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Visag Innings Closure
During my tenure in HPCL Visag, though I have achieved the distinction of One of the FIRST to introduce DCS in India, life was not easy. Though I enjoyed the job assignment fully with the support of my team, there was full of politics- Bombay Vs Visag differentiation. After VREP completion, none of the project team members were assigned any definite role/ responsibility. I took advantage of that period in completing my Hindi Rashtra Basha examinations and got first class.
In Aug. '86 I was deputed for one week training course at Khandala/Lonawala- Training For Trainers conducted by HPCL Training Head Mr Harry D' Silva. That outing in Hill Station that too during Maharashtra monsoon gave me complete relief. Out of 27 attendees( drawn from all over India) I stood first in the training & final presentation project , got the shield. My return journey to Visag via Bombay/Hyderabad changed the course of my life and career!
I left the training camp by noon and traveled to Bombay by share taxi ; then caught the Bombay-Hyderabad IA flight. The plane was delayed and reached Hyderabad only around 8 PM. When I got down and after claiming the baggage, climbing up the staircase to get out, somebody from behind
shouted my name. When I looked back, it was Sh KK( K Krishnamurthy, former Chairman,HPCL) who called me. He queried that as it is already late, why not we have coffee in the stall and chat for few minutes. Since I have respect for elders like him I readily agreed and went with him. Initially he enquired about the CO Boiler incident, plant operation conditions and about the welfare of my colleagues. Then he changed the subject asking me, " Is it not time for you to change the job?" After that he asked me to give my CV and said he will look for one. I was taken by surprise shock and queried- are you saying a change of job in India or something in abroad? He responded it may be anything but you do not have future in HPCL to grow under the changed management. His was a plain talk exposing the real truth. Since I was on official tour, I did not keep the CV copy.He understood that and gave me his personal visiting card and asked me to post my CV to his home address at Chembur. On reaching Visag I discussed this subject with my wife. She immediately reacted that since KK and his wife Mrs Naglakshmi are our well wishers, we should send the CV immediately, which I did in August itself and forgotten then. To everybody's surprise, by end November I get a phone trunk call from KSV & Mrs Kamala Vaidyanathan stating that I should
positively meet Mr PN Devarajan at Madras. On that day evening, when I went to recreation club, my another boss- who retired that week only, said in chaste Telugu- Emira,Elluthava, tappakonda Dr PND meet chai. In the night about 10.30PM DHPR phoned and advised me to go and meet PND.
So without any hesitation I traveled to Madras to meet PND. When I called on him at Taj Coramandal hotel, he recollected that he has met me earlier! I responded to him saying yes- at Chemplast interview in 1969. Then he said that Sh KK has briefed him enough about me and stated that I will be called for final interview at Mumbai for regularisation and medical test etc. Since I lost my father that year July only, I requested that the final interview date should not fall on 25/26th Dec.,being 6th month ceremony dates. He acknowledged and confirmed that it will not be so late and will be in first week of December itself. I was called to fly out on 7th December'86 for final interview formalities at Bombay. That is how my Visag innings came to end; Rest is History..........
Key Aspects :- Surprise & shock, Training, Transfer, Ups&down
Visag Innings Closure
During my tenure in HPCL Visag, though I have achieved the distinction of One of the FIRST to introduce DCS in India, life was not easy. Though I enjoyed the job assignment fully with the support of my team, there was full of politics- Bombay Vs Visag differentiation. After VREP completion, none of the project team members were assigned any definite role/ responsibility. I took advantage of that period in completing my Hindi Rashtra Basha examinations and got first class.
In Aug. '86 I was deputed for one week training course at Khandala/Lonawala- Training For Trainers conducted by HPCL Training Head Mr Harry D' Silva. That outing in Hill Station that too during Maharashtra monsoon gave me complete relief. Out of 27 attendees( drawn from all over India) I stood first in the training & final presentation project , got the shield. My return journey to Visag via Bombay/Hyderabad changed the course of my life and career!
I left the training camp by noon and traveled to Bombay by share taxi ; then caught the Bombay-Hyderabad IA flight. The plane was delayed and reached Hyderabad only around 8 PM. When I got down and after claiming the baggage, climbing up the staircase to get out, somebody from behind
shouted my name. When I looked back, it was Sh KK( K Krishnamurthy, former Chairman,HPCL) who called me. He queried that as it is already late, why not we have coffee in the stall and chat for few minutes. Since I have respect for elders like him I readily agreed and went with him. Initially he enquired about the CO Boiler incident, plant operation conditions and about the welfare of my colleagues. Then he changed the subject asking me, " Is it not time for you to change the job?" After that he asked me to give my CV and said he will look for one. I was taken by surprise shock and queried- are you saying a change of job in India or something in abroad? He responded it may be anything but you do not have future in HPCL to grow under the changed management. His was a plain talk exposing the real truth. Since I was on official tour, I did not keep the CV copy.He understood that and gave me his personal visiting card and asked me to post my CV to his home address at Chembur. On reaching Visag I discussed this subject with my wife. She immediately reacted that since KK and his wife Mrs Naglakshmi are our well wishers, we should send the CV immediately, which I did in August itself and forgotten then. To everybody's surprise, by end November I get a phone trunk call from KSV & Mrs Kamala Vaidyanathan stating that I should
positively meet Mr PN Devarajan at Madras. On that day evening, when I went to recreation club, my another boss- who retired that week only, said in chaste Telugu- Emira,Elluthava, tappakonda Dr PND meet chai. In the night about 10.30PM DHPR phoned and advised me to go and meet PND.
So without any hesitation I traveled to Madras to meet PND. When I called on him at Taj Coramandal hotel, he recollected that he has met me earlier! I responded to him saying yes- at Chemplast interview in 1969. Then he said that Sh KK has briefed him enough about me and stated that I will be called for final interview at Mumbai for regularisation and medical test etc. Since I lost my father that year July only, I requested that the final interview date should not fall on 25/26th Dec.,being 6th month ceremony dates. He acknowledged and confirmed that it will not be so late and will be in first week of December itself. I was called to fly out on 7th December'86 for final interview formalities at Bombay. That is how my Visag innings came to end; Rest is History..........
Key Aspects :- Surprise & shock, Training, Transfer, Ups&down
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