Tame The Habit

It was 1984, my initial few years of service, I was working with Instrumentation Limited (A Govt of India Enterprise) in their construction wing as an installation & commissioning Instrument engineer after passing out in 1977. I was posted in Durgapur, DPL VI unit a power plant 110MW. My experience in bengal till that time was, we cant get things going in schedule, there will be bundh, strike etc. The DPL project also started just like this, an experienced Chief Engineer from DVC was made incharge of the project. Suddenly the Govt replaced him with an IAS officer one Mr Ragahvan. Gradually I noticed this was not a project as it was happening else where, things were moving fast.

The special mention I wish to make is Mr Raghavan the CMD of DPL announced that the project review meetings shall be now onwards conducted on every Monday, at 7:00 AM, inside the plant in a hall close to construction site, not in any meeting room in the administrative building. You know in bengal mostly people leave workplace on Saturday by noon to return almost by noon of Monday, their weekend. Further during these meetings Mr Raghavan used to reach the venue just before 6:55AM, sit on the dias with the consultant DCPL, as we used to enter the hall our presence used to be recorded and who so ever was late used to enter with head down. This meeting on Monday at 7:00AM ensured all in the work place and huge time wasters were avoided without direct instruction or discussion asking officers to be present in time, not to delay etc.Automatic isnt it, may be it wont be possible every where but it was possible in a quite hostile environment.