The devil is playing havoc, since my mind has nothing to
concentrate upon. So random thoughts, some of which have arisen over the last
fifty years when I spent my life in the organization, I mean LIC, occupies
the mind mostly. How I wish someone like Dr.Raghuram Rajan should have headed
this milching cow of GOI. In the earlier days I recall Some bureaucrats like BHIDE, PANDE, KAUL occupied the top post to
make LIC an extended dept of the Govt. Then came persons from the Corporation
itself but were found, with the exception of Shri J.R. Joshi, to continue dancing
to the tunes of the finance ministry and
thereby bringing in no radical change
but bent backwards to the whims and fancies of the Govt. T.A.Pai was extremely
a different person, having political ambitions and played some populist cards.
Came the direct
recruits.The best green graduates of
course went to occupy the bureaucracy. Better ones came to public undertakings
including LIC.. The freshers were supposed to bring in (in theory) newer
ideas,new outlook and dynamism. Without an iota of doubt they were mostly
brilliant and enthusiastic personnel, but (with due apologies and mean no
disrespect to the clan) the ones who joined LIC fell into the eddy of plus and
minuses and continued the traditional old methodology . For years I have attended the Branch managers
Conferences and the same routine question “how much increase u will show to the
corresponding period”. The only change I noticed was in the ‘menu’.So jokingly
we used to ask what is the menu instead
of agenda.
Came Ishwar Dayal
and the nomenclatures replaced the old ones, but the contents remained the
same. Sycophants were happy to continue their usual chore of carrying tales, backbiting etc. To them both the promotees and freshmen were the
same.
The chief
executives found that they could earn more by the TA and DA flying to New Delhi
and wait on the Babus. The more Wait the more DA.
Suddenly now I find
me walking towards the western horizon which has turned bloody Red, which in turn will make way for the darkness. It will be
a long wait for the dawn if any. Of course for us the pensioners waiting is not
new. Afterall we have waited for almost two decades. Many of us have left with a non fulfilled desire and
many more will go.
It is natural that the lady with her eyes blinded cannot
look at the judicial system that has thrust upon us. But I feel she can at least
hear what’s going on and delver and help in delivering justice, which has
already been delayed thereby denying the true aspirations of the senior
citizen.
Thank you devil, u can leave me now > my mind has recalled
some nostalgic moments.
