Idukki Collector Transferred again

Idukki Collector Transferred again

Special Correspondent

Chief Minister says there were complaints against him

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Cabinet decided to shift Idukki Collector Raju Narayanaswamy to Pathanamthitta on Wednesday. Pathanamthitta Collector Asok Kumar Sinha will be posted as the new Collector of Idukki.

Mr. Narayanaswamy was one of the officials who led the operations against encroachments and unauthorised constructions at Munnar that met with a premature end. He had also inquired into a land deal by the son and daughter of T.U. Kurivilla who had to resign as Minister for Public Works over the issue. He had also proceeded against the former Minister P.J. Joseph and his relatives regarding their alleged illegal landholdings.

Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, announcing the decisions of the weekly Cabinet meeting, said there were complaints against Mr. Narayanaswamy. The government had not taken count of the complaints. It felt that it was better to have a stronger person in Idukki. Continuation of Mr. Narayanaswamy in Idukki was not advisable.

Mr. Achuthanandan denied that his transfer was the result of an action taken by the Collector against Kerala Congress (J) leader P.J. Joseph. The new Collector will continue whatever right steps Mr. Narayanaswamy had taken.

The Chief Minister said the Cabinet had not yet decided on a posting for K. Suresh Kumar who headed the Special Task Force at Munnar. The allegations against Mr. Suresh Kumar had been looked into and dismissed as baseless.

Dear friends,

Pls Read the following details and think about RAJU NARAYANASWAMY IAS

First Rank in State in Secondary School Examination

First Rank in University in Plus Two

First Rank in IIT Entrance Examination

First Rank in All India IIT Computer Science

First Rank in IAS Entrance Examination

First Rank in IAS Training Institute

On passing out from IIT Chennai Mr. Narayanaswamy was offered
scholarship by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA . He who came from a middle class family believed that he had a
moral obligation to give something in return for the lakhs of rupees
the government spent on him as an IIT student. He had the intelligence
and conviction to realize that this money came also from the poorest
of the poor - who pay up the excise duty on textiles when they buy
cloth, who pay up customs, excise and sales tax on diesel when they
travel in a bus, and in numerous other ways indirectly pay the
government. So he decided to join IAS hoping he could do something
for the people of this country. How many young men have the will power to
resist such an offer from USA ? Narayanaswamy did never look at IAS
as a black money spinner as his later life bears testimony to this fact.

After a decade of meritorious service in IAS, today, Narayanaswamy is
being forced out of the IAS profession. Do you know why?

A real estate agent wanted to fill up a paddy field which is banned
under law. An application came up before Narayanaswamy who was sub
collector the, for an exemption from this rule for this plot of land.
Upon visiting the site he found that the complaint from 60 poor
families that they will face water logging due to the waste water
from a nearby Government Medical College if this paddy field was filled up
was correct. Narayanswamy came under intense political pressure but
he did what was right - refused permission for filling up the paddy
field. That was his first confrontation with politicians.

Soon after his marriage his father-in-law closed down a public road
to build compound wall for his plot of land. People approached
Narayanaswamy with complaint.

When talking with his own father-in-law did not help, he removed the
obstructing wall with police help. The result, his marriage broke up.

As district Collector he raided the house of a liquor baron who had
defaulted Rupees 11 crores payment to government and carried out
revenue recovery. A Minister directly telephoned him and ordered to
return the forfeited articles to the house of the liquor baron.
Narayanswamy politely replied that it is difficult. The minister
replied that Narayanaswamy will suffer.

