25.09.09
8th in series to the Hon’ble President.
Ref.:PRSEC/E/2009/06453,submitted on 5.09.09
Reg.necessity of bifurcation of Chief Surveyor’s & Chief Examiner’s jobs.
Current Ref.:Mumbai HC ruling of allowing ATKT for 1.5 lakh faled SSC students to be able to apply for admission to class XI.
This is,obviously,to avoid wastage of money and precious years of youth.
My urgent Sumission:The fifth submission of 05.09.09 may have been general in nature,hence a submission with more clarity,below.
a).my son a 80% B.Tech.passed from MERI and sailed for ten months before taking up 3months prepatory course to appear for MEO Class IV MOT exams and passed the oral exam of Motor(General)in March’08,but is failing till date in it’s written exams.An exam, which was conducted till recently,only orally,till somebody’s idiosyncrasy made the first step more stringent,probably with a view to collect thousands and thousands of rupees every month,by failing boys repeatedly(not even 20 pass out of 120).Collection of revenue is a sure shot a good entry in the confidential report of a govt.servant.
b).another reason can be the dictates of the industry to the DGShipping,that the need of class IV certificates was minimal,so the suggestion to CS cum Chief Examiner to fail the boys,by setting out of the way papers,wholesale.Why should the boys suffer on the needs of the Industry?And why should the DGS or the CS abide by the whims of the Industry?
c).In the ensuing bargain,the old-age parents suffer,both mentally and economically.
d).My letter to the Hon’ble Minister of Shipping and JS(ports),yesterday,will illustrate to your Excellency,the creation of many unnecessary posts of examiners in the DGS,as opposed to just one(that of the old ornamental post of the Chief Examiner for the CS) as provided in the Act 44 of 1958(vide secs.76,78 &79),in order to make room for many more surveyors ,permanently in the air-conditioned corridors of power,and do a work,designed originally for the POMMD. A Gazette notification is considered enough for tinkering with the Act of Parliament.
e).The job of a Surveyor is to see that Shipping is safe by itself and for the ports on the extensive coast and not for signing mark-sheets of examinees.This must stop at the earliest and Surveyors should devote fully to the problems of Shipping and show active presence in the field outside their cushy cabins in Mumbai.They are selected as field officers and not babus of the office,to which they have,gloriously,adopted and are adhering to the MPPinto formula to get a good CR.
f).I beg to submit for your gracious suggestion to the Minister or the Administrative Reforms to very kindly take my submissions above and consider constituting a high-powered Committee to mitigate the sufferings of thousands of MOT examinees and the double the no. of their parents,from the cruel and sinister clutches of the present lot of surveyors,armed with a bible created for them by Sri MPPinto,with inputs from one DR.Mishra,a clever surveyor to have gifted his ilk with cushy jobs,out of turn,for which the entire abovementioned lot of humanity,shall be forever,grateful to your Excellency.
Yours Obediently
Suresh Pratap Singh
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
about orissa coastline mess-up on 09.09.09
24.09.09
To,Joint Secretary(ports),Ministry of Shipping,G oI,,New Delhi.
Kind Attention:Sri Rakesh Srivastava.
About Orissa Coastline Mess –up.
Sinking of Mongolian Ship M.V.Black Rose,with 900tons of fuel oil,on 09.09.09.
Why no representative of the Chief Surveyor from the DGShipping sent/gone there,other than the N.A.& POMMD Kolkata,Capt. Panda,both deck-officers?(as reported by TOI.).
On panic stations from Paradip port,the DGS sent the Nautical Advisor but no Engineer Surveyor,to see for himself the lackadaisical attitude of the engineering Surveyor,in charge,locally to have allowed such a rotten ship to come anywhere near the Indian coast for such a mishap to have taken place,endangering flora and fauna and the coastal populace(being extensively covered by the media.).The CS,other than getting his feed -back from the POMMD,Kolkata , should have promptly dispatched one of the senior surveyors or the deputy chiefs to coordinate,assess and supervise the exigency and find-out how come a ship like that was at all allowed on the coast.There is nothing extra ordinary about that,as for last twenty years,any ship attaining fifteen years of age,is just not allowed on the U.K.coast.What is stopping our administration from doing so?The office of the DG Shipping has been created for such requirements to be looked after.And the Office of the Chief Surveyor is to assist the DGS in these matters.But Surveyors and Deputy Chiefs are more interested in examining the engineers,a job we were told in revalidation classes , meant for the MMD under POMMD.Under secs. 76,78 and 79 of the M.S.Act,it is only the CS,who occupies the ornamental post of the Chief Surveyor,since the times of the British.But the rules made vide the Meta Manual have created ample scope of cushy cum bossy jobs in the headquarters of the DG Shipping and the MMD is virtually bereft of it,thanks may be mainly due to Dr. Mishra as I was told by a GM of the SCI. One does’nt know whether this needs a ratification and amendment in the Act.But the rule itself does need a looking- into for its efficacy in the above light of neglect of the problem on the Orissa coast,by the CS,in the aftermath of the tragedy.
