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Some things are destined to happen, whether we believe or we don't. But I do believe this book is a part of God's larger plan, I never chose to be Inspector General (IG Prisons). I never even sounded, leave aside being asked. Till I joined this position, I was on a compulsory wait. I waited for a posting for nine months after a full police tenure as Deputy Inspector General of Police in Mizoram, in the North-East of India. The Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, took its time to decide for me- it was a 'paid wait'. I was informed that only after the department concerned was told by the Auditor's office, that I could not be indefinitely 'paid to wait', that I was suddenly 'fixed'.
The post of IG (Prisons), Delhi, was lying vacant for many months. No one appeared to have been interested in getting posted there, and whoever was posted there, managed to stay away. In all fairness, I ought to have gone back to Delhi Police but the entrenched stalwarts were overstaying and would not make way. I was, therefore, a perfect 'forced fit', and to some the right place to be 'dumped in. In our impressions prison postings are dead ends and also called 'punishment postings'. To many I was rightly placed to get the message across that furrowing new tracks do not necessarily get you on the road to 'privileged positions'.
ISBN:9788120724440
