DANGER OF ANIMALS IN BOILER OFFICE DANGER OF SNAKES IN NAGPUR BOILER OFFICE

I had been yesterday to the National Academy of Defence Production, Ordnance Factory, Ambazari Nagpur. On my way from Sai Mandir, Wardha Road, I could not get a Chemist Shop up to a Labour Institute near the Joint Director Boiler office, Nagpur. The medical shop next to Boiler Office was not a big one, but my driver could get a medicine, which helped me at large to stop dysentery. It is a small medical shop, but a chemist is a lady and is a verstile doctor plus chemist , the driver told. The car belonged to his organisation to whose owner I asked to help me.
Take a U turn. I asked him and drove at the wrong gate, which was closed for repairs. He reveresed the car, and we barged insight. Joint Director of Boiler is at the back side but in the same comound. It is open space for serpent’s to move told me last time by Dy. Director Chaudhari, the officers in charge at the time of Corona. Last time, I had gone there by the scooter and made me aware of snakes in that big compound of the labour Institute compound by Mr. Chaudhari, Dy. Director of Boiler, Govt. of Maharashtra.
Today, after corona-2019, I visited the office after a long spell. Received by the staff of Boiler Department which mostely appointed at the time of Late M.G.Bhatia, the then Joint Director of Boiler and well known to me from the day of their intial days of appointments. To day the office was clean, but it was like a cage since it was guarded with Iron JALI-DOORS. Definitely, it is to stop Snakes entry inside the office … I recalled my memories. The oppointed lady clerk at that time may be an office superintendent now met with an accident, I witnesse her office entry along with one her companion, a bag and a water bottle in her companion’s hand. She followed by her with no diatance. What happened! … mate with an accident, she replied… went inside of the cage door and sat in her chair. I followed her by opening the ZALI DOOR and showed her my sympathies for an accident.
Decided to move from the office, since no officer called me a visitor to visit. I gave my another card to another lady clerk to hand over it to Dy. Director, who met me at the PWD office, and was kind enough to ask me to come for a tea. Before that, he met me in the Directors office, at Mumbai. There also he asked me to visit him at Nagpur. But alas, he was not available today.
I am in Nagpur Boiler’s Office, where I used to respect by an Ex- officers from the days of office was at Sadar, near Liberty Talkie. How they had been drove out by then Landlord Mr. Tuli. At that time, there was a team of Mr. Gadre and Mr. Wankhede, I remembered. Mr. Tuli closed their water first and then locked all the urinals to force them to vacate the premises.
So, here I was there standing in the cage, looking for the snakes around me. Frightened deep for any untoward incidents to me. Got out from the cage. Opened the ZALI DOOR and came out in open space. But again, my blood got cold, lungs thundered, body heated with high temperature. With the by gone days stories of an animal who roamed in the area for a week who came there from the nearby forest. To move in the open ground, there was a danger again of forest animal and again from inside officer. To whom I faced at his last posting at Solapur.
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