Dear veterans,
Regards.The following is posted for your infomation and a need to
check default.
Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Extension of free gift schemes to CSD consumers and a need to check default
Many a times, service-members and veterans end up buying consumer
goods from the open market because of the reason that certain offers
and free gift schemes are not made available to CSD customers. Some
of our people also believe that such schemes are not ‘legally’ not meant
to be extended to CSD consumers.This is however an unfair trade practice
by suppliers and dealers. If a gift scheme is offered by a supplier in the
open market to all consumers and is not only a local arrangement by a
particular dealer, it is bound to be extended to the CSD too. Entitled
personnel should make it a point to survey the market first and demand
gift schemes from the concerned dealers if the same are being extended
to customers other than CSD consumers. In case of default, the same may
be immediately reported to the following address :
Customer Service Cellc/o DGM (MS)Canteen Stores Department‘Adelphi’,
119, M K RoadMumbai – 400 020
Posted by Navdeep / Maj Navdeep Singh
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
GCM to try woman officer for corruption reassembles after two years :Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
GCM to try woman officer reassembles after 2 yrs :Vijay Mohan-Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 14-After remaining adjourned for about two
years on legal grounds, the first ever general court martial (GCM)
convened by the Army to try a woman officer on charges of corruption reassembled here today.
The GCM is trying Major Dimple Singla of the Judge Advocate General’s
(JAG) Branch on three charges under Sections 52 and 63 of the Army
Act for wrongful gain and acts prejudicial to good order and military
discipline.
She had allegedly demanded and accepted bribes from jawans facing
court martial in order to influence the trial in their favour. She was
released from service on completion of her stipulated period of
engagement during the course of the trial.
The GCM, presided over by Col Sanjeev Jose, CO of an Air Defence
Regiment, had commenced in April 2007 but was adjourned sine die
a few months later after the accused had moved the Punjab and
Haryana High Court when the GCM had dismissed her plea without
allowing the defence to lead evidence in its support or giving a
reasoned order in support of its decision.
The defence had challenged the jurisdiction of the GCM to try the
case on the grounds that certain mandatory provisions of law
were not complied with during pre-trial proceedings.
The High Court had directed the GCM to give detailed and reasoned
order in the matter and the Army thereafter decided to move the
Supreme Court against HC’s directions. The apex court reportedly
upheld the HC order. The defence thereafter moved the Armed
Forces Tribunal challenging the reasons given by the GCM in
support of its decision, but the AFT directed the GOC-in-C,
Western Command, to dispose of the matter.
The defence today raised objection to the present judge advocate
being part of the trial on grounds that he is posted with the same
unit with which the accused had served. The defence contended t
hat this was contrary to the provisions of Army Rules and Army
Orders dealing with the subject. Further, all documents pertaining
to the case were available with the said unit, which would prejudice
the case against her.
The court has been adjourned for the prosecution to file its reply to
the defence’s contention.
Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Mob.098554-00128
Chandigarh, December 14-After remaining adjourned for about two
years on legal grounds, the first ever general court martial (GCM)
convened by the Army to try a woman officer on charges of corruption reassembled here today.
The GCM is trying Major Dimple Singla of the Judge Advocate General’s
(JAG) Branch on three charges under Sections 52 and 63 of the Army
Act for wrongful gain and acts prejudicial to good order and military
discipline.
She had allegedly demanded and accepted bribes from jawans facing
court martial in order to influence the trial in their favour. She was
released from service on completion of her stipulated period of
engagement during the course of the trial.
The GCM, presided over by Col Sanjeev Jose, CO of an Air Defence
Regiment, had commenced in April 2007 but was adjourned sine die
a few months later after the accused had moved the Punjab and
Haryana High Court when the GCM had dismissed her plea without
allowing the defence to lead evidence in its support or giving a
reasoned order in support of its decision.
The defence had challenged the jurisdiction of the GCM to try the
case on the grounds that certain mandatory provisions of law
were not complied with during pre-trial proceedings.
The High Court had directed the GCM to give detailed and reasoned
order in the matter and the Army thereafter decided to move the
Supreme Court against HC’s directions. The apex court reportedly
upheld the HC order. The defence thereafter moved the Armed
Forces Tribunal challenging the reasons given by the GCM in
support of its decision, but the AFT directed the GOC-in-C,
Western Command, to dispose of the matter.
The defence today raised objection to the present judge advocate
being part of the trial on grounds that he is posted with the same
unit with which the accused had served. The defence contended t
hat this was contrary to the provisions of Army Rules and Army
Orders dealing with the subject. Further, all documents pertaining
to the case were available with the said unit, which would prejudice
the case against her.
The court has been adjourned for the prosecution to file its reply to
the defence’s contention.
Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Mob.098554-00128
In CSD , there is a need to check default and degradation of services : Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Dear Veterans,
Regards. The following ISs for your informaton,Please.
