Central Excise officer found dead in Thiruvananthapuram
We were told on Saturday that Gali Kodandapani , Additional Commissioner of Central Excise in Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram was found dead in his rented house. As per the Police, the death seems to be a natural one, possibly a heart attack, but the poor Central Excise officers of Trivandrum had no clue as to how to inform his near relatives. It seems that nobody had the contact numbers of his wife who they heard is a teacher somewhere in Goa or Hyderabad and his only daughter who is said to be studying in Bangalore .
It is unfortunate that in these days of fast communications, we are not able to reach out to people in such situations.
There should be a system where the office keeps a record of all the employees with contact numbers of people to be contacted in case of emergency and this should be updated every week.
And government has a policy of posting the husband and wife in the same station but sadistic administrators of the policy would ensure that this is not done.
Kodandapani would have retired in August 2008 and perhaps his life could have been saved if he was staying with his wife – only if they could be posted in the same place as the government policy directs!