But this is the face of the new policeman,
Joint Commissioner of Police (Training) Kiran Bedi explains while talking about the 17th Vipassana
course at the Police Training College which was undertaken by constable recruits who will start walking their
beats six months from now.
Harinder Singh Bisht from Platoon 42
believes that Vipassana is all about knowing one’s inner self. “Only
when we know our real self, will we be able to be able to give justice to people,” he says, his voice
hoarse and cracking.
“It’s all about
perseverance, will power and self-confidence. About learning
never to lie, hurt anyone with our words or be dishonest,” says Usha from Platoon 2.
Kalua Ram is from Rajasthan who has
been training to be a constable. He hadn’t heard of
Vipassana till he entered PTC. “At first I thought it would
be a nice place to relax after undergoing the daily physical training session.
When I realized I would have to be quite for 10 days, I wondered what I had got myself into. But now, I am glad because it has changed me. Now, when I start working, I know that I will not feel anger,” he says. As the constable rise from the blue cushions they
have made for themsleves and head for some lunch and rest before another session of meditation. JCP Bedi talks
of thechanges she believes will take place in the force.
The officials who are taking this course are the real footsoldiers who come in the contact with people
everyday," says adding, If everystation house officer takes the Vipassana training course before taking
on the post of the SHO, I can assure you that corruption will come down by 75 per cent."
Even as Dr. Bedi calls this Vipassana course as the biggest in the world and one which is "creating
history," she also talks of "working towards sensitising police officials in totality."
She tries to assure Delhiites and says,"This is our way of telling the general public that all is not
lost and that we are restoring honesty, sanity, humanity and integrity into the force. this is a programme of
restoration."
Dr Bedi says that excluding the present batch, to date 3,200 police officials have undertaken the course,
adding, "officials have told me that their colleagues after undergoing the course have changed totally
and never get angry and keep telling others not to lose their temper."
She also talks of a police official who "now knows not just shooting a gun, but wehn not to shoot a gun.
Of arresting people, not because a VIP asked him to do so or because the man didn't give him money, but
because he was in the wrong."
Outside the tent, specially erected to house the batch of Vipassana students, there is a queue as ome recruits
buy books on meditation. Is this just a one-off excerise or will the students continue this throughout their
lives?
JCP Bedi answers: "We have planted the seed and it has to be nurtured. We will tell them how to continue
with Vipassana even after they start working,: adding, "Besides, everytime you come across a smiling
policeman, you know he has done Vipassana. |
1,265 police
personnel
volunteered to
remain silent, and meditate at the 17th Vipassana Course. |
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| THE HINDU,Sunday, July 22, 2001.
She has a knack of making things stand out. And so when super cop Kiran Bedi
released her book What Went Wrong, at a function at the Delhi Police Public School, it was inevitable that one
would catch a glimpse of some big names. The book, according to Bedi, was written after she started her column
in a national daily writing about the the lives of the many prisoners she had come across in her career. Most
of them were ordinary people whose lives went drastically wrong due to drug, greed or just a simple desire to
get even Bedi was known to talk to many prisoners and personally counsel them. She was also responsible for
winds of change that finally swept through in attitudes towards prisoners. The book is a compilation of many
such cases that Bedi had meticulously recorded and analysed. Each one deals with a specific case, it's
repercussions and how the person is affected has been helped. According to Bedi, "The mission of the book
is to save the next victim."
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