HYDERABAD,
August 4, 2015
Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan presents Dak Seva award to S. Vimala Rani in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
“You have no idea the sentimental value that a three
and a half decades-old letter from my brother has and how it feels now,
especially considering that a bomb blast took his life a day after I got
the letter by post.”
These words ushered in pin-drop
silence in the Indira Priyadarshini auditorium, coming as they did,
from Governor of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, E.S.L. Narasimhan, at
the ‘Dak Sewa’ Awards ceremony on Tuesday.
Asked for
details, he told this correspondent that it happened in 1981, when he
was in Moscow on training as an Indian Police Service officer, while his
brother was in the Indian Administrative Service, working on an
assignment in Jorhat, Assam. The latter had just occupied his chair in
his chambers when a bomb planted beneath went off, Mr. Narasimhan said,
his eyes turning moist.
Addressing the impressive
gathering, he said that despite the strides on the information and
communication technology front and though he himself uses a lot of
technology in his daily life, he was very conservative on several
counts. “Notwithstanding the advent of technology, the Postal Department
is the most dependable, efficient. WhatsApp may give you texts and
pictures instantly, but post brings you the personal touch,” he said, to
thunderous applause.
“Please restore the human touch
to several services of yours that is sadly missing today,” he asked the
Chief Post-Master General (AP & Telangana), B.V. Sudhakar and
senior officials present. Continuing in the same vein, he said it was
simply amazing how a postman found addresses that were nowhere on
display, and again surprised the audience, saying “I find the postman
akin to God.”
Mr. Narasimhan had a caustic word for
the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. “I urge GHMC to take up the
task have signboards indicating roads and addresses all over the twin
cities, first and foremost.
Earlier, Mr. Sudhakar
outlined several initiatives that the Department had taken in AP and
Telangana and how they were being replicated in other postal circles
across the country. “Contrary to popular perception that the numbers are
on the wane, our postmen made 19 lakh deliveries in 2013-14 and it went
up to 21.5 lakh in 2015, representing a growth of 18 per cent that is
more than the industry average. On the efficiency of SpeedPost, he said
it went up from 67 per cent in March, 2013 to a whopping 97 per cent in
June, 2015,” he said, summing up.
Towards the close,
Post-Master General (PMG), Vijayawada, M. Sampath presented Mr.
Narasimhan a philatelic album and while PMG-Visakhapatnam, Sarada
Sampath gave him a pictorial postcard, PMG-Business Development gifted
him a ‘My Stamp’ with his photograph on it.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com
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