Memoirs of Nellai 4 Canara Bank Tirunelveli Town

Canara Bank Tirunelveli Town

In my one day journey into past I visited ten places in Tirunelveli

Canara Bank Tirunelvli Town Branch was my 4^th place of visit

This Branch has played a very important role in my career path.

Ar the age of 22 I reported at this Branch

Mr. R Gopalan was heading the branch – a meticulous man- expert in all wakes of Banking – particularly advances

As clerk I worked here for full 5 years till I was promoted to scale I and transferred to Kerala

Very memorable 5 years indeed

A company of good friends – we worked with competitive team spirit

The branch had all types of Advances –KCC OCC SDB CDB BE ILC FILC NBMS and so on

We had very good customers like Thirumalai Mills Nellai Cotton Mill and  Sun Paper Mill , S.Chokalingam Pillai

In deposit portfolio also we had some rare type of  accounts like ISB (Insured Savings Bank)

I worked under three Branch in Charges- MS R Gopalan   KU Ramasamy and  Ramalingam

MS Naryanan , Balakrishnan  IS Arumugam, S.Mahadevan  I Lakshmanan Dorairaj  and Nainar were officers

Others are Venkatachalam – still I remember his artistic handwriting      L.Padmanabhan               Lakshmi Varagan     Thanu Pillai   

Packiyam Pillai         Sankaran      G.Sivaramakrishnan (GSRK),    

  J.Srinivasa ragavan,          P.K Sankararaman ,          V.Muthukrishnan

DT Sudhakaran       , Sae Naga subranaiyan    E.. Subramaniyan                                       K. Subramaniayn        Rajasekar      Kanthimathi,           G A Parvatham 

K.S Gopalakrihnan             k.Sundaram  ,          Thandavarayan                            

Dayalan          Padmaja      Valli Nayakam ,      Esakki            TL Rajamani and so on

Many were from erstwhile Pandiyan Bank . Still dhoty was office dress for them

G.Sivaramakrishnan, K.Sundaram  and G.Sundram of D.O and myself moved as a team in and outside the branch.

 Mr J Srinivasan also joined us  now and then 

 DO was just opposite to our branch

Still I am maintaining contact with GSRK – Often..

.  K.Sundaram now and then

 G.Sundaram occasionally

Often(almost daily) we went to Hotels and theatres

During my 5 years tenure at this branch many staff marriages and promotions took  both including mine 

I got married while working in this branch .  For this I hosted a biriyani dinner in my house. Almost all the staff members attended. The taste of Biriyani amd Pickles prepared by my mother is still lingering in their tongues  

GSRK also got married .

G Sundaram, K.Sundaram and Padmaja  attended his marriage at Batlangundu . Very sweet memories

DT Sudhakar got married

GA Parvatham got married

The branch was  always in limelight in promotion li            st

MsValli nayagam TL Rajamani  V.Muthukrishnan  GSRK K Sundaram  G.Sundaram and KS Goplalakrishnan and Narayanan   were promoted  apart from me

Mr Narayanan officer wsa an expert in advances and all fields of banking

So this branch was a founding stone for my banking career

Even inspection reports I used to handle independently

A few romantic affairs were going on in the branch

Such a memorable branch I visited after a gap of 40 and odd years.

Like Junction Branch here also place and appearance stood changed 

I know very well none of my  erstwhile colleagues will be there yet I went inside the branch  with some sort of unexplainable expectation  and feelings

I felt like at least meeting the manager and talking a few words

But I think manager was on leave 

So I came out with a strange mixture of joy and disappointment

Still many more things are coming in my mind

 - Mr Sankaranaarayanan – a compassionate DM ,

 Mr Mani DM who arranged a very big party involving all local branches on the eve of our promotion- Mr K.S Gopalakrishnan, G Sundram and myself in same batch ,

our joint study at Trichy under guidance of Mr K. Raman Manager Teppakulam Branch ( brother of K.Sundaram)

 our joint trip to Trivandrum for interview (We were under Trivandrum Circle)

Branch visit of Comrade C.Subramaniyan, Leader of Employees’ union when I was Branch Secretary  and so on

 I think this is more than enough

The posting will be incomplete if I do not  express my heart felt gratitude to

Mr KN Rao a veteran Trade Unionist , founder of Officers’ Union  who was heading Town Branch before my joining there

He was instrumental in my entering Canara Bank Service

Thank You Thank You Thank You so much Sir

Soon we shall meet in Nellai 5

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Memoirs of Nellai 3 Tirunelveli Municipal Office

 

Tirunelveli Municipal Office  

 

Adjacent to Schaffter School is Tirunelveli Municipal office.

My father K.Peer Mohamed was Municipal Commissioner for two different terms

Mr Suryanaraynan and Mr Majeed were chairmen of Council.

When council stood  suspended for  my father was  designated as  special officer

One Mr Suryanrarayanan was Health Officer.

