Expressing his views on the need to involve the general public in policing, Prateep V. Phillip, additional director general of police, who founded ‘Friends of Police’, said anyone who is not involved in a civil or a criminal case should be a friend of the police and share the power and responsibility.
“One major problem is that human resources are not adequately utilised. When this happens, many things can be solved,” he said, speaking at the presentation of the Pemanda Monappa Scholarship for study at University of Cambridge, at British Council on Monday.
Any new innovation needs to be useful, cost-effective, simple and easily understood. Only then it would become successful, he added.
Speaking at the event, Bharat Joshi, British deputy high commissioner, said it is important that scholarships are used to train people abroad so they can bring quantum change to their home countries.
The Chevening Scholarship offered by the United Kingdom was one such scholarship, and the Pemanda Monappa Trust Scholarship was also formed on similar lines, he said.
Speaking of the bond between India and the U.K. in the field of education, N. Ravi, editor-in-chief, The Hindu , said U.K. was one of the most sought-after destinations for Indian students, second only to the United States.
Cambridge, too, has a long and fruitful association with India, starting with mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, he said, pointing out that three of the Nobel Prize winners from India — Amartya Sen, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and V. Ramakrishnan — all enjoyed a close association with the university.
This year, Meyyappan Nagappan was awarded the Pemanda Monappa Scholarship to study law at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is the fifth person to receive the award, which was instituted in 2009 by P.M. Belliappa, in honour of his father, to enable students from India to study in Cambridge.
Ranjini Manian, founder and CEO of Global Adjustments, and Mei Kwei Barker, director of British Council for south India, and Mr. Belliappa were also present at the event.
