Mumbai blast – Central Excise employee gets aid from public

By Vijay Kumar

The Hindustan Times reported on Friday that Central Excise Superintendent DhirajRathod who lost his forearm in the Mumbai blast is worried about his daughters’ education and a kind HT took up his cause and published his story. After that ,Joe Rajan, CEO of Harvey India and filmmakers AshokePandit and MadhurBhandarkar responded and offered to finance the education of his two daughters.

What is the department doing? What are his colleagues and associations doing? Why should money get rotten in the welfare fund when your employees are getting charity from public? Should we not feel a little ashamed that an employee in a premier organisation like Customs and Central Excise needs to get aid from the public? When corruption in the department is great news, why is this kind of tragedy not a big news and why is it that we don’t bother? Let us hope the department does not initiate disciplinary proceedings against the officer for receiving money from the public!