Dipdyuti's Blog 2017

Escapades of a PSU Executive – IV This is an imaginary series of the experiences of an idiotic PSU executive, working in a ‘Global fortune 500’ company. Please note that any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental. The murderer of Nadua. In the year 1996, the Idiot was posted as in charge of an Aviation fuel station (AFS in short) in a place named Nadua, which is in the tea belt of Upper Assam. One of the most interesting memories of that time in Nadua AFS is shared here. A brief description of the place has to be given to get into the mood. The AFS was located deep inside an important airfield fully under the control of the Indian Air Force. The road to the AFS was through a thick jungle. On the first day, as he reached the AFS, he saw a slimy moss covered old building. The building was cold, dark and foreboding. The jungle with its myriad sounds engulfed the whole area. Walking inside the property, he could understand...

R K Narayan in one of his books wrote about an incident in a remote village in South India where a government initiative was launched to eradicate Malaria. As a part of the program, a projector and a screen were rigged and a film on Malaria was shown to the villagers. Seeing a close-up shot of a mosquito feasting on a person a villager remarked, “Nothing to worry, our village mosquitoes are far smaller and hence not harmful”. As I move about in the remote villages, I am stating a few incidents, which you may call the human face of PMUY. Incident-I As I studied the figures on the computer screen, we found that two villages are having very low participation. Both the District Nodal Officer and the Field Officer gave a piece of their mind to the LPG Distributor (Name: Dinendra Narzary) who was assigned to that village. So one evening Dinen with a school teacher friend visited the village for a session. About thirty villagers sat for the meeting. While explaining about the s...