Last rites of M.C. Aggarwal, who had expired on 26.08.2016 were performed today. His funeral was held at sector - 29, Gurgaon, NCR today at 11.00 hrs.
About 25 of our colleagues were present during the cremation ceremony. Retired engineering officers included S/Sh R.K.Gupta, R.K.Jain, Ghanshyam, V.K.Singla, AV Swaminathan, HK Wadhwa, Mukul Tyagi, T.P.Singh, D.P. Singh, UN Anand, SS Bindra, P.S.Sundaram, Kailash Chand, KN Yadav, BB Sharma and Mahesh Prasad among others. Working officers included Shri P. Das, Pradeep Mehra, Rajender Kumar, RK Jain and PK Singh, who represented AIR and DD Engineers Association as it's President and Broadcast Engineering Society(I) as it's Hon. Secretary.
Later speaking to the Blog, Shri PK Singh stated that BES could timely confer the BES Life time Achievement Award on Shri MC Aggarwal by the hands of the Nobel laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi on 12 November, 2014, which he feels as one of the satisfying moments of his tenure. Hundreds of condolence messages have been received and the post of demise of MC Aggarwal has been read by over two thousand persons on PB Parivar blog. This clearly speaks of The Personality, The Life he lived - Bold, Upright and Straightforward. It is well said - Life should be Big not just Long...