TN Pandey had some interesting experiences during his long tenure in the Indian Revenue Service
IT was peer pressure and ease of doing studies which brought Triloki Nath Pandey, son of Chandra Nath Pandey, an accounts officer in British India Corporation at Kanpur, to Indian Revenue Service (IRS).
Pandey was teaching commerce in DAV college, Kanpur, when he appeared for Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination for the IRS in 1954.
“Being a lecturer, I got three months of annual vacation and had college library at my disposal. Moreover, all my friends and peers appeared in the examination. Two of them, in fact, made it to the IRS and one made to the IPS in the same year”, TN Pandey, now 85, recollects.
After joining IRS as probationer, he could not take up the next year’s IAS examination (with two extra papers) because of the rule at the relevant time that those, who wish to take up IAS examination, will have to resign from their present Central Service job. He could not take that risk. Hence, continued in the Revenue Service.
His first posting as Class I ITO was in Nagpur (Maharashtra) followed by stints in Sitapur, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Union Ministry of Finance. Subsequently he was sent on deputation to Calcutta as Joint Director (Inspection and Investigation) in Department of Company Affairs. During the twoand-a-half years of his posting, he detected a number of frauds in the public and private sector through his common sensical approach.
During inspection of receipts of a jute company, he found that it paid wages to most of its labourers after taking their thumb impressions. Only a few had signed against the payments. One of the signatories happened to be one Vimal Das. Pandey knew Bengalis do not use word V and instead write B for it. He confronted the management with this and the bogus nature of payment was accepted. Subsequently, he found a large number of other bogus payments shown as wages. He reported the matter to Company Law Board, which, in turn penalised the company.
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