TYPES OF FISHING...

For thousands of years, fishermen in China & Japan have been using the amazing fishing ability of the bird called the cormorant. Cormorants are long-necked diving birds with long, hooked bills. After catching the fish, they come up to the surface to eat it. Cormorants have been trained to catch fish from a boat and return to it. They are often tethered with a long cord and a leather collar around the throat prevents the bird from swallowing the catch. The fisherman gently squeezes the bird's neck so that it disgorges the fish...

 

Common Cormorants are among the world’s greediest birds. They swallow fishes of great size including  a 2.5 meter long eel, though they may die of exhaustion in doing so. Fishermen train these birds to catch fishes for their livelihood. In Sunderbans too, a few tribes do fishing with Cormorants...(https://youtu.be./JNEplaYZtpI)

There are so many big fishes (defaulters), which the Anti-Evasion and Audit Officers of our Department, by putting in their best efforts, in adverse working conditions, detect and issue SCNs. But the authorities, instead of garnering and safeguarding the revenue, play a negative role, which are coming to surface as each day passes. There is no check and balance at higher levels and complaints galore everywhere. The concern shown for revenue by the junior officers is too dedicated, while the same zeal is lacking at senior levels, barring a few.

Can the Administration adopt the method used in the case of Cormorants by the above said fishermen, to safeguard the revenue at higher levels. Trust, honesty, integrity, sincerity, reasonable belief etc. should not remain mere dictionary words, but the conduct and action of senior officers should speak for itself and reflect these qualities in the work they do, so that respect is automatically commanded and not demanded.

"Flowers blossom even in forests,

where there is nobody to admire their beauty"

 

Let us continue our good work honestly, even when nobody appreciates us.

 

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