welcome to new financial year

Friday, April 1, 2011BEGIINING OF THE NEW FINANCIAL YEAR
HI ALL,
THERE WAS CELEBRATION AROUND, MUSIC IN AIR AND A SENCE OF UPLIFTMENT IN EVERY ONE, WHEN THE NEWS OF CROSSING BUSINESS MIX OF 250000 CRORES WAS ANNOUNCED.THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT A NEW FINANCIAL YEAR COULD NOT HAVE BEGUN ON A BETTER FOOTING.

THE FACT THAT THE ATTAINMENT CAME, IN MY TENTH YEAR OF MANAGING THE BALANCE SHEET WAS SWEET.AT THE SAME TIME, THE RECOGNITION THAT THIS IS GOING TO MY LAST ASSOCIATION WITH THE YEAR END BALANCE SHEET OF THE BANK (THIS BEING MY YEAR OF RETIREMENT) WAS ALWAYS OCCUPYING TEH BACK OF MY MIND.

THAT GAVE A MIXED FEELING WHICH I WAS NOT ABLE TO DECIPHER OR PINPOINT TILLNOW. I DECIDED TO SHARE MY FEELINGS ON THE EVE OF NEW FINANCIAL YEAR WITH MY FELLOW COLLEGUES THRU THE INTRA MAIL FACILITY AND THEN I WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE BY THE OVERWHELMING AND HONEST RESPONSES RECEIVED BT ME.I AM JUST TABULATING A FEW OF THEM BELOW, NOT WITH A VIEW TO MAKE THIS BLOG " A SELF PRAISING " PLATFORM ,BUT TO ASSERT TO MY SELF THAT MY INNINGS SO FAR HAD REALLY WON ME A STREAM OF ADMIRERS,WELL WISHERS AND MOST OF THEM HAVE CHOSEN ME TO BE ROLE MODEL (possibly seeing the brighter side of me alone!!).

THE COMMENTS CAN BE SUMMED UP IN THREE CATEGORIES:

1.AN EXPRESSION OF SURPRISE AND DISBELIEF ON MY ANNOUNCEMENT ,THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE MY RETIREMENT YEAR.MOST OF THEM POINTED OUT THAT I DO NOT LOOK LIKE 60 AND AT BEST I CAN BE OF THE AGE OF 55 OR SO AND I AM JOKING .

2.THERE WERE WISHES TO THE EFFECT THAT RETIREMENT AGE BE INCREASED SO THAT I BECOME ELEVATED AS GM AND RETIRE AS GM.

3.THIRD CATEGORY WHO ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT I AM DUE FOR RETIREMENT, EXPRESSING CONFIDENCE THAT I WILL BE RETIANED BY THE BANK FOR MY EXPERTISE OF BALANCESHEET MANAGEMENT (IS THERE ONE SUCH !!) AND FOR TAKING FORWARD IFRS IMPLEMENTATION IN DAYS TO COME.

ON GOING THRU THE VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF RESPONSE, I WAS ABLE TO PIN POINT MY FEELINGS MORE PRECISELY. IT WAS A FEELING OF GRATITUDE AND GREATFULNESS BUNDLED INTO ONE, MARKED HOWEVER BY A TINGE OF SORROW.GRATITUDE TO THE INSTITURION WHICH HAS MADE ME WHAT I AM TODAY (THOUGH THERE COULD BE WISH FUL THINKING TAHT IT OUGHT TO BE MUCH MORE BETTER), GRATEFULNESS TO COLLEGUES AND SUPERIORS WHO HAD PUT UP WITH ME (DESPITE ALL MY TANTRUMS, OUTBIRSTS ETC SEEING ONLY THE POSITIVE SIDE IN ME) AND TINGE OF SORROW BECAUSE I AM DESTINED TO BID FARE WELL THIS YEAR TO ALL GOOD THINGS AROUND.

THE TRAVEL WAS LONG.CHALLENGES FACED WERE MANY. LIMITATIONS CROSSED WERE COUNTLESS.FROM A MEAGRE PROFIT OF AROUND RS 42 CRORES (WHEN I ENTERED THE BALANCE SHEET DEPARTMENT A DECADE BACK) THE PROFITS SURGED TO 4 FIGURES IN 2007.A REMARKABLE ATTAINMENT. THEN FOLLOWED A PERIOD OF CONSOLIDATION AND AGAIN THE BUSINESS MIX CROSSED 250000 CRORES BY 31/3/2011.NO DOUBT A TIME TO REJOICE.THE FACT THAT WE CROSSED MANY HURDLES IN THIS JOURNEY AND SOME OF THEM MAY NOT EVEN BE KNOWN TO EVEN TO PEOPLE WHO MATTER, BUT HAD BEEN SILENTLY HANDLED AND CONQURED AT OUR LEVELS ITSELF ADD DIGNITY TO OUR ROLE FUNCTIONS.I COULD NOT BUT RECALL MYDEAR FRIEND JANARDHANA REDDY AT THIS POINT OF TIME WHO WAS WITH ME IN THIS JOURNEY FOR ALLMOST 6 YEARS WHEN WE STOOD SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN TACKLING EVERY ISSUE WHICH WE CAME BY.SPECIAL CREDITS ALSO TO RS,SV,KR,P AND AR WHO IN THIER OWN WAY MADE THE WORKING ATMOSHERE INTERESTING AND LIVELY.

I NOW MOVE ON WITH CONTENTMENT, A SENCE OF SATISFACTION AND A PRIDE IN HAVING ACHIEVED WHAT I WANTED TO ACHIEVE. I HAVE LEARNT NOT TO GAUGE MY WORK WITH THE REWARDS WHAT I GOT, BUT BY SELF INTROSPECTION AND SELF APPRAISAL AND THAT LEAVES ME WITH A DISTINCT SENCE OF PEACE AND SOLITUDE.

THANKS AND REGARDS TO ALL THOSE MADE IT POSSIBLE INCLUDING SUPERIORS WHOSE WARMTH AND AFFECTION I ENJOYED IN PLENTY.
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Labels: CAREER, FRIENDS, Peace, RETIREMENT, SELF INTROSPECTION