Silent Prayer

Silent Prayer 

An artisans programme was to start in Coimbatore (2015) and everyone stood up  for prayer. The record player  was tested earlier but right at the of nick of time, it did not function. Everyone was standing in silence. One second, 2 seconds and 3 seconds. Nothing happened. I could see some of my colleagues frantically trying to do something. Many of them closed their eyes for prayer hence it was not known to them what was happening. Few  seconds passed.

Some started  looking at me for the signal to sit.  I then looked at my officer who was on the PR desk and signaled to render a prayer song. She took up the challenge boldly without any hesitation and she did it. Everyone involved in organising the programme were relived. Some of them thought, the prayer  was organised in that way. Only we knew the story behind the curtains. The incident remained unfazed in my memory. 

BIS through these programmes had definitely helped large number of artisans in improving their technical knowledge in the area of melting, making solder and soldering, reducing the  loss, reducing pollution and creating awareness on Standards and Quality apart from Hallmarking. Shri Tirupathy Rajan, an Expert and Shri K.Anbarasu Sir then DDGS were always there to support these programmes.

We tried to organise many programmes as  much as  possible because unlike other programmes, these were improving the  techniques  deployed by the   artisans in melting process and also for improving the work environment more  than the purity of gold. That is the truth.