Ablaze in a Blizzard

The prime institution of Corps of Engineers of the Army . The college of military engineering in short CME is the prime institution of the corps of Engineers of the Army. It has four wings spread over 20 thousand acres near Pune called Dapodi on the Pune-Bombay highway. It has Civil, Eleect-Mechanical, Diploma and the prestegious Combat Engineering wings. Administrative wing is seperate. Corps of Engineers all ranks keep coming here for short and long courses. Officers of Corps Engineers, Corps of Signals and Corps on Elect-Mech Engineers those who are not Engineering Graduates come here for three years B.Tech course. The Signals and EME after one and half years training go to their parent training centre for another 1.5 years training. At a time about 2-3000 all ranks will be there.

It is a great institution having wonderful sports facilities, country's best library equipped with world best academic and military books. Ganesan was very happy to meet many of his friends after a gap of 6-7 years here. The rest of the year 1970 passed of peacefully with his younger brother getting married in 03 Dec.Ganesan who is basically a sports person and already a diploma holder was very very happily spending his days and was standing first amongst Civil Engineering students. The year 1971 dawned. Contd....