2 I recall sailing on Tankers and of the SOPEP drills conducted there,regularly,using primitive devices for containg Oil-spreading technology with large encircling Oil-booms with oil absorbing saw-dust and mats or oil dispersants(which was on the verge of being banned) and eventually the oily water to be sucked-out of sea if a pump could be made available from shore-side with a vessel for collection of the same like in the case of the Orissa muck-up,presently. A report from a deputy chief Surveyor is the call of the day and high alert for the Chief Surveyor and battery of his able Surveyors to stop such ships from entering their territorial –jurisdictions on the long Indian coast of nearly 7500kms-plus.
Thanking you.
Yours Truly
Suresh Pratap Singh
Marine Chief Engineer
Ph.:022-27745804
Mob.09935398306
Email:singhsp65@yahoo.com
Singh.suresh99@gmail.com
To,Joint Secretary(ports),Ministry of Shipping,G oI,,New Delhi.
Kind Attention:Sri Rakesh Srivastava.
About Orissa Coastline Mess –up.
Sinking of Mongolian Ship M.V.Black Rose,with 900tons of fuel oil,on 09.09.09.
Why no representative of the Chief Surveyor from the DGShipping sent/gone there,other than the N.A.& POMMD Kolkata,Capt. Panda,both deck-officers?(as reported by TOI.).
On panic stations from Paradip port,the DGS sent the Nautical Advisor but no Engineer Surveyor,to see for himself the lackadaisical attitude of the engineering Surveyor,in charge,locally to have allowed such a rotten ship to come anywhere near the Indian coast for such a mishap to have taken place,endangering flora and fauna and the coastal populace(being extensively covered by the media.).The CS,other than getting his feed -back from the POMMD,Kolkata , should have promptly dispatched one of the senior surveyors or the deputy chiefs to coordinate,assess and supervise the exigency and find-out how come a ship like that was at all allowed on the coast.There is nothing extra ordinary about that,as for last twenty years,any ship attaining fifteen years of age,is just not allowed on the U.K.coast.What is stopping our administration from doing so?The office of the DG Shipping has been created for such requirements to be looked after.And the Office of the Chief Surveyor is to assist the DGS in these matters.But Surveyors and Deputy Chiefs are more interested in examining the engineers,a job we were told in revalidation classes , meant for the MMD under POMMD.Under secs. 76,78 and 79 of the M.S.Act,it is only the CS,who occupies the ornamental post of the Chief Surveyor,since the times of the British.But the rules made vide the Meta Manual have created ample scope of cushy cum bossy jobs in the headquarters of the DG Shipping and the MMD is virtually bereft of it,thanks may be mainly due to Dr. Mishra as I was told by a GM of the SCI. One does’nt know whether this needs a ratification and amendment in the Act.But the rule itself does need a looking- into for its efficacy in the above light of neglect of the problem on the Orissa coast,by the CS,in the aftermath of the tragedy.
2 I recall sailing on Tankers and of the SOPEP drills conducted there,regularly,using primitive devices for containg Oil-spreading technology with large encircling Oil-booms with oil absorbing saw-dust and mats or oil dispersants(which was on the verge of being banned) and eventually the oily water to be sucked-out of sea if a pump could be made available from shore-side with a vessel for collection of the same like in the case of the Orissa muck-up,presently. A report from a deputy chief Surveyor is the call of the day and high alert for the Chief Surveyor and battery of his able Surveyors to stop such ships from entering their territorial –jurisdictions on the long Indian coast of nearly 7500kms-plus.
Thanking you.
Yours Truly
Suresh Pratap Singh
Marine Chief Engineer
Ph.:022-27745804
Mob.09935398306
Email:singhsp65@yahoo.com
Singh.suresh99@gmail.com
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