Wise Minister

Written by:

Rohith Jayaraman
Date of birth: 19/07/1998
Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School,
No. 9, Vasantha Press Road,
Adyar, Chennai - 600020.

INTELLIGENT MINISTER AT THE KINGDOM

Once upon a time, there was a King called Ramdev who rulled a country rich in agricultural and business wealth. There were many willages which contributed substantially for the wealth of his kingdom One day the people of one among these villagers came to Ramdev and pleaded, "Oh! our beloved King, we have a great problem that we are unable to solve by ourselves and we plead for your help to solve the same". The king asked the villagers, "What is your problem? Please tell me. I shall do the needful. The villagers explained the problem to the King. Many thefts were taking place in their village since the past few days and the people were unable to find out who the thief is. The King assured the villagers that he will do the right thing to catch the thief and asked the villagers to go home and be rest assured of the solution.

The king appointed several responsible personnel from his army to find out who is responsible for the thefts in the village. These personnel could not fix the problem even after a week. The king called out all the ministers in his cabinet and asked them to do something to solve the issue. He also announced a bag of gold coins and a promotion as reward for the minister who came up with the right idea and caught the thief. The ministers suggested several ideas but the thief could not be caught even after implementing them. A gentleman named Sukbeer who is one among these ministers came forward with a solution entirely different from those suggested by others after patiently waiting to allow all other ministers to make an effort at this task.

A novel business firm established safety lockers in several cities and even villages of the kingdom to help the people keep their valuables safe. This facility was also extended to the village which suffered from the problem of thefts. A huge safety locker was placed in each of the cities and the concerned villages in the kingdom. The firm announced to the people, "Please deposit your money and your jewels in our locker for a small fee and we will be safeguard them to your satisfaction”. The thieves who also heard this announcement worked out a plan to try their hands at robbing one of these lockers so that they could get away with larger amounts of money and jwelry than what they could by stealing from individual houses.

The thieves waited patiently for quite some time for sufficient number of people to deposit their money and jwels in these lockers and in the mean while studied the situation in the place where the locker was installed. Ultimately they were able to find a way to lay their hands on the locker. The thieves executed their plan on a particular night. They were able to unlock the safety locker and take all the money and jwels from there. They were very exited as to the amount of wealth they could accumulate in just one day. The decided that they will leave the boundaries of the kingdom with the loot and happily enjoy their future life with the huge money which was available for spending as a result of the robbery.

A portion of the floor on which the thieves were walking gave way while escaping after stealing the valuables as they could not notice the presence of the trap being night time. The thieves were all caught and punished for their crime. The minister sukbeer was awarded with the prize that the King had announced. All the jewels and money stolen from the villagers earlier were also recovered from the thieves and given back to the villagers.

The villagers thanked the king and the minister for having solved their problem and made their life pleasant.

Moral: Always be Clever & Intelligent!! You will reach greater heights!