Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde asked officials to draft a master plan for providing housing to our police personnel. The chief minister held a meeting to take stock of police housing schemes recently. He had stated that cops work in challenging times for people’s safety, and the government must ensure they get affordable houses through MHADA, CIDCO or SRA.

This is a laudable announcement but now that Shinde is, in a manner of speaking, the government himself, it falls upon him to turn the announcement into action. The drafting of this master plan should not remain a plan only. It must actually be drafted carefully, so that there are no loopholes at the inception stage. After that, it must move from the table to the relevant agencies, and solid action on housing must commence.