Other staff I remember are

MS Padmanabhan             Chari  Ibrahim Subbiah Veesabaghu Kuppusamy Muthusamy

Dr Kabeer Dr. Valli  and Dr Muthiah were in  charge  Municipal Dispensaries

Mr Arunachala Mudaliar, HM Municipal High School was a close friend of my father

I used to take my lunch in Commissioners Room. My school – Schafffter- was just adjacent to Municipal office  

A good number of students of the school would take lunch in the garden in the office

Municipal administration now and then sent letters to the school objecting to this practice 

A small dilapidated building in Kurukkuthurai near water works was rebuilt as Commissioner’s quarters during my father’s period  

Only a man with great will power could have moved to such a quarters – a lonely house on way to cremation ground - surroundings full of snakes

Memoirs of Nellai will continue after a small break

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ENGLISH 55 BEHOOVE

BEHOOVE

To behoove someone to do something is to make it advisable or necessary to do so, for their own good or that of others.

Example 
It would behoove you to study hard and work for the future you desire.

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MEMOIRS of NELLAI 2 Schaffter High School

Schaffter High School

Tirunelveli Revisit had a good beginning in CB Tirunelveli

Now I am a teenage boy with white shirt tucked in blue half pants.

Standing at the entrance of Schaffter High School I can clearly visualize my HM Mr. J. Arthur Aseervatham – a tall man – with a long stick in his hand, and three PT masters also with sticks roaming in the verandah

Perhaps because of this visualization I did not feel like entering the school.

Here I had my 9^th and 10^th Standard Education and a few months of 11^th standard ( 11 years School)   55 years back

Perhaps this is the only school/ college in my curriculum where wearing of uniform was compulsory

At the very initial stage of my school life , I was sent out of prayer session for not wearing uniform

 Apart from the HM other teachers I remember are

MS Jesumani Arul Devadass ,  Thamban ,  Christudass ,  Arunachalam , Chandra , Joel  Muthuraj

The There 3 PT masters – one tall one short and one of medium height were known more by their nicknames

Mode of transport from home to school was environment friendly one without fuel expense – simply walking

To cut short the distance I used to go through Nellaiappar Temple

Necessarily I had to remove my chappals and keep them in my school bag,

I used to walk very fast.

My English teacher  compared  my walking with gait of British People

A few students’ name I remember

Samudram,  Kutttalingam ,  Syed   Sudalai   Esakki Muthu  Rajkumar

Here the students had a few habits which looked strange to me

Wearing of Vests (Baniyans) was compulsory for PT classes. Most of the students will wear it only for PT class and then ceremoniously remove it and keep it in their bags.

Lending and borrowing of baniyans was also common

Another habit was meticulously counting of books and notes after each class

Very few students wore chappals

Tirunelveli Tamil also sounded strange to me.

In tenth standard there was an option of choosing general or composite mathematics

I was fairly good at general mathematics. But somehow I went to composite mathematics

Till date I do not know why

Our class was taken to Krishnapuram   a nearby village on excursion . There is one ancient temple with fine stone sculptures.

 I still remember 2 sculptures of woman

In one each hair in the head was clearly visible .

In another, if a small stick is inserted into the nostril it came through the other  nostril .

My 11^th standard was in Pollachi due to fathers transfer  

Let us meet in Memoirs of Nellai 3 in a few days

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MEMOIRS of Nellai 1.Canara Bank Tirunelveli Junction Branch

1.Canara Bank Tirunelveli Junction Branch

40 years of Canara Bank Life – 18 placements,  7 states official visit to another 5 states

All these had a beginning in Tirunelveli Branch in August 1969

Still I can recall many names-

MS Venkatraman  Mahadevan Somasundaram  T P Kalyanasundaram   DRP Sundaram , Mandhiram Pillai Desikan, Ramani ,Krishnans Jana , Joysingh  Seetharaman and so on

I am still maintaining FB friendship with Ms TPK DRPsS and Joysingh

Now place and appearance are totally changed

My idea was just to enter the branch, have a glimpse of the counters and come back

But what happened was a surprise – a pleasant surprise

When I was just coming out Mr Paramasivan CM called me to his Cabin and enquired with genuine concern what for I came and simply walked out

I introduced myself and told him that this is my First Branch

He felt very happy and pleased and offered me tea

I also  felt happy that Canbank Tradition is kept alive still

Mr. Paramasivan CM 

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Tirunelveli a revisit

TIUNELVELI 

Neither by native place nor my place of birth

Yet I have a  very great sentimental attachment to this place

Many a important event in our life happened here—

Perhaps this is the only place where my father  served two different terms as Municipal Commissioner and his retirement from service also was here only 

A  few family marriage s were solemnised here

In my life

Graduation,

First Job in CECRI, second job in Canara Bank

Marriage

Birth of children

Promotion to officer cadre

All took place here

Above all my mother breathed her last  here

Recently  I happened to stay in Tirunelveli and I went to many  places which were important in my life  -

 a journey into the past-

I am sharing my  feelings and experiences with you

Posting many pictures in FB is somewhat a confusing thing

So I prefer to post one by one spread over a few days  under the heading

Memoirs of Nellai

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ENGLISH 54 DREAMT

The only English word ending with letters

mt

 is

 DREAMT





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