Fan Falls on Central Excise Officer's Chair – Narrow Escape
A Netizen assessee informs us that an Inspector of Central Excise in Panchkul had a narrow escape when a ceiling fan fell on his chair. With the proliferation of Inspectors and Superintendents in the Department, not many inspectors have chairs and tables and even the privileged ones who have them are rarely found in their seats and this Inspector had a providential escape because he was not in his seat! It seems the inspectors are agitated over the callous attitude of the senior officers in proper maintenance of the office – at least ensuring that ceiling fans remain in the ceiling and not fall on inspectors. But those ceiling fans, especially the ones fitted on ancient ceilings, do have a habit of falling on unsuspecting officers irrespective of cadre or status. Some years ago a ceiling fan in the bedroom of the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad came crashing down and hurt the Governor's wife who had absolutely no political or official ambitions. The falling fan knows no status; it can fall on governors or inspectors with equal force – the problem is in the ceiling!