SBMPC - General Secretary Report General Secretary’s Report Pranams to every one of you. I owe every one of you gratitude. Thanks, infinite. Our Central Committee craves for condoning the delay in conducting this Conference, which was due on the 29th September, 2015. Our Central Committee recognizes the magnanimity of members of our Commune. I would proceed further, if you condone the delay. On behalf of Central Committee of State Bank of Mysore Pensioners’ Commune, I am presenting saga of our toil, efforts, successes, achievements, benefits, accomplishments, short-comings, victories, failures, and pains during last four years. I am placing this report for you to dissect, debate, argue and suggest. We should also be creating a Blue print of our activities for next term. Dear Sirs and Madams, when someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes the treasure. Still, it is painful. Simply, it is impossible to fill the Vacuum. The most painful Goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained. During last four years more than 250 of our friends, ex-colleagues, superiors, sub- ordinates, gurus and shishyas, are not with us. They have reached heavenly abode. We shall all join together to pray. SBMPC dips its banner in honour of the departed colleagues and Let the departed souls rest in peace. We are fortunate. Unlike earlier terms, we lost only one member of our Committee, Shri Srikantaiah. Ever smiling and always helpful Shri Srikantaiah was member of Central Committee of our Commune. He was Mr.Dependable. All of us were fortunate to have such persons as members of our Committee. But, it is unfortunate to lose such a person. During last four years, we have lost many eminent personalities. The list is very long. But, some of them are : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer, R J Sridharan, N Sampath, A.B. Bardhan, Chavez, Margarat Thatcher, Lalgudi Jayaraman, T.M.Soundararajan, Mohan Dharia, G P Deshpande, S S Thiagarajan, Satyapal Dang, Dr.Narendra Dabholkar, Pran Chopra, Anjali Devi, M.V.G.Nair, U.R.Ananthamurthy, Benoy Konar, N.Mahalingam, Phillip Hughes, K.Balachandar, P.S.L.M.Haragopal P.B.Srinivas Rao, Dilip Mukherjee (RRB), J.S.Varma, Samar Mukherjee, Sarojini Varadappan, J.S.Bhatnagar, Veliam Bhargavan, 1 SBMPC - General Secretary Report T.K.Dutta, Nelson Mandela, G.S.Shivarudrappa, Parvathi Krishnan, R.Umanath, Attun burrough, Mandalin Srinivas, Kushwant Singh, Deven Verma, R.K.Laxman, Shakunthala Devi, Manna Dey B.P.Bajpai, R.A.Mittal, Sis Ram Ola, Kali Ghosh, N.K.Swamy, Dr.Shanthi Patel, Bipan Chandra, Som Benegal, Rajam Krishnan, A.R.Antulay, C.R.Venkateswaran, Nagoor Hanifa, Lee Kuan Yew P.S. Gopalakrishna Pillai, M .S.Viswanathan, Manorama Sharad Joshi A.B.Bardhan A.Nageswara Rao Gopinath Mundhe S.K.Vyas Govind Pansare, Noorul Huda, Sadhana, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Ritu Panighom, Sushil Koirala, B.N.Nagarajan, Kannada Writer Kalburgi, K.G. Kamath, Ritupani Ghosh, Kamala Ramakrishnan, Bani Deshpande, Mrinalini Sarabhai, M.A.M. Ramasamy, Balram Jakhar, O.N.V.Kurup, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Saeed Jaffrey, Syed Zahoor Qasim, S. S. Tarapore, Nida Fazli, Sudhir Tailang, K.V.Krishna Rao, J.F.R. Jacob, Sarosh Homi Kapadia, Abdul Rashid Khan, Rajesh Vivek Upadhyay, V. Rama Rao, Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar, Ustad Sabri Khan, Ashok Singhal, Shankaran Nair, Lakshman Rao Mohite, G M Natarajan, We shall all join together to pray. Let the departed souls rest in peace. It is a custom and practice to thank those who had helped, in closing paras of General Secretary’s report. But, we have decided to set a new and desirable trend of thanking in the beginning of this report. It is they who are responsible for achievements during last four years. It is their support, advise and hard work, working shoulder to shoulder in achieving some positives for the benefit of members of our Commune. There are some who have helped me personally in discharging my duties as General Secretary. We shall take time to be thankful for everything that we have. We can always have more, but we could also have less ! Jennifer Gayle says : Find beauty in the things around you, choose patience and happiness, being thankful in this moment and appreciate all of the little things in life that mean so much. - Be still, see the bigger picture beyond yourself, see its beauty. Sometimes it takes hitting rock bottom for your eyes to be truly opened. Our members form the life line of our Commune. There is no Commune, without you. Your confidence in the Committee has given us immense strength to do very small things for you. Our Committee is aware that what we have done is nothing great in the backdrop of your support, your participation, your love and affection. Tremendous support we are receiving from our members gives us courage and conviction to serve them better. Today’s attendance has demonstrated our strength and we would proudly say our members are second to none in their Commitment. 