IPS Manoj Kumar: The Mamata government held talks with the junior doctors on strike and agreed to three of their five demands and removed the Director of Medical Education and the Director of Health Services. Along with this, Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal was also removed on Tuesday and a new IPS officer was given the responsibility. The Mamata government has appointed IPS Manoj Kumar Verma as the new Police Commissioner of Kolkata. IPS Vineet Goyal has been posted as ADG, STF of West Bengal Police, where he was posted before becoming the CP of Kolkata.
IPS Manoj Kumar is a 1998 batch officer. He was posted as ADG (Law and Order) in West Bengal Police. Prior to this, he was working as the Police Commissioner of Barrackpore and Additional Director in the Security Directorate. Manoj Verma is one of the top senior officers of Bengal Police, who has a lot of experience and expertise working on the front line for many years in the Naxal-affected Jangalmahal area. He was posted as SP in the most affected area and led the joint operation against the Naxalites when many districts of the state were under the influence of Naxalites.
Apart from this, IPS Javed Shamim has returned to his previous post as ADG Law and Order of Bengal Police. IPS Deepak Sarkar has been appointed as the new DCP (North) in Kolkata Police. He was DC East in Siliguri Police Commissionerate.
IPS Manoj Kumar: CM Mamata gave this assurance
Let us tell you that after meeting the doctors, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said that the Deputy Commissioner (North) of Kolkata Police will also be removed, against whom the victim’s family had accused of bribery. Seeing the demand of the junior doctors, Kolkata Police Commissioner Vinit Kumar Goyal said in the meeting that he is ready to resign. At 4 pm, Vinit will hand over the responsibility to the new CP.
‘No action will be taken against doctors’
The Chief Minister said the meeting was ‘positive’ and the government has accepted three of the five demands put forth by the doctors and has appealed to the junior doctors to return to work. He said, “I have appealed to the agitating doctors to return to work as three of their five demands have been accepted… No punitive action will be taken against the protesting doctors.”
At the same time, Mamata government has formed a committee under the leadership of the Chief Secretary to hear all the cases related to the infrastructure of the health sector and said that we have also decided to remove the Deputy Commissioner (North). The minutes of the meeting were signed by CM-42 junior doctors and CS signed on our behalf. I want to congratulate them for coming to the meeting. They had put forward their five-point demands, out of which the government has accepted three demands.
Earlier, Mamata Banerjee had met junior doctors protesting against the Kolkata incident on Monday. This meeting ended after 9 pm, after which the Chief Minister appealed to the doctors to end the strike and return to work as soon as possible. Let us tell you that before this, two meetings could not take place despite being scheduled.
