Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs under the chairmanship of Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Anand Sharma, has expressed its agony over some states which including Odisha, for neither enacting the Model Police Act 2006 nor amending the existing Act.
According to the reports, they stated “The Committee is concerned to note that the Model Police Act was forwarded to all the States in 2006 and even after 15 years, so far only 17 States, viz. Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Tripura & Uttarakhand have either enacted the Model Police Act or amended their existing Act. This shows laxity on the part of the remaining States.”
The name of Odisha is not there in the list of 17 states. Moreover, the Committee notes that 12 States/UTs i.e. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Haryana, Jharkhand, Lakshadweep, Odisha, Rajasthan, Puducherry, Ladakh and West Bengal have not furnished any information on
the implementation of the 49 Recommendations of the Mooshahary Committee, despite
advisories/reminders from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