2 SBMPC - General Secretary Report With your financial support and your presence in person have made our Organisation, one of the strongest Bank Retirees’ organisation. Everywhere, numbers matter. You have become member of our Commune and added numerical strength. When we requested you to strengthen our finances, you are generous. You are contributing your mite by giving standing instructions. Whenever, we have given a call to participate in Agitation program, you are present. In every such program every second person is our member. With your participation, you have strengthened our Commune. On behalf our Central Committee, thank you very much. As Prasad, personally, I would like to thank you. It is you who has made a nondescript person, what I am today. Thank you and Thank you very much. We owe our members, sincere thanks. Dear friends, entire committee joins me in thanking you. Thanks, a trillion. Management of our Bank, State Bank of Mysore should be thanked for every possible help. You have given us, everything what you can give. We understand, your limitations. You have given us many benefits, which many or most of other Banks have not given to their former employees. Every one of you have helped our members. You have given us space, both in your hearts and premises. Infinite thanks, sirs. Deputy General Managers, Chief Managers and every Officer and workman in Industrial Relations Dept., Pension, Gratutity Dept., & Provident Fund Department deserve special thanks. Contribution and help of Dr. K Lakshmisha, Director of our Bank and Shri Jayesha, General Manager is immense and helped us in every step and whenever we required their help. We thank both these gentlemen for their help and contribution. We thank Shri S C Jain, General Secretary, Shri Deshpande, President and Shri S V Srinivasan, Deputy General Secretaryof our Apex Organisation, All India Bank Retirees Federation, our Apex Organisation for all the advise, guidance and help. They value strength and contribution of our Commune. We are thankful to them. It is not only the Organisations, viz., SBM Employees’ Union and Associate Bank Officers’ Association – SBM Unit, but also leaders of these organisations, especially, Com S R Powar, General Secretary and Shri N Rangaswamy, President and every other leader of SBM Employees Union and Shri R Ramesh, General Secretary, 3 SBMPC - General Secretary Report Shri Harikrishna, President and every other leader of Associate Bank Officers’ Association – SBM Unit have treated our Commune as their own Organisation and helped us. They are with us. We are proud that we have such wonderful employees’ and officers’ organisations in our Bank, Mysore Bank. We thank them for everything they have done to us. I bow my head before every member of my Central Committee for standing with me through thick and thin, when our Commune had to face challenges. You never allowed dilution of our independence in functioning and with all humility at my command, I would say, thanks. Thank you very much. There is one gentleman, who retired along with me, way back in 2001. Today, he is there in the Office every day. Whether, General Secretary or President or the Treasurer, present in the Office or not, he is present. He has done every possible thing in helping each one of us. Thank you, Shri Ramachandra. He is 90 years young on next 1st December. He is working assiduously for our Commune, during last 21 years. His mere presence itself reminds that we are not old. We are so young. When he can, why not we ? Every one of us should thank Shri C E Sundar Rao, our Founder Treasurer. Thank you, Sir. Hats off !!!Your Commitment and sincerity. But, for his support and presence, perhaps I would not have spoken to you today. Therefore, I would like to thank you very much. Words in my vocabulary are not sufficient to thank him. Thank you Sir. Our President, Shri N Jagannathan is 87. Over 50 years of serving Bank Employees and retirees, is a great achievement. He is an iconic figure. His contribution by forming a Retirees’ Organisation, SBM Pensioners’ Commune and his continued service is also responsible for all of us being here. He continued to guide us. All of us join you in thanking him for his sacrifice and contribution. Most of Office Bearers of our Commune who are in Bangalore and involved in day today activities of our Commune do not have much of Trade Union experience. We need advice and guidance of those who have decades of experience. We had the privilege of Shri Ka Na Shri’s advice and guidance. We are thankful to him.