Kerala has pride of place in India which many so called self proclaimed advanced states would struggle to compete in skills, professionalism and integrity. During period 1991-98 for seven years I had been to Cochin several times and happen to stay one to two months each occasion on assignment for dry docking at Cochin Shipyard ( @cslcochin) for vessels owned by my company. Those were times when private sector in large scale ship building and repairs had not really built capacity and pubic sector Cochin Shipyard was perhaps one of the largest and best available. CSL employed hundreds perhaps thousands of workers, and engineers working simultaneously on several ships on its dry-docks and jetties. Whole experience of workmanship, integrity and discipline I encountered at CSL during those days had been unique and unforgettable to this day. Our ship was specialised technical vessel built at France for saturation diving and geotechnical investigation and several expats used to work onboard. It was pleasingly astonishing to see simple ordinary appearing workers possessing world class professionalisms providing successful solutions which that time we used to consider hiring from abroad otherwise. I remember one rigger Manoharan who used to install critical heavy equipments like thrusters with such an ease and dexterous accomplishment that all that used to appear magical and we used to watch those installations with awe like sitting in a theatre. Much later after decades I learned that Manoharan had won several accolades including for work on aircraft carrier.
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