Chambers 20th Century Dictionary defined autonomy 'the power or right of self-government, especially partial self-government: the doctrine that the human will carries its guiding principle within itself.' I have quoted this because we have struggled for the fulfillment of the erstwhile decisions of the governing body of cwrdm which was flayed in the appointment of Shri K V Vijayan as Internal Auditor, which was a deputation post as per the decision of Governing Body of cwrdm-an autonomous research Institute. Today he retired from his service along with smt K Radha and I wish them a healthy, happy, peaceful and prosperous retired family life.
Shri K V Vijayan worked in cwrdm as Internal Auditor on deputation from Kerala Electricals and Allied Engineering company Limited, Palakkad for about two years. In fact, Internal Auditor post was kept as a deputation post in cwrdm in order to discharge the duties impartially and without yielding to the pressures of higher authorities and as per the 'Rules relating to Recruitment and Promotion of Administrative Staff of cwrdm' the mode of appointment of Internal Auditor post reads as follows : 'By deputation of a suitable officer having 10 years of experience in auditing from Local Fund Audit/AG's office(Audit)'. But cwrdm authorities violated the existing rules and decided to fill internal Auditor post as permanent and invited applications through order No SS-79/98 dated 17-3-98 by the Registrar, cwrdm. Seeing the News Paper advertisement, we approached the authorities and pointed out the irregularities and defects of the decision. But all the decisions were pre-calculated and Shri K V VIjayan joined in cwrdm as Internal Auditor on11-12-1998 , which was an all India Strike Day called by Leftist Trade Unions.
CWRDM is an autonomous research institute established by Government of Kerala in 1978. This autonomy was misused by the authorities in oneway or the other. Shri K V Vijayan was appointed as permanent internal auditor when cwrdm rules insisted strictly that it should be a deputation post. When we brought it to the notice of authorities, when they called the application through news papers, they promised us they will abide by rules. But things went on contrary and cwrdm authorities appointed Shri K V Vijayan as a permanent Internal Auditor. Hence cwrdm Staff Federation, under the leadership of Com C P Balan Vaidyer(late), started agitation against violation of recruitment rules, corruption, misuse of autonomy and flaying of rules and regulations. This struggle went on for 427days and by that time Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri E K Nayanar on 22nd July 1999 pronounced in the Kerala Legislative assembly that the appointment of Shri K V Vijayan as internal auditor is against the rules and regulations, and the Executive Committee of cwrdm is directed to take stringent actions against the guilty authorities. In Malayalam it reads as follows: കോഴിക്കോട് ജില്ലയില്‍ കുന്നമാങ്ങലത് പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചുവരുന്ന cwrdm-ഇല്‍ ഇന്റെര്‍ണല്‍ ഓടിട്ടരെ നിയമിച്ചതില്‍ ചട്ടങ്ങളും നിയമങ്ങളും ലങ്കിചിട്ടുല്ലതായി സര്കാരിന്ട ശ്രദ്ധയില്‍ പെട്ടിടുണ്ട് . ഈ നിയമനമെടക്കം പ്രസ്തുതസ്ഥപനത്തില്‍ നടന്നിട്ടുള്ള ക്രമാവിരുധനടപടികള്‍ക്കു ഉത്ടരവാധികളായ ഉദ്യോഗസ്തന്മാരുട പേരില്‍ കര്സനമായ സിക്ഷനനടപടികള്‍ സ്വീകരിക്കുന്നതിനു cwrdm-ന്റെ എക്സിക്യൂട്ടീവ് കമ്മറ്റിക്ക് നിര്‍ദേശങ്ങള്‍ നല്‍കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. On that proclamation we withraw the struggle. But instead of taking actions against the miscreants, STEC directed cwrdm to terminate Shri KV Vijayan from the service and before reaching the order in cwrdm he moved to the Honorable High Court of Kerala and obtained a Stay. Thus the authorities who done the wrong deeds were spared and the innocent was targeted for crucification. This was against our ethics and we dropped the matter and now Shri K V Vijayan has retired from his service. I have recollected all these matters only because he mentioned this matter in his retirement speech in the concluding session of the function organised by cwrdm cultural organisation Tarangam. Personally we have no grudges or illwill towards Shri K V Vijayan but respect only. His wife is a professor in Guruvayurappan College, Calicut and they have one daughter and one son.
Smt Radha was working in cwrdm as casual labour before our Prime Minister Shri Morarjee Desai laid foundation stone for the establishment of cwrdm in Calicut by shifting it from 'Rangit', Pattam, Thiruvananthapuram. Shri Morarjee Desai laid foundation stone of cwrdm on 1st January 1979 in Kottamparamba, Kozhikode. After a lot of struggle Smt K Radha was inducted in to general worker category on 4th July 1995 and allowed other service benefits like Scale of pay,CPF, leaves etc as given in PWD. Her husband is a cotract worker and they have two sons and one married daughter.
with best wishes
ktv
