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the years preceding that due to dearth of posts promotions were
few and far between.I rose to the occasion and helped to create
adequte number of divisions which were the building block for
creating promotional posts like Directors,PMGs etc.So when
Velankar had to go abroad for 2 weeks tour to UPU he entrusted
me and my Director Planning Sri.S.L.Rajan to prepare and finalise
what was called EFC Memo –short for Expenditure Finance
Committee Memo for submission to the Finance Ministry by the
time he returned to India.Needless to say Mr.Velankar soon after

his return to India took the EFC Memo personally to Secretary,
Finance in the Government and got the concurrence for creation of
the posts required.True to his promise he gave effect to the creation
of the higher promotional posts and elevated the eligible officers
lke S//SRI P.S.Raghavachari,K.R.Murthy,S.L.Rajan and a score of
others.In this background when I accompanied Sri.Velankar on
flight to Madras he turned right to me who was seated beside him
and said “ Srinivasan ,this is your first meal in midair ,,,enjoy
yourself!I don’t think there could be another Velankar who would
treat a junior officer like me as his friend of a long time !He didn’t
forget my own claim for promotion and posted me as the First City
Director by posting me as Director of Postal Services, Coimbatore
in June 1973.

K.R.Murthy:

After my innings with Velankar ended I was mainly used as a
mercenary for hard work .All opportunities to sponsor officers on
foreign assignments including training were available for those
who were familiar with the ropes.I didn’t mind the lost
opportunities and concentrated on how to turn around the
performance of the department.I was the sole Director in the entire
department who was entrusted with mail operations in the entire
circle of Andhra Pradesh unlike bifurcation of the RMS divisions
into Regions for entrustment to the different regional
directors.While in Hyderabad I brought out how mail statistics
could be better analysed and the efficiency of the different RMS
units could be numerically evaluated.This was the first time such a

study was organized in the department.My initiative paid off and
Sri.K.R.Murthy Secretary Posts saw merit in my project and gave

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