Editorial
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| Forget you not, this is our policy! |
Of late, I have
been receiving very encouraging response from LIC pensioners belonging to various
parts of the country. They have really
applauded the idea of having an independent online diary covering varying
views.
For an year
now, I am covering news dear to the pensioners.
Pensioners want it straight from the horse mouth. They want it fast. They want it with all vivid details. And towards this end, I am making serious and
sincere efforts. Slowly but surely we
are achieving success in this matter.
You have gone
through various pages of this Diary. And
while doing so, you must be convinced that we are covering news in an impartial
way. I am basically a journalist. I have interviewed prominent management experts
in the country. I have interviewed Prof.
Ishwar Dayal. I have interviewed Shri
Diwan when he was Chairman, LIC of India.
In his own handwriting he used to write letters to me in Inland letter
cards. It was an unusual thing for a LIC
Chairman to do.
Then I
interviewed Managing Directors, Directors, Zonal Managers, great Union leaders
like Shri NM Sundaram and Shri AV Nachane.
I had only one passion while doing so.
It was that I should do my job of bringing together the management and
the employees together for bringing about ‘change’ in LIC.
There was a
Chief (Personnel) Shri NN Joshi who told me once, rather complained to me that
Shri N.M. Sundaram was not talking to him.
And he wanted that I should meet Shri Sundaram and find out the reason
for it. I went to Chennai and stayed
there for a couple of days sleeping on a sofa, braving sultry weather and mosquitoes of the
T-Nagar Guest House. Finally I sent a
report to Shri Joshi. Whether or not
such liaison work had any effect at all, the fact remained that I received such
assignments those days. While I met and
worked with great management experts and leaders, I had occasion to ignore one
Shri MS Natarajan in the far south who boasted, there were a few letters after
his name. Shri Diwan advised me to
ignore such insignificant persons and go ahead and added that he himself had
faced such problems during his service career in the Corporation.
Having retired
from active service, I am continuing my job of doing something useful to my
fellow pensioners. I do belong to one
pensioners association. But I believe,
basically I am a journalist and I am duty-bound to cover all views of all
persons irrespective of the unions to which they might belong for the time
being.
I assure you,
this is my policy.
