P 7
Baroda Experience-Contd.....
On Sundays without fail BS used to pick me up for Tamil Movie morning show at Utsav cinema and then lunch at his home. After lunch I used to enjoy Sunday afternoon knap at his home itself.
Then at 4PM,after having a cup of tea go out and meet the group of bachelor engineers of IPCL construction personnel and spend Sunday evening. On Monday morning usual routine start. This was going on until the Sept.17th,Viswakarma day in 1972.
That day both Alkan and Simon carves, the two leading contractors at site had pooja in their respective pandals. All of sudden one Mr Prabhakar, a welder of Simon Carves raised a protest(typical of labour union leader) and the situation went out of control at site. A lock out was declared and the strike went on for 40 days. Mr Tripathi and Ms Kalyani, local union leaders of that area joined the menace and worsened the situation.
The beauty in Alkan was that all the workmen had a high respect for me and BS; rather they used to
serve tea to us when we were sitting in the compound wall entry gate on sentry duty.They used to talk generally and not about the issues at all. Once the strike was called off, the work at site peaked and went full throttle.
The calibration team started the field loop checking activity. That time we increased our team strength by inducting S/Sh Ganesh and Bhaktavatsalam, technicians qualified from ITI. The challenge of the loop checking in pneumatic age was thrilling and everyone used to feel the satisfaction&joy. But personally I got physically exhausted and aspired for change. As luck would have it, both my initial bosses of M/S Taylor- Mr Sampath and Mr CP Srinivasan have joined M/S SPIC and they have spoken about me to their boss Mr SV Rajagopal. SVR contacted me and said that 'you join Spic training center as Asst.Training Officer-Instrument to start with &then later transfer to instrument department'.This I shared with BS and he forwarded my resignation to HQ at Bombay. With regret the HQ accepted my resignation but asked me to continue &complete the entire DMT plant loop checking before leaving.
As I was a crazy cricket follower,I put a condition that I should not miss the Test match at Chepauk
which used to be during Pongal holidays and I should be positively released by 8th Jan.1973 from site. The beauty is that Alkan not only relieved me by that date, but also given me a II class railway ticket all the way to Madras, even for a resigning employee!
Here I have to highlight an important incident. 8th Jan.1973 is an important date in my diary for following reasons.As I was getting relieved from site on that day I handed over all my hand tools to stores and got clearance by 4.30PM. while sitting with BS, Mr K Sethuraman,Operations Manager of IPCL(who later became Production Director) came to Alkan office &questioned BS, how Alkan can relieve AR. BS explained to him why&what made Alkan to relieve me. Then KS changed his tone and requested me&BS whether AR can help him(IPCL) for commissioning one level control loop in a horizontal drum having control valve at an elevation.I looked at BS face and he looked at me! When I opened my mouth saying that I have already handed over the tools, BS intended the tools in his name itself and asked me to go to field and perform. I requested BS to help me in packing my clothes in hotel and check out from hotel/bring the luggage to station directly.He responded that it is not an issue at all and he has asked my colleague Mr Saldhana to carry out.
I went to site with KS&Rajesh and commissioned that level control loop by 7.15PM or so.To honour my timely help&service,KS himself drove me to Baroda station and got me dinner before boarding my train to Bombay. KS,BS with family &Saldhana saw me off in Dehra Dun express.That is how my Baroda 1st innings ended.
In next,my SPIC innings start ........
Key Aspects :- Communication, Faith, Human relations, Recognition, Reputation.
Baroda Experience-Contd.....
On Sundays without fail BS used to pick me up for Tamil Movie morning show at Utsav cinema and then lunch at his home. After lunch I used to enjoy Sunday afternoon knap at his home itself.
Then at 4PM,after having a cup of tea go out and meet the group of bachelor engineers of IPCL construction personnel and spend Sunday evening. On Monday morning usual routine start. This was going on until the Sept.17th,Viswakarma day in 1972.
That day both Alkan and Simon carves, the two leading contractors at site had pooja in their respective pandals. All of sudden one Mr Prabhakar, a welder of Simon Carves raised a protest(typical of labour union leader) and the situation went out of control at site. A lock out was declared and the strike went on for 40 days. Mr Tripathi and Ms Kalyani, local union leaders of that area joined the menace and worsened the situation.
The beauty in Alkan was that all the workmen had a high respect for me and BS; rather they used to
serve tea to us when we were sitting in the compound wall entry gate on sentry duty.They used to talk generally and not about the issues at all. Once the strike was called off, the work at site peaked and went full throttle.
The calibration team started the field loop checking activity. That time we increased our team strength by inducting S/Sh Ganesh and Bhaktavatsalam, technicians qualified from ITI. The challenge of the loop checking in pneumatic age was thrilling and everyone used to feel the satisfaction&joy. But personally I got physically exhausted and aspired for change. As luck would have it, both my initial bosses of M/S Taylor- Mr Sampath and Mr CP Srinivasan have joined M/S SPIC and they have spoken about me to their boss Mr SV Rajagopal. SVR contacted me and said that 'you join Spic training center as Asst.Training Officer-Instrument to start with &then later transfer to instrument department'.This I shared with BS and he forwarded my resignation to HQ at Bombay. With regret the HQ accepted my resignation but asked me to continue &complete the entire DMT plant loop checking before leaving.
As I was a crazy cricket follower,I put a condition that I should not miss the Test match at Chepauk
which used to be during Pongal holidays and I should be positively released by 8th Jan.1973 from site. The beauty is that Alkan not only relieved me by that date, but also given me a II class railway ticket all the way to Madras, even for a resigning employee!
Here I have to highlight an important incident. 8th Jan.1973 is an important date in my diary for following reasons.As I was getting relieved from site on that day I handed over all my hand tools to stores and got clearance by 4.30PM. while sitting with BS, Mr K Sethuraman,Operations Manager of IPCL(who later became Production Director) came to Alkan office &questioned BS, how Alkan can relieve AR. BS explained to him why&what made Alkan to relieve me. Then KS changed his tone and requested me&BS whether AR can help him(IPCL) for commissioning one level control loop in a horizontal drum having control valve at an elevation.I looked at BS face and he looked at me! When I opened my mouth saying that I have already handed over the tools, BS intended the tools in his name itself and asked me to go to field and perform. I requested BS to help me in packing my clothes in hotel and check out from hotel/bring the luggage to station directly.He responded that it is not an issue at all and he has asked my colleague Mr Saldhana to carry out.
I went to site with KS&Rajesh and commissioned that level control loop by 7.15PM or so.To honour my timely help&service,KS himself drove me to Baroda station and got me dinner before boarding my train to Bombay. KS,BS with family &Saldhana saw me off in Dehra Dun express.That is how my Baroda 1st innings ended.
In next,my SPIC innings start ........
Key Aspects :- Communication, Faith, Human relations, Recognition, Reputation.
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