Behind the scenes

It was a typical sunny day and you can see a bunch of policemen here and there all waiting impatiently outside the seminar hall. I walked so fast to my destination so that I will not miss any notable quotes from the guest of the day. But all I can see was a well arranged hall with hundreds of empty chair exceptionally occupied by the two resource persons of the day in the front row with an old lady. I looked upon my watch to check whether I am too early for the seminar. No, am on time, 9.30am

Few days back, I got an opportunity to attend a ‘supposed to be’ one day seminar on “Women safety” in Kochi city actually intended for women. It was just after the well acclaimed two day Bharat Hartal. It may be one of the reasons why there wasn’t any one literally to attend the seminar where the City Commissioner of Police was invited for the inauguration.

Hats off to Kerala police for their tireless job by which they could successfully bring about 60 students both adolescent boys and girls from a nearby school. The way they bought these students reminds me of the wagon tragedy, but here the students seems so happy because they can bunk their tedious class with permission and also might have enjoyed their city trip in the police vehicles. Then some women were forced to attend the seminar without any choice.

You can hear people especially women grudging that they were not informed earlier and in response a policeman replied that they too were not informed earlier ,only just 2 days before. And he explained about the works done behind the scenes; the hall even got fixed the other day night and everything was in a hurry burry, have to arrange a hall, order tea and snacks along with a non -vegetarian lunch and at last you all know we got stuck in between the two day hartal which actually made this horrible.

Hearing this I got confused. Actually who is the trouble maker here? 

But somehow the chairs were seated full after two and a half hour.

The seminar was a failure because it could not reach the target population, women. And those attended were the usual meeting goers. Why it becomes a failure? Because                          the seminar was not an outcome after a proper planning, it is without understanding a link between the needs with the target groups. This is not as part of daily routine of the policemen. So one can only expect this much dedication. They should be first properly trained and guided and make them to internalize these initiatives rather than just organizing a seminar.

Whom to blame? The so called “unexpected hartal” or the police officials who done things without genuinity or the one above these police officials who release funds to conduct mandatory progarmmes with short notice? It’s time to think beyond words.

Hahaha

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