Last evening we listened to one of the most coveted heroes in ecl , mr js gil , the person who led the rescue of 65 trapped miners in mahabir colliery in 1989. It’s the well known fact that in coal companies, specially in all those hazardous old underground mines once some journalist said the terrainal death traps, chivalry, charisma and organised common sense prevail over technology or so called management theory. Mahabir saga of rescue operation was an amazing story line where teamwork got blended with individual excellence , where coordination get connected to commaradeership and where the leadership does not get brewed in corner room of closed door strategy formation meeting with pinned up , high brow management wizards rather its being exuded in the front line and if needed down underground . As repeatedly I explained although it’s in a very crudest form, but coal mines are real crucible of leadership, mr gill’s volunteering to go down though a claustrophobic capsule in its most raw form of shape through the narrow borehole down the mine to make the trapped miners for 70 long hours to reach the surface one by one was showcasing the intrinsic strength of the organisation on which it looms large for last three and half decades. The whole machinery was put into the work, the people down the hierarchy just assert to their best in the crisis and on top of that the same people who sometimes appeared to be addicted to chaos just put their brain together to work against all the odds in the crisis time. As I saw in different times of my stint in the fields, crisis just shows us how much we are united, how much we think concerted instead of least organisational training input , and lastly how much we feel dedicated for the cause of the human being which apparently not been detectable in normal hours. Mr Gill has brought the DVD with him to showcase the recorded rescue operation where at one stage the camera set the lens on the faces of our relieved workers getting out of the boreholes capsules one by one some in devastated and some in bit exhausted state of physic and mind. And amongst them suddenly one smile flashed in front of the camera, a worker who just moved out of the hole and grinned with a deep breath and thousand lumens smile just pervades over the crowd. And the same smile I can recollect I saw lots of time when our workers comes out of the super strenuous as well as risky ventures into those deep pits after long working hours. The sun rays just flickers on their otherwise pale eyes, tired with exhaustion but beaming with joy coming to the surface while pledging complete submission to our care and concern for them. These are the time I felt my deep attachment to these people for whom many a times I discovered my purpose of life there with them. In fact when I retrospect the long 18 years of work in the field, these smiles, these grins and this innocuous submission of those workers towards our execution and managing, I felt a very close bond with the organisation instead of its different woes and worries. My friends I realised so many times in my job in this tough-land of coal companies , we are here to keep these thousand lumen smiles keep wider.Whether safety or security , wealth or wisdom its our noble mission to warrant them to our employees all the time.