Sunday, March 4, 2012

Shri Munuswamy, Lab Assistant retired on 29 February 2012

Ellaruku vanakkam,

Today Munuswamy is retiring from his service and I pray almighty to give him a happy retired life.

Whenever my relatives come to visit CLRI, they use to appreciate Garden first, they use to say you have a beautiful garden, we have not seen such a garden anywhere. This credit goes to Garden workers especially to Shri Munuswamy. We use to see him as a dedicative worker in the garden and he is so obedient. I think olden days, all are obedient in that cadre but we are expecting this obedience from this today’s generation in the same cadre.

We have given so much importance for gardens, in CSIR we have National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow (NBRI, Lucknow) for this research. I have seen good gardens in other institutes also. I went to Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur (IHBT) and I have seen some kind of leaf which is very sweet and that is used to prepare sweets for diabetes patients. It is really a good one for diabetic patients.

Gardening is not so easy, gardeners use to prepare their own compost fertilizer for the particular plants. Some plants only will come for our atmosphere (we cannot get Apple tree planted in Tamil Nadu and we cannot get Mango in North, Dr G Thyagarajan, former Director tried Hyderabad grass here in CLRI, but failed due to atmosphere) We use to see they are preparing compost fertilizer for our garden plants and they make the land ready for seed the plant.

I have seen full page photograph of Mr Ettiappan, Previous years gardener in CLRI 50 years celebrations book. CLRI has given so much important even they are in low post for their dedication to the work and their contribution really worthy praise in the 50 years of CLRI. Even today people use to remind that old gardener for his dedicative work to the garden.

In the same way, Mr Munuswamy is so dedicative to garden work, and so obedient to higher officials. They have won many awards for their work in the horticulture and I think everybody knows this. This is the hard work done by Mr Munuswany and his colleagues.

Thank you

In the last I presented a MF Hussain Painting to Shri Munuswany, Lab assistant