Less than a Minute Life Lesson-2407 Character and Competency

          K.Kamaraj a True Servant Leader-Part-9

 Stewardship-Serving for a cause 

Stewardship-Taking responsibility for the action of the team members, being accountable and serving others are the qualities of others. To lead the above seven qualities is not possible without the eight-quality called- Stewardship.

There are many situations that proves Kamaraj’s Stewardship and here are few occasions to prove his Stewardship:

Kamaraj removed the controversial family vocation based Hereditary Education Policy introduced by Rajaji. He reopened the 6000 schools closed earlier for financial reasons and also added 12000 more schools. The State made immense strides in education and trade. New schools were opened, so that poor rural students were to walk no more than 3 miles (4.8 km) to their nearest school. Better facilities were added to existing ones. No village remained without a primary school and no panchayat without a high school. Kamaraj strove to eradicate illiteracy by introducing free and compulsory education up to the eleventh standard

All Leadership crisis at the national level was spearheaded and well handled by Kamaraj despite of internal conflicts, a man who believed in people first. Let it be farmers crisis or weavers’ crisis, he made his officers to come with solutions rather than problems.

When he was defeated in the election, he neither played the blame game nor proved the winning party wrong, he took the reasonability of the defeat and immediately got into action in building Indian National congress.

From the above incidents it is clear that Kamaraj has lived the eight characteristics of a Servant Leader- Stewardship

  

By: M.L. Narendra Kumar