Tuesday, 21 April, 2009 6:02 PM
From:
"Sp Singh"
To:
dgship@dgshipping.com
Cc:
shippingmastermumbai@dgshipping.com, s_swaminathan@ispatind.com
Dated -21/04/2009
To
The Director General of Shipping
Jahaz Bhavan, Mumbai-400001
Re.Obliteration of the “Articles of Agreement for the employment of Seafarers by Capt.D.R.K. Sahgal of Steamships Shipping & Logistics Pvt. Ltd. And a need of remedy for such unpardonable sins of the Ship-owners and managers.
Thank you for your kind communication No.39(19)CR/98,dtd.30.03.2009,received by me today, which leaves the necessary action of realizing the wages at my end.
i.e.,a) that I could proceed to the courts for my due wages as per secs.143 and 138 of the M.S. Act etc.
b) and initiate a defamation suit against Capt.DRK Sahgal for labeling me an extortionist.
Where as ,on the contrary, I am unashamedly found begging for reconciliation with him and asking for a chance to be employed by him as a second engineer, as I am ever so cruelly instructed to sail, for three months( of course only orally) as a second-engineer(i.e. the next lower rank as per the DGS bible the Meta manual) for again activating my 1st class COC, as I could not complete one years sailing due to the designs of Capt. Sahgal on the 8th of December,2008.
How sad the administration chooses to remain blind to the avowed disrespect and destruction of the “sacred document” of the sea-going fraternity, by the Ship’s Managers like of Capt. Sahgal, when the signing-on seaman asks for a copy of the Contract of his service conditions (viz. myself asking Sahgal) on the 8th of Dec.’08,after having signed-on on the 6th of Dec.,2008,in his Belapur office?
This would, clearly imply that Sahgal, sensing my helplessness .had no intention of paying me after the end of my three months contract. Yes, indeed they pay just once when the seaman is leaving the ship, or do not pay at all (so one has to make sure that the payment is done in the office, before you sign-off on board, elsewhere).He had to do no smart bit of thinking on his own, I had provided him all the clue, by sending two e-mails on the 28th of October’08 and again on the 6th of Nov.’08,which he can hardly deny.
The Ship-owners are no better. Take the case of Sri S.Swaminathan, Vice-President, Shipping for Ispat Industries, whom I kept posted of all the game Sahgal was upto, starting on the 10th of December’08,when I first informed your goodselves by registered mail and called upon him on the 5th of March’09,before leaving town for a fortnight, when he reassured me that Sahgal will not be allowed to get the better of me and he will send my representation to his own legal-cell and called me when I return to Mumbai. I have e-mailed him twice (enclosed), but without any response uptodate. What does Ispat Industry gain from the gain to Sahgal ? Nothing more than a bad name and censor from your goodselves.
God willing, if I am still not able to secure an “inhumanized” job of a second-engineer at the age of sixty-nine, for some time more, I will take the cue from your communication and proceed like-wise, against the wrong-doers.
PRAYER
And yet, notwithstanding my actions against the Company, I would plead with your goodselves. and with the GOI to make an official move ,in order to ensure the clarity of the age-old sanctity(since Fletcher Christian’s trial in absentia by the Admiralty for throwing out Capt. Bligh from the “Bounty” and make away to Pitcairren Islands and the Admiralty formulating the modes of the “Articles of Agreement for the employment of Seafarers) of the most important document for the security of seamen from the Ship-owners and their managers, likes of Capt.DRK Sahgal of the Steamships Shipping & Logistics Pvt. Ltd. Of Belapur, Navi-Mumbai ,for which the entire shipping community shall be forever grateful to you. It is the question of an undertaking on oath that they shall not obliterate the “articles of agreement” under any circumstances and shall e-mail the scanned copy of the “articles” signed by the seamen, within five minutes of his signing-on the same and issue a copy of the e-mail sent to the Shipping Master, to the said seaman or seamen, immediately, so that any outside chance of any hanky-panky with the “articles of agreement” by the owners or managers do not exist. This order can be studied in a day and be passed the next day by your goodselves and a general notification to all concerned be issued in bold letters, with urgency.
Yours Obediently
Suresh Pratap Singh
Chartered Engineer ( London )
Marine Chief Engineer
COC No.:95W-5067
e-mail:singh.suresh99@gmail.com
singhsp65@yahoo.com
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