Former Chairman Sri JRJoshi ,Actuary no more.

Former Chairman Sri JRJoshi ,Actuary no more.

 Friends, it is easy to judge but difficult to analyze impartially .Emotions & present experience of prolonged delay in dispensation of justice by Courts & SC may also cloud our vision. But words hurled or arrows sped cannot be taken back. Sri JRJoshi was our respected & revered Chairman .Remember he was an Actuary & an eminent one at that. 

If Matriculation is a big botheration for the Indian population whose main occupation is cultivation , Actuarial Science is a big botheration for the insurance men too of administration & marketing!!

When I joined LIC as a 2nd Batch DR, after Sri Nozer Homji it was JRJ as SDM & then Sri SVNarayanan retired voluntary & settled in wonderful famous NanaNani Homes in COIMBATORE . We used to meet him in marriages here .They are happy & contented. SVN is pre 1986 Retiree & a pittance LIC &GOI offers.

    JRJ had always a smiling face, he detested mediocrity He was exemplary in his decisions. His elucidations on insurance was simple & understandable.He greets, he responds. Simplification with Standardisation & 247 private companies hydraheaded like we all faced in early years of the Corporation . It is to the credit of such Leaders then who breathed vitality & creativity & semblance of uniformity they could weave so well . In that sense he was original. 

    Few years before in one Episode of actor AmirKhan in forenoon on TV , Mrs Seetha Kishore remembers vividly & I remember vaguely that Mr & Mrs JRJ appeared & Mrs RBK says authentically that after the death of his beloved wife, as JRJ did not like going abroad where his sons were settled, it is they who after consent of dad , had married a gracious lady as his consort & the discussions on Elders & Seniors became gripping with life's varied incidents of cheers & smiles & so too sadness & tears. Old age chastens , they said & path uncertain becomes smoother & all should respect the retired & the old,older & oldest 

    All cannot become a Messiah or emulate record performers .It was said of then ZM, WZ Sri Gajanan Hiralal Thakore (GHT) that when he was ZM ,WZ became the Leader & No 1, Chairman asked him to go to SZ then lagging behind . GHT did a Hattrick with his inspiring ' Karenge Karenge Karthe Rahenge ' & he asserted the same thunderous slogan in SZ & believe me, performed the hattrick in SZ too .

   Sri JRJ prepared under his stewardship an eminent Booklet on Insurance & Actuarial Science & shape of things to come in a beautiful, glossy ,attractive Booklet for the World Conference . Envy at Sri JRJ for the costly & expensive Booklet , questioned by MOF/GOI , as one who valued Dignity & Reputation as a Treasure but strangely wrong emphasis without noticing its immense educative value , JRJ immediately put in his papers & resigned 

   Let us salute such courageous persons who really were beacons of light & thoughts 

May his soul Rest In Peace .May the Almighty shower strength & fortitude to his family in this hour of bereavement 

      I flashed the news to ZM, RMPIR, ED Personnel to be aware of his passing away .

Mournfully, 

RBKISHORE