My heartfelt thanks to the writer as he has brought to our notice an age-old office terminology, which has been frequently used at the government offices till date. I have seen the term 'MLSS' in many government advertisements.

Willingly or unwillingly, Mr. Saquee Hussain didn't let us know the meaning of MLSS. We may please note what it stands for. Owing to my personal inquisitiveness to know the elaboration of this term I asked one of my known government official that what does it stand for. He informed me that MLSS stands for: Member of Lower Subordinate Staff.

We are using this much old office terminology from the colonial era that needs to be changed in the context of modern system. Really the connotation is vague and absurd. People who bear this designation perhaps do not know the meaning of this typical term. However, this may be changed as 'Office attendant', 'Office bearer', 'Office caretaker', 'Office messenger' etc but not like 'Office peon' or 'Service peon' as proposed by Mr. Saquee because the term peon is also undermining human values.