CSD: Need to check default and degradation of services
Extension of free gift schemes to CSD consumers and a need to check
default. Many a times, service- members and veterans end up buying
consumer goods from the open market because of the reason that
certain offers and free gift schemes are not made available to CSD
customers. Some of our people also believe that such schemes are
not ‘legally’ not meant to be extended to CSD consumers.This is
however an unfair trade practice by suppliers and dealers. If a gift
scheme is offered by a supplier in the open market to all consumers
and is not only a local arrangement by a particular dealer, it is
bound to be extended to the CSD too. Entitled personnel should make
it a point to survey the market first and demand gift schemes from
the concerned dealers if the same are being extended to customers
other than CSD consumers. In case of default, the same may be
immediately reported to the following address :
Customer Service
Cellc/o DGM (MS)Canteen Stores Department‘Adelphi’, 119,
M K RoadMumbai – 400 020Posted by Maj Navdeep Singh
Comment: The quality of consumer goods sold in CSD are obsolete
models (example cell phone chargers which are a decade old and
not compatible for latest cell phone models are being flooded in
CSD canteens). Similarly it is advisable not to buy electrical and
household gadgets from CSD as they are likely to be out- dated
models. Chroma a Tata Venture a consumer friendly outlet has the
best quality and latest household products at very reasonable rates.
Please Check out this webpage: Tata Chroma RetailCSD Canteens
are money spinnersMany formations and units have crores and
lakhs of Rupees in Banks spinning even more interests. What is the
earthly use of earning so much profits if it cannot be utilised
prudently for implementing measures to improve quality of life of
serving soldiers and veterans? The canteen staff are paid peanuts
and in few cases the civilian staff are paid by dishing out liquor to
compensate low wages! Truly the Mission Statement of CSD needs to
be suitable revised as "Money Spinners" for no worthwhile reasons.
The CSD should be run on no profit no loss basis. This truly will be
service oriented.
Posted by SIGNAL on Monday, December 14, 2009 Links to this post
Regards. The following ISs for your informaton,Please.
CSD: Need to check default and degradation of services
Extension of free gift schemes to CSD consumers and a need to check
default. Many a times, service- members and veterans end up buying
consumer goods from the open market because of the reason that
certain offers and free gift schemes are not made available to CSD
customers. Some of our people also believe that such schemes are
not ‘legally’ not meant to be extended to CSD consumers.This is
however an unfair trade practice by suppliers and dealers. If a gift
scheme is offered by a supplier in the open market to all consumers
and is not only a local arrangement by a particular dealer, it is
bound to be extended to the CSD too. Entitled personnel should make
it a point to survey the market first and demand gift schemes from
the concerned dealers if the same are being extended to customers
other than CSD consumers. In case of default, the same may be
immediately reported to the following address :
Customer Service
Cellc/o DGM (MS)Canteen Stores Department‘Adelphi’, 119,
M K RoadMumbai – 400 020Posted by Maj Navdeep Singh
Comment: The quality of consumer goods sold in CSD are obsolete
models (example cell phone chargers which are a decade old and
not compatible for latest cell phone models are being flooded in
CSD canteens). Similarly it is advisable not to buy electrical and
household gadgets from CSD as they are likely to be out- dated
models. Chroma a Tata Venture a consumer friendly outlet has the
best quality and latest household products at very reasonable rates.
Please Check out this webpage: Tata Chroma RetailCSD Canteens
are money spinnersMany formations and units have crores and
lakhs of Rupees in Banks spinning even more interests. What is the
earthly use of earning so much profits if it cannot be utilised
prudently for implementing measures to improve quality of life of
serving soldiers and veterans? The canteen staff are paid peanuts
and in few cases the civilian staff are paid by dishing out liquor to
compensate low wages! Truly the Mission Statement of CSD needs to
be suitable revised as "Money Spinners" for no worthwhile reasons.
The CSD should be run on no profit no loss basis. This truly will be
service oriented.
Posted by SIGNAL on Monday, December 14, 2009 Links to this post
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Bureaucracy and the Armed Forces in India: Prabhjot Singh chhatwal PLS Retd.
Dear Veterans,
Regards.Read the following,ponder over this and give your
comments,please.
The Bureaucracy and the Armed Forces in India
THE BUREAUCRACY AND THE ARMED
FORCES IN INDIA– A CASE OF PENIS
ENVY? (see the article below).
How very true! Do all States have a Lok Ayukth?? Karnataka Lok
Ayukth is presently headed by an ex Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court the Hon'ble Justice Santosh Hegde. Both he and his
predecessor have investigated hundreds of cases of big corruption
against babus running into, I dare say, thousands of crores of
rupees. No actions whatsoever, except for suspension or transfer
of the corrupt officials, have ever taken place!!! Not a single charge
has been brought about against anyone, not a single case has
reached any Court of Law.Compare this with the completed court
martial that have taken place against corrupt Officers of the
Armed Forces in the last few decades. The Press goes ballistic over
corrupt "Colonel Ketchups" and the like, but are not vocal against
corrupt babus except when reported by the Lok Ayukth.When
my older grandchildren tell me of the distorted history that is
being taught in schools of how the British and the Rajas looted the
country for 200 years, I have to bring them up to date with the
fact that the present day rajas (babus and politicians) continue]
to do so everyday with impunity and without any restraints!!
