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Chapter 14 - 14. CHECKING OVERMANNING

High manpower was a serious problem, that to non working types and majority in higher age brackets, the outcome of hiding of actual age at the time of recruitment.Their wrong doing was taking toll and we borrowed costly money as bank loan to remove extra and non-performing persons with the VRS scheme approved by the government. Many mishaps in the form of killing of VRS taking employees and duping by near relations were reported, and we took extra pain to get deposited the money in their banks. Also we trained them in new skills if they desired to work and earn before actual separation at company's expense, and also encouraged formation of co-operatives who were given smaller value contracts on preferential basis and taught them to run the business with regular guidance and assistance. This could be successful in a very limited way but whosoever applied, got some success despite the higher age group in reality. No earnest money was taken at one time and deducted in installments from their bills. This was greatly appreciated. Manpower was lowered by twenty five hundred leaning most profit centers and supervision in one way or other was possible. This demanded more involvement of executives and they were forced to give up adherence to designations and work on equal levels. All jobs were to be performed by anyone through quick switching over in needs.

Initially they resisted but were forced when their own survival became important and good understanding developed in a short time. I planned a family get-together on my visit to different places and wives came forward to thank me for the healthy changes in their life, which I accepted humbly and sincerely, responding with kind words of appreciation for their true efforts in this direction. Our thrust of getting orders regularly continued and the order book was improving. I touched the level of nine hundred crore while I aimed for one thousand in my tenure of two years.