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vegetables and other sundry items besides taking my daughter
on his bicycle on ride around the township. This
Ramachandran showed interest in learning English and
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arithmetic and wanted to reappear in 10 standard public
examination. Accordingly he appeared and passed in the
examination. At the same time the Centre needed some Group
D attenders to work as helpers in the
Laboratories.Ramachandran was eager to get employment in
the Centre as it was a central government job with attractive

salaries and pensionary benefits.Besides, the Centre followed
for every grade periodic review for promoting deserving
workers to higher grades. For, the Centre needed candidates
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with 8 class qualification and the selection committee found
Ramachandran fit and he was given appointment as a Group D
in a Laboratory. I had satisfaction of appointing a poor and
deserving candidate in a government job.

Another qualified person I helped get a job in Kalpakkam was
one Mr.Ranganathan younger brother of my co-brother whose
father wrote to me a touching letter stating the difficulties of
his youngest son , who though a Philosophy post graduate,
remained jobless. I got this Ranganathan to apply to the
Department of Atomic Energy in response to a news paper
advertisement and by constant monitoring with the Director
Purchase and Stores got Ranganathan selected for the post of
Purchase Assistant and got him stationed in Kalpakkam.
The one good thing I did was to publish a compendium of order
applicable to all the staff and scientific officers in the matter of
qualifications, service requirements ,special incentives like
house building advance etc so that all could benefit by these
orders. By and large I acquitted myself satisfactorily and by the
time I had completed my tenure in Atomic Energy I was busy
searching for vacancies where I would be fitted in my parent
department.

My marathon tour of the South by car:

With 6 months to go for completion of my tenure my search
for a match for my younger sister was complete and I with

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