I have been sitting in the Pantry room located at the ground floor of CCR w.e.f 21st April 2011. As per the company’s policy or as a customary (only The Almighty can tell you), the centralized A/C at the CCR is turned off at 4:30 p.m. daily. In fact working in such conditions at the evening time is pathetic and that too at the time of e-return filing which warrants late hour sitting is worth not to be discussed about. I badly required at least a pedestal fan to work during such time.
When the scene went intolerable, I made my mind to ask for a fan. As we all know that, our Glorious History is evidence to a famous saying which goes as ”Nothing Great has ever been achieved without a Revolt”. Keeping that in mind I started my revolt to get a thing as simple as a fan.
I immediately sent a mail to the Electrical department requesting to install a wall mounted fan in my cabin (marking a copy each to the G.M and the A.G.M of the F & A dept). The concerned person of the Electrical dept. came back with a reply that some fans were planned to be purchased and installed for the F & A dept. But it could not be done so, as the P.R. was pending for the want of approval from the same F & A dept.
In reply to the above mails, our G.M replied that for any Capital Expenditure (referring to a mere wall mounted fan), there should be an approval in the Business plan and in case it is very urgent a CER (capital expenditure requisition) needs to be circulated to all the HODs along with the approval of UNIT HEAD, (and that was not enough) finally to be sent to CFO/CEO/COO for approval.
He(G.M) was helpless, but to follow the Protocol .After reading his mail I got reminded of a scene – A person severely injured in an accident, was rushed to the hospital in a life and death situation , but the Doctor is insisting them to complete all the formalities before he could touch his instruments for operating the patient. Such scenes can find place in typical Indian Movies (take for eg. - Muna Bhai M.B.B.S in Hindi or Shankar Dada M.B.B.S in Telugu or for that matter Vasool Raja M.B.B.S in Tamil) whatever language be it.
Well following such a Protocol irrespective of the urgency of the need is quite common in a Democratic governance like our’s.
After a few seconds I found a mail popped up at the corner of my desktop, which came from our A.G.M. When I opened it, I found to my surprise that he requested the Electrical dept. to remove the wall mounted fan from his room and fix it in my room as soon as possible.
The Subject of the Drama.
Finally the fan was mounted in my cabin. I inaugurated it by pressing the ‘ON’ button and felt a sigh of relief. The feeling was such as if I won an Empire…
Chinam Abhishek Patra
Mob No: +91 99403 39997
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd.,
S.F.No.630, Thamaraikulam Village,
Ariyalur Dist, Tamil Nadu.
PIN:621 705
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