Others from IIT

[D K Jain]

Further I was not the only one from IITs to opt for SBI. I know about 2-3 dozen of them.

Some Very good. The driving factor were two. Lack of good jobs for engineers during that era (one must thank mrs gandhi and her policies for that?), and a good package offered by SBI. Very few private sector coy offered that kind of remuneration, only some did. Box wallas.

Well, that is not a complete answer, but it is as close to the truth as it can be.

DK Jain AGE/66/280.

PS...

Raju first joined Dena Bank, then went to a marvellous British Christian organisation AFPRO, action for food production. A sensible guy chose to drill wells in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Became a foremost water expert. Later on took over as Director of AFPRO.

I have many letters sent by him those days, description of his life there is beatific.

Parimal Vahalia ended up with Indian Bank. MK Sen, the Nehru Hall football goalkeeper was with a bank, perhaps Bank of India. S Kuppuswami too was with Bank of India and was once found working in their Tokyo branch in mid eighties. Later on , he strayed into AFCONs, a Shapurji Pallonji company, a global construction coy.

Thanks to Harsh Maheshwari I met BJ Dey in 1992 . He had been working for SBI and later on left it after working for a long time. We had two 1967 batch colleagues in Azad Both of whom joined SBI unknown to me and we met in 1991-92, just after I moved to Mumbai. Pramod khandelwal was AgE and Prithis Dutta was electrical. Both of them were close friends ever since (along with Harsh M, who is also a resident of Mumbai just like them 2) and we met often enough after 1992. Even now, whenever I go to Mumbai, I always try and meet the trio.

Last such was in February 2025, when I was able to meet Kuppuswami and Bhishma Dev together. I took a day off and went to Pune to meet Raju, SK Gupta, and MC Gupta.

DKJ