Service Life
For a few years he worked as the acting District Engineer of Nadia. He then had a bout of illness that left him jobless for nearly three years.An ardent believer in Gandhism he tried to make both ends meet by spinning yarns in Charkha and by producing home made match boxes with the help of unemployed village boys . It is needless to say that nothing worked. In1923 he took up the job of the Estate Engineer in the Cossimbazar Raj Estate . He remained in the same post till his retirement in 1950
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