Respected Sri Krishnan,
The e-crcular no-27 is a very encouraging communication for the activists of Associations. However this communication has given rise to some very serious cncerns for the Federation.
Will the Associations coninue to be managed by same people year after year. If it happens, will there be room for the officers who are retiring now. If the veterans have faild to bring in new activists are they really doing good service to the Association, or leading it to natural death. For an organization of Sr citizens lack of change in leadership is bound to be suicidal.
We are definitely not against the super Seniors, since their contribution must be respected and their presence should be a source of inspiration for the newcomers to the Association.
In Kolkata you will continuously find change in leadership since every 3years an activist relinquish post but continue as an activist, thereby increasing the tribe perpetually. It is high time that our Federation preach all the Associations the need for gradual change in leadership, however unpleasant it may sound.
We have full confidence in the present leadership of the Federation. They will not fail in this apparently difficult task.
With regards.
yours sincerely,
Dilip Kumar Ghosh
GENERAL SECRETARY
LIC RETIRED CLASS-I OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION,
Kolkata
Dear Sri Ghosh,
Thanks for your communication . My first point is reg your letter to me, being also sent to so many other members .That job of expanding a conversation to a larger platform should justifiably be left to me. Otherwise, what you do, will start off a big discourse, which I may have little control over. I had once addressed a communication requesting members writing to me, not to take the liberty, to expand such conversation into a public debate, which may incidentally carry other overtones, and I may have the task cut out, to bring order back in the group. If such views are required to be shared, I can always decide to do so through my messages I send as e-circulars to all of you from time to time.
Circumstances vary from place to place, particularly in the retired community of officers. In Kolkata your members are all alert and active, for you to have such a principle implemented of a rotation every 3 years. But elsewhere, I could myself see, during their elections, that other people were not wanting to come forward to hold positions of responsibility. And the activities of the Assn must go on. So the ones who are dedicated to the cause keep pitching in for a time longer than they themselves would have liked. While what you say may be the ideal , we must contend with realities of the here and now. And if , for the sake of rotation, people not so keen, are forced into seats of responsibility, the activities of such Assns might take a knock, creating difficulties for the Federation. That kind of responsibility of churning the people, taking on the positions of the Assn, must in reality come from the initiative of each Assn , making sure that things will go on normally, with such frequent changes. Thanks
D.Krishnan.
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