Inspectors need not escort Joint Commissioners to their cabins - they know how to find way
IN the same DDT ( 13 01 2016), we carried the story of the Vadodara Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise who directed the Control Room Duty Officers (Inspectors) to escort senior officers up to the rank of Joint Commissioners to their respective cabins.
DDT is happy to report that wisdom has dawned, though a little late and the Hon'ble Deputy Commissioner has issued another letter stating that the direction to escort is revoked with immediate effect, as per the directions of the Hon'ble Principal Commissioner.
So finally the senior officers can go from the gate to their cabins in the office all by themselves. It is not really difficult, if you try hard you can achieve the impossible, even go to your cabin without an inspector escorting you.
Kudos to the Deputy Commissioner also.
But….
We are not able to get over the colonial feudalistic servility we thrust upon ourselves. The Deputy Commissioner acts on the directions of the Hon'ble Principal Commissioner. Now from which rank does an officer become honourable? Isn't an Inspector escorting an honourable Commissioner not honourable? Where does honour start from?
As Antony says in Julius Caesar,
Brutus is an honourable man
So are they all, all honourable men
And as the soothsayer says,
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
A judge fell down as he was climbing the steps to the court. A lawyer came running and asked, "Is your honour hurt?". "Stupid, it is not my honour that is hurt; it is my foot", said the honourable judge.