In his district it was a practice to collect crores of rupees for
earthen bunds meant for poor farmers, but which were never
constructed. A bill for rupees 8 crores came up before Narayanaswamy.
He inspected the bund. He found it very weak and said that he will
pass the bill after the rainy season to ensure that the bund served
the purpose. As expected the earthen bund was too weak to stand the
rain and it disappeared in the rain. But he created a lot of enemies
for saving 8 crores public money. The net result of all such unholy
activities was that he was asked to go on leave by the government.
Later such an illustrious officer was posted as "State Co-Ordinator,
Quality Improvement Programme for Schools". This is what the
politician will do to a honest officer with backbone - post him in
the most powerless position to teach him a lesson. Since he found that
nothing can be achieved for the people if he continued with the State
Service he opted for central service. But that too was denied on some
technical ground.

What will you do when you have a brilliant computer career anywhere
in the world you choose with the backing of several advanced technical
papers too published in international journals to your credit?

When you are powerless to do anything for the people, why should you
waste your life as the Co-Ordinator for a Schools Programme?

Mr. Narayanaswamy is on the verge of leaving IAS to go to Paris to
take up a well paid United Nations assignment. The politicians can
laugh thinking another obstacle has been removed. But it is the
helpless people of this country who will lose - not Narayanaswamy.
But you have the power to support capable and honest bureaucra ts like
Narayaswamy, G.R.Khairnar and Alphons Kannamthanam who have suffered
a lot under self seeking politicians who rule us. You have even the
power to replace such politicians with these kind of people dedicated
to the country. The question is will you do the little you can do
NOW? At least a vote or word in support of such personalities?

Now again transferred from Idukki to Pathanamthitta now for taking stern action against then Minister Mr.T.U. Kuruvila and for finding proof against Mr.P.J.Joseph regarding illegal possession of forest land.

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SABRE

Preface: Recently 38 newly born babies died in Trivandrum Sree Avittom Thirunal Hospital which is run by Kerala Government. On investigation it was revealed that KLEBSIELLA bacteria found in Labour Room and Operation Theatre equipment and table.

SABRE

Kamsa was very generous

Since he killed only six

But we humans are cruel

To kill 38 newly borns

Who’s the culprit

Mankind is the culprit

We loose our values

Day by day steadily

Mothers who lost babies

Who don’t know why

This treacherous thing

Happened to their children

Hippocrates pledge

Never fulfilled by physicians

Still nobody gonna be in gallows

Since we know how to blame on others

Babies who wanna live long

We killed with sabre

Sacrilege done by so called doctors

Not reported to prevent

GuruSagaram

Guru Sagaram

Here I’m gonna depict feeble images of my teachers who taught me or interacted while I was at different levels. I don’t know really whether all of them are still alive or not since I lost contacts with them during my life voyage. I take this opportunity to thank one and all for giving me education which is the greatest wealth in this world.

Chamunni Master

He was my 2^nd standard class teacher. He comes from a peasant family. Actually he boosted my cultural activities. He made me secretary for children association and I remember a funny incident happened. There was a program scheduled every year as anniversary of School and I had to participate in one of the program as 2^nd standard student. I have to sing a song with action. I practiced a lot and went to the stage. I was using microphone in front of me adjusted to my height and I started singing with action. Suddenly I saw people laughing and I was wondering with dilemma to continue or not. Somehow I managed the show and completed. Later I came to know the power failure happened during my program and microphone was not working and that was the reason for laughter.

Chamunni Master’s attire was khadi and the shirt and dhothi were washed with starch so they were like stick. He used to keep a hanky always folded around the collor in order to keep it away from sweat marks.

Chamunni Master used to enquire to my father whenever they met and his blessing was always there with me.

John Master

He was 3^rd Standard class teacher. I remember the fragerance he carry with him always. It was from Ponds Talc Powder he uses and it stays there until evening. I don’t know whether he put it very frequently on his body or not. Also, he keeps a hanky always folded near the shirt. He wears always Polyester shirts. He taught me maths such a way that I got an inclination towards it which I am enjoying till now.

