MOT exams are back-breaking for old-age parents.

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