It is often seen that officers/employees become victims of inferiority complex after retirement from government/semi government jobs.
For example, let me tell you that ten years ago I went to Jaipur to meet my son. At that time, when I went to visit a garden near our colony in the evening, by chance I met the engineers of my department, who turned out to be my former acquaintances. He said in our conversation, “I have retired this year and live in the opposite colony. I asked him about willingness to visit his house the next morning. That engineer’s brother told me that you can come, but if you ask anyone about my house in the colony, etc., then you do not tell them that I have retired. I have not told the colony yet that I have retired, I get ready at 10 o’clock as before and leave the house so that the people of the colony keep saying Namaste as usual.
Whenever his customers/clients used to meet that fellow while in service for 35-36 years, it was normal practice to say Namaste, then used to talk about work. The craving for Namaste to that person has not ended, I consider it as an inferiority complex.
My assessment is that if you keep good communication with the public while in government service and do not obstruct their work, then even after your retirement, they will meet you with respect and will do Ramasama (Namaste).
For example, I lived in Chaumu Division of Jaipur from 1985 to 1990 and got good respect from the public, because my effort has been to get electricity properly at the time of harvest. In the office also, if the consumer would come with his complaint, I would try to make him completely satisfied.
Three days after the above meeting, I was standing at the Jaipur G.P.O. M I, on the roadside; waiting for the taxi. After some time a taxi full of three or four farmers was coming towards me from the wrong direction, so I thought maybe the brakes had failed, so I backed down a bit. I saw that the farmers and sarpanch descended, they introduced themselves to be from Rampura, Dabri village and said hello. They recognized me from afar, even after twenty years. So they asked the driver to take a turn in the wrong direction and came to meet me. They urged that I should accompany them to their village today itself and see the saplings planted by me, twenty years ago. But that day I had to return back to Jodhpur, so I went to that village after three-four months. When the sarpanch talked about the plant, I remembered that a worker of that village had died in an electrical accident when I was the Executive Engineer in Chaumu Division and Rampura Dabri was in one of my sub-divisions
I also went to the cremation of the deceased along with my assistant engineer, employees that day. There the sarpanch had told me that day that the widow is from a poor family and there is no land property here, uneducated too. So now this widow will have to beg for her living. It was God’s grace that the desire to help him became strong in my mind. I talked to my subordinate engineers, labor leaders and planned about helping that widow, then all happily agreed without any debate.
Readers, you will be happy to know that with the financial support of all the engineers, employees and workers of Chaumu block, in Rampura Dabri village, a vacant plot was bought in the name of a widow for 25 x 50. Completed construction of two rooms, kitchen, lat-bath and boundary and got electricity and water connection done. The widow got the compensation amount after death of about Rs 86,000/-, and got a government job in the electricity department. A grand event was organized in the village. When the MLA presented the building to the widow, the villagers had arranged food for about 300 persons on that day. Our then Superintending Engineer became so emotional that he said that I am not in a position to give a speech now.
If government officers/employees keep such behavior from the public, then I think such people will do Ramasama (Namaste) to you even after your retirement.
What do you say about it my dear readers. didn’t I say right?
-Er. Tarachand
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