Friday, March 6, 2009

Private Security System and IPL


India is going through an interesting moment.
Recently, The IPL committee commissioner announced the dates and venue for the upcoming cricket matches of IPL. Thoroughly independent private bodies under the headship of BCCI or ICL and now this new IPL arrange cricket in India.
The interesting twist in the tale of cricket is, now the dates of IPL matches are clashing directly with the dates of Indian General Elections.
Today in morning when the current Home Minister of India Mr. P. Chidambaram gave statements about the inability of government to provide security for the proceedings of IPL matches and exhorted the commissioner of IPL Mr. Lalit Modi to change the schedule of IPL and postpone it to re-scheduled after general elections in India, everybody though Lalit Modi will be forced out to agree with the proposal to postpone IPL.
Yet, in the evening, Mr Modi suggested new schedule in which he changed the dates but not the period. That is, now IPL matches will go on simultaneously with elections, although no match will be held in any city on the date of voting in that city.
Still this new schedule does not solve the problem of security as central government and state government have clearly denied to take responsibility of security for IPL matches. The reason being, a big chunk of security services officials will be busy in providing security for various politicians, election workers, officers, electoral booths, etc. As Indian elections will remain under the threat of terrorist attacks and so will be the IPL, government find itself unable to provide security for both of the ventures simultaneously, and that is twist of the tale.

Mr. Modi has accepted that it will be difficult for government to provide desired security, yet he is not ready to change the dates!
So the question is, how will he manage and what is he planning for providing security for the players, grounds, ground workers, match referees, umpires, audience and the cheerleaders?
Now that is a big call specially when just 3 months ago Mumbai faced extremely dangerous terrorist attack, how will he able to provide security to his seven chosen venues of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Chennai all?
How will manage to gain the trust of the players to play?
Well he is trying to manage the task with the help of private security forces.
It is a difficult task. Yet I feel that if it really happens and Mr Modi succeeds in inaugurating and completing the IPL cricket series without the help of Indian central or state government police and security services, than it will be a new era of libertarianism in India, the era of private security services.
After Taj Attack, even Ratan Tata announced that he will be looking forward to create a private security net much better and efficient than what we get right now.
If now Mr. Modi succeeds in finishing the IPL series at the scheduled time in same period when Indians will be voting for the new government, people will start realizing that government security system is not the only way to provide security for the common man, and that will create a platform for a strong, reasonable and practical solution for the monopoly of government in police and security systems.
Mr. Modi is talking with current private security providers in India and he is also planning to engage German and France and other European private security services to help in completing the task.
I know it will be extremely difficult for Modi and whole BCCI and IPL management to complete this task, yet if anyhow they succeeds, it will give a strong reason for Indian libertarians to stage a revolt against monopoly of state in security system and raise the issue of privatization of security forces.

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