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work first in trickles and in due course greater number and
thus would the agitation peter of. At this time
Sri.Periyanayagam took over as PMG relieving
Sri.M.S.Palrajan who left for Delhi to join the post of
Deputy Director General ,PLI.

Movie with D.D.G Vigilance:

On one of these days when I was busy negotiating with the

Unions I found Col.Sri.Shivnath, Deputy Director General
on his visit to the Circle. I found some element of secrecy in
what could have been a routine matter. I was told by my
PMG that I would drop whatever business I was busy with
and keep company with the DDG and act according to his
requirements. I could not believe myself when Col.Shivnath
proposed that two of us, himself and me, would watch a
movie and relax for a few hours. I overcame my disbelief
and got with the help of my personal staff two tickets for a
matinee show in the nearby Zammarud theatre .The DDG in
the middle of the picture brought up the topic of chronic
theft and pilferage of valuable contents of insured parcels
passing through Hyderabad. He very politely asked me if I
was aware of the magnitude of the problem which was
bringing bad name to the service. I narrated to him the steps
taken by me thus far .A pattern emerged wherby same set of
crew of mail motor service schedules would be on duty on
days when abstractions were reported and with a view to
pinpoint the particular bad elements the Assistant
superintendent posted on this duty was waiting for a
suitable opportunity to nab the elements. I told Col.Shivnath
that it was a matter of few more weeks when we would be
exposing the shoddy affair.

So as expected my ASRM, Mr.Waghmare on one Saturday
at 7 am called me and said he suspected the particular
schedule which was running late by 15 minutes as of then at
Nampalli station point. He assured to follow the schedule till

the end and report if anything in the meanwhile cropped up.
As expected when among the various mail and parcel bags

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