THE BEST BRAINEE,KERALA HAS EVER PRODUCED

 RAJU NARAYANASWAMY IAS

First Rank in State in Secondary School Examination

(MD Seminary High School , Kottayam)

First Rank in University in Plus Two

(SB Collge, Changanassery)

First Rank in IIT Entrance Examination

First Rank in All India IIT Computer Science

First Rank in IAS Entrance Examination

First Rank in IAS Training Institute

On passing out from IIT Chennai Mr. Narayanaswamy was

offered scholarship by the prestigious Massachusetts

Institute of Technology , USA . He who came from a

middle class family believed that he had a moral

obligatio n to give something in return for the lakhs

of rupees the government spent on him as an IIT

student. He had the intelligence and conviction to

realize that this money came also from the poorest of

the poor - who pay up the excise duty on textiles when

they buy cloth, who pay up customs, excise and sales

tax on diesel when they travel in a bus, and in

numerous other ways indirectly pay the government. So

he decided to join IAS hoping he could do something

for the people of this country. How many young men

have the will power to resist such an offer from USA ?

Narayanaswamy did never look at IAS as a black money

spinner as his later life bears testimony to this

fact.

After a decade of meritorious service in IAS, today,

Narayanaswamy is being forced out of the IAS

profession. Do you know why?

A real estate agent wanted to fill up a paddy field

which is banned under law. An application came up

before Narayanaswamy who was sub collector the, for an

exemption from this rule for this plot of land. Upon

visiting the site he found that the complaint from 60

poor families that they will face water logging due to

the waste water from a nearby Government Medical

College if this paddy field was filled up was correct.

Narayanswamy came under intense political pressure but

he did what was right - refused permission for filling

up the paddy field. That was his first confrontation

with politicians.

Soon after his marriage his father-in-law closed down

a public road to build compound wall for his plot of

land. People approached Narayanaswamy with complaint.

When talking with his own father-in-law did not help,

he removed the obstructing wall with police help. The

result, his marriage broke up.

As district Collector he raided the house of a liquor

baron who had defaulted Rupees 11 crores payment to

government and carried out revenue recovery. A

Minister directly telephoned him and ordered to return

the forfeited articles to the house of the liquor

baron. Narayanswamy politely replied that it is

difficult. The minister replied that Narayanaswamy

will suffer.

In his district it was a practice to collect crores of

rupees for earthen bunds meant for poor farmers,but

which were never constructed. A bill for rupees 8

crores came up before Narayanaswamy. He inspected the

bund. He found it very weak and said that he will pass

the bill after the rainy season to ensure that the

bund served the purpose. As expected the earthen bund

was too weak to stand the rain and it disappeared in

the rain. But he created a lot of enemies for saving 8

crores public money.

The net result of all such unholy activities was that

he was asked to go on leave by the government. Later

such an illustrious officer was posted as "State

Co-Ordinator, Quality Improvement Programme for

Schools". This is what the politician will do to a

honest officer with backbone - post him in the most

powerless position to teach him a lesson. Since he

found that nothing can be achieved for the people if

he continued with the State Service he opted for

central service. But that too was denied on some

technical ground. What will you do when you have a

brilliant computer career anywhere in the world you

choose with the backing of several advanced technical

papers too published in international journals to your

credit? When you are powerless to do anything for the

people, why should you waste your life as the

Co-Ordinator for a Schools Programme?

Mr. Narayanaswamy is on the verge of leaving IAS to go

to Paris to take up a well paid United Nations

assignment. The politicians can laugh thinking another

obstacle has been removed. But it is the helpless

peo ple of this country who will lose – not

Narayanaswamy. But you have the power to support

capable and honest bureaucrats like Narayaswamy,

G.R.Khairnar and Alphons Kannamthanam who have

suffered a lot under self seeking politicians who rule

us.

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