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CCE Committee Final Report
Those two days at Peddar Road, myself and MA used to look into various sub committee monthly proceedings and chalk out the draft in series . Then used to have deliberations with Ghoshal and Dr Patel for their expert comments. Dr HM used to be an expert observer. Once certain conclusions are arrived, we used to dictate the final version to Ms Meena. Since she was the party who typed and compiled the monthly exchanges of all sub committees, she did not find difficult in taking notes.
After those 2 day mind blogging efforts, Ms Meena did a wonderful compilation of all our dictation and prepared floppy disks. She only took 4 days to prepare the final version.
By that time it was Oct. '94 end and Dr HM has to submit the final report to Ministry before his retirement in Dec.end.As MA was posted in Madras by that time, that being Deepavali approach time, he suggested that I should come over to Madras and he can organize to get them print compiled/ edited at Adyar Xerox, Madras. Madras being my home town I did not have any issue and celebrated Deepavali with my mother and brother family. Camping for 10 days, we could complete our task successfully, and the final Report prints were ready by Nov. end.
On 7th Dec.1994, in presence of the Ind.Ministry Director Mrs Bharadwaj, Ghoshal, me, Dr HM presented the final Report to Mr Gupta, Secretary, Min. of Industries&Commerce. After going through the findings and Recommendations by the Committee, the Govt. acknowledged the efforts of the committee members and appreciated. For info. substantial amount of this committee recommendations have already been incorporated in statutes.
Knowingly or unknowingly, this is one feather in my cap.
Having narrated about the overall committee proceedings, I have to cover one specific sub committee function and one notable incident.
During the course of the committee operations, Dr HM felt importance and necessity to visit a few marine ports and inspect the existing infrastructure , ship loading and unloading operation of hydrocarbon fluids. For that he formed a special task force- MA, AR, Sh Mishra of EIL, & Sh Muthu Manoharan of SPIC and assigned the responsibility. All these members went to Kandla and Tuticorin ports. In Tuticorin, our interest was to inspect and note unloading of VCM from the ship to spheres belonging to a company in Arumuganeri and in Kandla, IOC operations of loading NGL in a ship.
In Tuticorin , the team did not find anything odd and ticked the operations. But when it came to Kandla, everything was proceeding towards unsafe condition! Though our official inspection was slated for next day morning, we wanted to make a surprise inspection in the late evening itself. When we reached there, we found that no loading arm was there; khalasi workers were shifting the loaded NGL hoses by crow bars so as not to get twisted! Opposite to that , there were instrument/ communication junction boxes without any cover- open state and live. Typical of AR, I got alarmed and shouted loud calling for the Ship Captain and any engineer-in-charge present. The captain responded, stopped the operation and reported to local IOC management. That night, the local Divisional manager Mr D'Souza called on us at guest house and threatened that how can we stop IOC operations and he will complain to CCE and Ministry! Without any fear, I said 'Go ahead'. This being a safety issue, when he complained, he was snubbed by his management itself.
Key Aspects :- Critical challenge, Incident analysis, Surprise&shock, Team building
CCE Committee Final Report
Those two days at Peddar Road, myself and MA used to look into various sub committee monthly proceedings and chalk out the draft in series . Then used to have deliberations with Ghoshal and Dr Patel for their expert comments. Dr HM used to be an expert observer. Once certain conclusions are arrived, we used to dictate the final version to Ms Meena. Since she was the party who typed and compiled the monthly exchanges of all sub committees, she did not find difficult in taking notes.
After those 2 day mind blogging efforts, Ms Meena did a wonderful compilation of all our dictation and prepared floppy disks. She only took 4 days to prepare the final version.
By that time it was Oct. '94 end and Dr HM has to submit the final report to Ministry before his retirement in Dec.end.As MA was posted in Madras by that time, that being Deepavali approach time, he suggested that I should come over to Madras and he can organize to get them print compiled/ edited at Adyar Xerox, Madras. Madras being my home town I did not have any issue and celebrated Deepavali with my mother and brother family. Camping for 10 days, we could complete our task successfully, and the final Report prints were ready by Nov. end.
On 7th Dec.1994, in presence of the Ind.Ministry Director Mrs Bharadwaj, Ghoshal, me, Dr HM presented the final Report to Mr Gupta, Secretary, Min. of Industries&Commerce. After going through the findings and Recommendations by the Committee, the Govt. acknowledged the efforts of the committee members and appreciated. For info. substantial amount of this committee recommendations have already been incorporated in statutes.
Knowingly or unknowingly, this is one feather in my cap.
Having narrated about the overall committee proceedings, I have to cover one specific sub committee function and one notable incident.
During the course of the committee operations, Dr HM felt importance and necessity to visit a few marine ports and inspect the existing infrastructure , ship loading and unloading operation of hydrocarbon fluids. For that he formed a special task force- MA, AR, Sh Mishra of EIL, & Sh Muthu Manoharan of SPIC and assigned the responsibility. All these members went to Kandla and Tuticorin ports. In Tuticorin, our interest was to inspect and note unloading of VCM from the ship to spheres belonging to a company in Arumuganeri and in Kandla, IOC operations of loading NGL in a ship.
In Tuticorin , the team did not find anything odd and ticked the operations. But when it came to Kandla, everything was proceeding towards unsafe condition! Though our official inspection was slated for next day morning, we wanted to make a surprise inspection in the late evening itself. When we reached there, we found that no loading arm was there; khalasi workers were shifting the loaded NGL hoses by crow bars so as not to get twisted! Opposite to that , there were instrument/ communication junction boxes without any cover- open state and live. Typical of AR, I got alarmed and shouted loud calling for the Ship Captain and any engineer-in-charge present. The captain responded, stopped the operation and reported to local IOC management. That night, the local Divisional manager Mr D'Souza called on us at guest house and threatened that how can we stop IOC operations and he will complain to CCE and Ministry! Without any fear, I said 'Go ahead'. This being a safety issue, when he complained, he was snubbed by his management itself.
Key Aspects :- Critical challenge, Incident analysis, Surprise&shock, Team building
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