Aligarh Posting another wonderful memories of year 1965 to 1969 (Part 1)

After some time I again was transferred to headquarter subdivision at Aligarh. I was allotted a type 4 residence in Tube well colony situated near the exhibition ground. My subdivision looked after the maintenance of tube well colony ,store ,and tube wells of Iglas group, Sasni group and Hathras Group. I used to visit regularly tube wells and I was entitled 50 paise per KM as TA for travelling on foot called as foot mileage. We had to show how many night halts at Headquarter and how many outside headquarter and how many out side state. The then E E was very strict and once I had not sanctioned the leave of my Ziledar who than approached the E E.I was astonished that E E sanctioned leave and gave a strange remarks on his leave application which I quote as under , " think of leaves you avail from the undersigned and hence the leave has been sanctioned ".

 

Chaudhary Charan Singh with JG Sethi
Aligarh 1967

In good olden days there were strange ways of working and even then we used to have respects of the officers. The whole division and department used to be a big family Due to reorganisation E E changed and I was under the then E E Sh.Sukhbir Singh. He was near retiring age. He had two daughters and one son. The elder daughter was married to defence person.The younger daughter's name was Pushpa and sons name was Vinod. I had a cordial relation with My E E and his family and My residence was in front of the house of my E E. Some times I was directed to escort Pushpa to the school. I still remember the school uniform of her school used to be green shirt and white salwar. These were some of the duties the staff used to do happily to get good report. One day it was informed by my E E that Pushpa's marriage proposal had come with son of Choudhary Charan Singh who was Chief Minister of U P at that time On this auspicious occasion he wanted my Landmaster car to go to Meerut. I happily agreed and sent my car with driver SH Ram Sewak. After returning from Meerut Sh Sukhbir Singh was very happy as Pushpa was selected by SH Ajit Singh. I was informed that Sh Ajit Singh had done computers Eng and came back from USA. My E E also congratulated me that my car was very lucky and that they had got good match. From that moment the arrangements started and my E E used to consult my self and my colleages regarding arrangements and our duties. All the 4 AE's were very happy and started to perform their best to get the good impression. I was belonged to Delhi My E E "s family and Pushpa also accompanied me to my residence. Sh Sukhbir Singh and family liked our simple family and Singh Sahib used to consult with our Bauji. I was arranging some of the shoppings from Karol Bagh for Pushpa. 

One day Pushpa wanted that she wanted to get her hairs cut but her father was not at all interested as such we went to Karol Bagh for cosultation and the time involved .The shopkeeper told us that it would take much time so the idea was dropped. Now she wanted to see picture in cinema Alpna as it belonged to her friends father who was their family friend. So all went to see the picture. My duty was to hire a big car ( private Taxi) for the bridegroom and get decorated. So I got it booked After arranging all the shoppings and ornaments from Chandni Chawk we started back to Aligarh early morning .Why early morning was a big question? It was advised by my Bauji that all knew that marriage was being organised as such precautions were to be observed for safety. As all of the lanes adjoining houses knew this all the neighbors started inquiring and we also started bosting with our colours up. As when Pushpa would meet Ajit for the first time how she would greet him ? To this quarry it was decided that girl should greet the boy by offering a rose flower. That the boy and girl would meet at Gandhi Udyog Builbing at cannaught place near REGAL CINEMA.Continuing............celebrations at Aligarh