Mr S Krishnan, Senior Principal Scientist (absent for the
function), Mr Krishnan, Cook, Canteen, and Mr Emanuel, Organic Lab on 31 August 2015
Ellaruku Vanakkam,
I worked two years in the canteen as Director Nominee for
the Canteen Committee. There is no post
like Director Nominee, this was created by Dr T Ramasami and nominated my name
for that post When I see the canteen, canteen was in zero
profit. Mr Harry Thomas told me that
Rs.25000 put as balance, but later we see Rs.27000/- due for milk payments. Literally there is no balance in the canteen
to run daily work. Daily sales money, we
use to take and buy materials for next day.
I use to take advise from Krishnan, how to run the canteen. In the afternoon, we use to sell pulav, there
is a lot of loss in the canteen, we have to reduce loss, there is no other
way. Then I asked Krishnan, how many KGs
rice you are putting for pulav. He told me 7 KGs rice for pulav making and how
many we can sell, again he said 70 plates, but sales are not more than 30
plates. Then I asked why we are putting
7KGs, what are other masalas like yalaka, etc.
I said you prepare only for 3KG, if anybody is coming more than 30
plates, prepare chapatti or puri. Like
that we use to take advise from Krishnan to run the canteen and reduce the
waste. There is no other way to run the canteen, only
reduce waste whatever possible. We have
to run the canteen,
One day, we went to Dr T Ramasami for LERIG order. He said that he will not give, then I asked how to run the canteen without
orders. He asked me to contact Mr Subba
Rao, and we met him and then he said we are inviting tenders from caterers. We went for bidding and won and got the
order. Dr Krishnama Naidu was the
Chairman, said come Rao, this is not our family function, if they give we do
it, otherwise leave it. But I went again
to Dr Ramasami for Order, again he said that you cannot do it, I should not get
1% complaint. Then I said how it is
possible, one fellow say karam is high, another fellow may say karam is
low. Again Ramasami said that I should
not get any complaint from anybody, I accept for the same and took the
order. The whole order was done due to
support of Canteen staff, especially Krishnan support. What they asked me, you give me immediate over
time money, then we will work, I promised the same, the third day afternoon, I
paid over time money to them. Before we
leave we put Rs.235000/- profit in the canteen, after 5 or 6 years went on
smooth due to good balance. What I am
telling is we are bidding for our own canteen to get the order.
One Mr Rahul Alex phanikar, who has studied in IIT, Madras
left his job in US and started a business for incubators for cheap
pricing. Millions of babies are dyeing
because of low weight, Cities no problem for incubator but in villages, no
incubators and no current also. Without
incubator, baby infected by bacteria and die easily. He invented less than 1% cost of conventional
incubator and sold 2.5 lakh incubators and saved so many babies. It operates on
battery. Our canteen is also like
incubator baby, we have to see, there should not be high temperature or low temperature
because many use to come to canteen. If
you run the canteen, you can run parliament very well.
Krishnan, use to live happily, always smiling, laughing, he
use to do mimicry and makes us laugh, we use to enjoy what he does at that
moment. I read in the news paper that happy hormone will be injected
for treating cancer disease, one Bengali from US and one from Kolkata invented
the happy hormone which is treating cancer disease. What happens when happy hormone injected,
this hormone won’t allow blood supply to cancer tumors, so it will naturally
dye. Generally in the cancer treatment,
other healthy cells also die, not only cancer cells, that is the main
problem. Here happy hormone won’t allow
blood supply to cancer tumors, so it won’t harm the healthy cells, it kills
only cancer cell. Krishnan wife also
suffered for last ten years but she survived because of happiness which
Krishnan use to have.
In Mahabharata, there is a story about the hospitality. Athidi Devo Bhava means guest is a god to
us. In Mahabharata, Vyasa maharsi told
to Pandavas to go one family as guests for that house to hide themselves. Because he is the person does athidi seva. Olden days, some families go for guest, give
food for the guest and then only they take food, if they won’t get guest, that
day they won’t take food. In India many
good traditions were there in olden days.
Even today some of the villages they use to follow this tradition, they
search for guest and give food after that they will take food. What mahabharat says that Bakasura use to
take food from that village. Every family one day, they have to send food and
one human being. Kunti sent Beema
instead of that house boy, after that Beema killed Bakasura. What the story tells us is the good things
won’t go anywhere it gives back, so their child saved. Here our Emanuel, I seen he used to dress
well, and take care of many big fellows with so much obedient.
Mr S Krishnan, tannery also is retiring today, he also
worked practically when tanneries are closed by court order, he went to the tanneries and helped to pollution control practically. In tanneries, there are many kalvais (canal)
to send water, we do not know where water goes, he personally spy on those
kalvai and closed those things to reopen these tanneries. He is affectionate
person, he use to talk to even enemy, he shares his things to all others and
then only he takes last. I seen him in
many exhibitions, use to talk to me.
I prey almighty to give good health and prosper to them all.
Thank you all.
