The 1965-220 stalwarts

The issue and the cartoon in the 

pages of Chronicle take me back 

to my very early days in LIC as 

ASSISTANT. As my memory goes, 

I saw a group of my seniors elevated 

to the category of HGA in 1971. 

Perhaps, thereafter, the automatic 

promotion to the HGA cadre was 

discontinued.

The HGAs then used to  maintain a distinct distance from the Assistants and Section-Heads projecting themselves as the gateway to the management. We saw the   post-1971 Fellow and Associate Assistants questioning competencies of already promoted HGAs.     

We experienced promotion rules stalled because of union rivalries causing many deserving promotion aspirants deprived.

Subir Kumar Mazumder