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reward became my friend philosopher and guide in non official
matters.H e took very kindly to my two young children and became
a regular visitor to my residence.I felt a person like Sampath can
not retire as a non executive after nearly four decades of service in
the department.So I suggested to my PMG that we make him an
officer in the department at least in the last one or two months of
his service.My PMG also saw merit in the propsal and found a
way out to circumvent his seniors and made him eligible for
posting as Superintendent TP Division in the RMS.This was but a

small reward for the officer who served the department so loyally
and drew affection of all his seniors like PMGs who were able to
spot the talent he possessed.

My children loked forward to seeing him on Sundays and we used
to see Tamil cinemas in his company.He volunteered to escort my
eight year old daughter to the various Carnatic Music competitions
held by the department in Tirupathi,Kurnool.and other places in
Hyderabad and safely brought her after the competitions.He
became so indispensable that even the task of packing and
transporting my household goods and car by train when I had to
move on transfer to Delhi was taken over by him voluntarily.

R.C.Waghmare

At this point of time Hyderabad sorting office was becoming
cynosure of criticism more or less across the country.Almost
regularly insured articles alleged to contain silver or gold
jewellery were tampered with and contents abducted causing
huge embarrassment to the department.The laxity in checking
the condition of parcels at every stage of their handling and
limited time available for carrying out check encouraged free
passage of parcels to their destination.Taking advantage of this
situation maliciously inclined staff tampered the parcels of
potential costly contents and replaced the contents with stones or
rubbish weight for weight.So at the offices of delivery
unsuspectingly the tampered parcels would find their way to the
hands of the public who on noticing the fraud would prefer

complaint to the offices concerned.Invariably after protracted
time either the parties would be told there was no foul play at the

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