John Master came to our village from another district and settled thereafter getting the job as a teacher in our village. Later he had a tragedy in his life by loosing 4 year old girl. He built a water tank near his house to irrigate the garden. Poor mason did not do any calculation and built without much engineering calculation on thrust and pressure of the water in the tank. One day John master’s child was playing near the water tank and a motor connected to the well was pumping water to the water tank. All of a sudden, the water tank burst due to internal thrust and pressure and bricks and water came with sound and fell on the small baby. She died in the hospital.

Recently, when I went for vacation, I heard that John master died of cancer. May his soul rest in peace.

Kesavan Master

Kesavan Master was good friend of my father. He worked as English teacher in a nearby High School. He had got very good knowledge on all matters on the earth. You can describe him as a versatile personality.

He reads a lot and during his free time, he comes with a cow to graze at our paddy land. That was his main hobby. Also, while his cow grazes, he reads books. When my father visits our fields, he used to talk to Kesavan Master almost daily evenings. Kesavan master never married and always he was alone during his life journey.

During my 10^th standard, Kesavan master came to our house two days before English examination and brought with him old question papers of exams. He helped me to answer each question by question and corrected then and there. It helped me a lot to score 81 out of 100 in English in SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) Examination.

I used to visit him every vacation while I was in abroad. Whatever I forget to buy, I never forget to buy a box of 7’O Clock shaving blade for him since he likes this blades always. Last year Kesavan master died of cancer since he was a smoker. May his soul rest in peace.

Sasidharan Master

He was my class teacher in 6^th standard. He was also an enthusiastic teacher and voracious reader. I used to visit his house regularly. His house is completely filled with books. You can see books everywhere. He is the teacher who groomed my reading habits. He selected the books for me to read and enhance my tastes of reading. He was coordinator of School Library. I used to help him in the library to keep the books in rack according to category. It gave me privilege to take any number of books and any books of my choice. Every year we used to go for purchasing books from nearby town. I used to accompany him in order to select books of my taste. Also, he was the teacher who started Boys Scouts in our school.

I have to tell about his determination especially on his education. He had completed his plus two then teachers training while he joined our school for teaching 6^th standard. Then he acquired degree while working then he finished MA in Malayalam and he obtained M.Phil in Malayalam. When he left our school, he joined Kothamangalam Government college as Lecturer in Malayalam. I admire the growth made in his career. He was never found sitting idle. During the evenings, he gathered paddy field workers and taught them Malayalam alphabets to make them how to read news paper. This was done without taking any penny from them or from government. Now after joining College, I did not hear much about him. I am still searching for him.

Khaja Nawas Master

He is denoted with heavy spectacle and he was our Malayalam Teacher for 10^th standard. He was really gem of a person. He also, took me with him to arrange the books of Library since he was Library coordinator. These sort of works helped me a lot in selecting books for reading. I finished Hunchback of Nostredam, Les Miserable, (Victor Hugo) Mother (Gorky), Karamasov Brothers, Idiot (Dostovsky) during my high school days itself. I always recommend children to read such books to know the world.

Once while he was taking class, I came to know about the depth of his knowledge on our epics. He was teaching one chapter related to Mahabharatha stories. He asked a question to the class that Lord Krishna defeated Kaliya snake and Lord Krishna jumped into Kalindi river from a tree even though banks of kalindi was not having flora or fauna due to the poisonous venom of Kaliya snake. We could not answer back this question even though we know the story. He told the reason as while Amrita was taken from danavas by Mohini, it was sent to heaven by eagle (the vehicle of Vishnu), during its journey to heaven, eagle rested on the branch of this tree and that is the reason it did not die due to poisonous venom of Kaliya snake. It was astonishing for me know the new reason from a learned maestro.

I was very lucky to have him as a teacher in 10^th standard as well as Lecturer in Malayalam in my degree days. He left our school and joined in Government College as Malayalam Lecturer and he taught me once again in degree language classes. Now I don’t know where he is working but still I am remembering him like my elder brother who guided me in all aspects.

Above notes about my teachers are not including about all my teachers but a few only and I will try to find details about others when I could recollect incidents related to them.