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individual projects/fellowships, activation of turned close friends in the PMD – Dileep, Smitha
Fellowships and preparation of fellowship claims, and Asha and together they make the place very
reconciliation of bank accounts on monthly friendly and accommodating for the students and
basis and uploading the UC & SE in the RGCB faculty.
portal under PFMS website. Every student and
faculty has a file of his/her own at PMD in which As any other Keralite, Preetha is also a fan of the
their personal and financial details are recorded, Mollywood actor Mohanlal, who also happens to
updated and maintained. After completing be a close relative from her maternal side. She
her graduation in mathematics from Kerala also enjoys the 90’s hindi melodies. Preetha is
University Preetha did a Post Graduate Dioploma married to Anup R and has two children Pournami,
in Computer Applications (PGDCA) and then an an aspiring microbiologist and Partha a tenth
MBA in project management. At RGCB, Preetha standard student in Christ Nagar school.
finds comfort in the company of her colleagues

Tapasi Muthu
Senior Attendant

The RGCB store is located in the basement of the the airport to pick up chemicals and equipments
main campus building at Jagathy. Amidst rolls along with necessary documents for clearance
of tissues, cotton, masks, sanitizers and gloves and customs duty approvals. The RGCB store is
sits Muthu ‘annan’ (annan in Malayalam means always well stocked and very rarely does it face
elder brother) who joined RGCB in 1994. One of a shortage because of the unrelenting efforts of
the earliest recruits of the Institute, Muthu first Muthu and his colleagues. Muthu interacts mostly
worked in the front office as a helper in the rented with students who collect stocks from the stores
office at Sasthamangalam. His duties included on a monthly basis and says that in his lifetime at
travelling with cash to the bank and transfer of RGCB, he has experienced interaction all sort of
important documents and files. In 2005, he was people and most of them have treated him with
moved to the Stores and Purchases section where kindness and affection. He is very happy to be
he remains an integral part of the central stores. part of RGCB family and will surely miss it when
As part of his duties, he prepares lists of items to he retires from service next year.
be purchased for the store, printing of quotations,
maintenance of files and filling up of stock as and Muthu lives with his mother and his wife Geetha
when the need arises. He also collects chemicals at Neyyatinkara. He has two children, Jithu, a
and small equipments which are sent through graduate in Chemistry and Geethu studying
the parcel offices. It is also his duty to travel to Mathematics in NSS College, Dhanuvachapuram.