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father from the hospital returned to Mysore along with my
younger brother who joined the college and began to study the
engineering subjects. This was the qualification which helped
him to enter service in Madras in the office of Chief Engineer
Civil first as Work Assistant and then he rose from the post of
junior engineer to sub divisional engineer. I am proud to say I
could see my youngest brother though not a gradate rise to the
position of group B officer in BSNL mainly due to my
protective cover extended to him from the beginning till his

retirement.

After a year or so my another brother who completed M.Sc in
Chemistry joined me in my house and started working in
CFTRI It was this brother whose thread ceremony was
organized by me with my mother, sick father and younger
brother besides elder sister and uncle who specially travelled
up to Mysore for performing the rituals.

Earlier on the very first day in office I faced an interesting
issue, that was , selection of a Public Relations Inspector who
was then called Town Inspector. I devised a practical question
bringing to the fore investigation skills of the candidate wishing
to be selected for the post. Of the 6 candidates one Mr.Subba
narasimha Shastri’s performance was up to the mark and I
asked my head clerk to notify the result in the afternoon itself.
The successful candidate wanting to thank me for selecting him
attempted to come up to the first floor and see me for the
purpose. When I came to know the reason for Mr.Shastri’s visit
to my room I asked the Group D official to send him back as I
thought there was no element of favours shown to that
employee and there was no need for further ado.

The foregoing incident served to project me as a disinterested
and impartial officer .But in due course of time this particular
official did show tremendous enterprise in performing his
duties effectively and gradually by dint of his good qualities got

attached to me very much. Whenever I used to leave on
inspection tour by train he would meet me at the station and see

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