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Chapter 15 - 15. PRESTIGIOUS PROJECTS

Two projects in Amritsar were very important; one was development of International Airport and second was a Museum on Sikh Gurus. I was chased by the aviation minister himself and second one was followed up by the Directorate of Museum, Government of India, which took me to the place when for the first time I visited historical Golden Temple and recollected facts about this important religious place, where one is forced to be a common man of the society served with standard Prasad etc. The project was being delayed as the engineering department was not releasing the technical details to work and also dispute of land, and the aviation department was booking all blames on our company. I had a discussion with the Project-in-Charge from the airport with a lot of persuasion and after wasting half a day and finalized the schedule of progress to be circulated within the next day. But this officer reported adversely passing on the blame once again on us and ignoring discussion all together for the reason that the local authority wanted to take away work from us and give it to some known relation and also applying penalty clauses. I wrote to the ministry who changed with the change of Government and my letter was totally ignored. The work order was taken away from us on the very first visit by the new minister after the first visit and also ordered not to give any future project to our company, and this battle continued for long without any result for us, and this also deprived us from one important infrastructure area of activities. The museum project progressed well where the local municipal corporation took interest to remove all obstacles and I placed an officer exclusively to complete the prestigious project which was coordinated by ED from Head Office with regular grumbles and moaning and our margin went down terribly on this project as per Director. Finance was brought to my notice several times and in several ways, which I ignored as this was a project that was important from a tourism angle, and I didn't count the loss of pennies for the same. My nationalist mind set guided me in many projects.