Venkateswarlu

Venkateswarlu was a clerk like but few years senior to me. He got his appointment under reservation quota. But who ever come for him ask if reddygaaru was there.So everyone knew that just for the sake of employment he manipulated as SC/ST Candidate. But keeting this aside he was anice person ,jovial all the time. He did not have much working knowledge.During summer, electricity failure was very common and bank was not provided with generators during those times. So in the afternoon, he used to take off his shirt and work whenever there was electriciy failure.He also had weakness for women it seems. Because our other staff members used to say that he would kiss at the photos of woman borrowers ,because we used to take photos of borrowers along with loan applications in those days also.

He went to write promotion test as soon as he got the eligibilty. In those days it was written test ,some objective and some essay type questions.There was no multiple choice question paper,. He used to make sure that intelligent friends of him sit around him in the examination hall so that each one would help him in answering all the questions. Because he was a reservation candidate, he got eligibilty by completion of four years of service only.Some how ,either by hook or crook ,he passed the written exam and got selected as an officer very soon.

He worked in Bombay for a term and returned back to Nellore as an officer. He used to tell us frankly. He did not have any working knowledge.If anything went wrong,clerk and officer had to bear 50/50 %. So if we wanted to save our loss of 50% we should be alert and more careful, because he would sign blindly whatever we did in good faith.

We were not angry with him because ,it was his sincere request and we knew him since when he was a clerk .Her wife was workin at DKW COLLEGE AS a record assistant or something. He got transferred to Mumbai and his wife to someother place. So their daughter was kept in DKW college and staying at the hostel .She fell in love with a brahmin boy who was her classmate and they eloped. Then their parents got them married. They had a son soon and we were invited for his baarasaala.Later , Venkateswarlu took VRS and led a retired life.