Col Cyrus Dalal (Retd)
THE BUREAUCRACY AND THE ARMED FORCES IN INDIA–
A CASE OF PENIS ENVY?
Imagine two branches of service in the Government of India.
The two branches are different in substance and in the
perception of the citizens. One branch has its halo effect and
is considered both glamorous and praiseworthy in public
perception. The other branch is often pejoratively titled
“babudom”.Now consider the following points:
The armed forces have their uniforms and shiny medals.
The bureaucrats have none.
Generals, Admirals and Air Marhsals sport three stars on
their vehicles, and sometimes four stars. Even officers of the
rank of Brigadier sport a star. The bureaucrats of similar
seniority have to make do with just a red or blue light. Lest
you consider this a trivial matter not worthy of the attention
of a senior bureaucrat, consider this – when my brother,
an Air Commodore, was posted as India’s Air Attache in
Washington, he was entitled to put a single star –
the US Army’s designated insignia for a brigadier level officer –
on his vehicle. This gave him certain parking and other
privileges in specified buildings. His administrative superior
– an officer belonging to the Indian Foreign Service – actually
urged my brother to remove the star from his car since he, the
senior officer, was not entitled to it.
The armed forces, with their bemedalled heroes guarding our
boundaries, and their fighter pilots, navy commanders etc.
garner favourable publicity in the media and are viewed as
services with an air of professionalism and macho. They carry
an aura of glamour. The bureaucrats, on the other hand, do
not have such an image – in fact, they are widely considered
to be working in musty offices, surrounded by files and aided
by often sloppy staff, who the average citizen encounters in
his or her daily life.If professions could be said to have sexes,
the armed forces would definitely be considered masculine
and the bureaucrats, their civilian counterpart, feminine.
In saying this I do not mean to slight the feminine aspect.
I am just stating the obvious – the aggressive, protective,
outgoing principle vis a vis the protected, home-bound civilian
bureaucrats.This dichotomy between the two appears to have
affected the bureaucratic wing adversely as far as their
attitude towards the defence wing is concerned. The closest we
can express this attitude in psychological terms is by saying that
they suffer from penis-envy.Sigmund Freud introduced the
concept of a little girl's envy of the penis in his 1908 article
"On the Sexual Theories of Children," and developed the idea
later in his work “On Narcissism”. Subsequently, his theory has
been overtaken by more accurate theories of female sexuality
by psychologists such as Eric Ericson ad Jian Paget. It has also
been criticised by feminists and others. However, here we are
not dealing with the girl child’s psychological development.
We are concerned with a similar emotion amongst India’s
bureaucrats vis a vis our Armed Forces where this theory does
appear to apply rather closely.The bureaucrats subconsciously
appear to wish that they had more glamour in their profession,
that they had smart, uniformed assistants and starred vehicles
and be-medalled uniforms. Acquiring these appears as difficult
as the girl’s covert wish to acquire a penis. However, unlike the
girl child, the bureaucrats can do something about it. They may
not be able to acquire a penis for themselves, but they leave no
occasion to try and castrate the armed forces.The recent sixth
pay commission controversy is only one factor in the ongoing
struggle for supremacy which the bureaucrats have tried this
castration. In pursuance of this effort, the bureaucrats have not
permitted even a single representative of the armed forces –
India’s largest employer – in the Pay Commission. An indicative
incident of the feeling of animosity can be judged by he incident
where the military attaché in one of our embassies overheard
one of the senior-most bureaucrats visiting that country make
a pejorative comment in reference to the noise being made by
the armed forces about the Sixth Pay Commission award
anomalies. The senior bureaucrats comment was that on his
return to India “We will fix the bastards”.Another indication of
this castration is the order of precedence. This is the official
order in which dignitaries are seated at formal functions and the
ceremonial importance given to each relative to the others. At
the time of independence, the senior most general was second in
the Order of Precedence. Now the Army Chief is 12th in this list.
The Cabinet Secretary is 11th, as is the Attorney General. At the
23rd position are “Officers of the rank of full General or equivalent
rank” on par with Secretaries to the Government, Commissioner
for Linguistic Minorities , Secretary, Minorities Commission,
Secretary, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission
Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes ,
Members, Minorities Commission , Members, National Commission
for Scheduled Castes, Members, National Commission for
Scheduled Tribes and a host of others.There are many other
areas where no opportunity is missed by the bureaucrats to show
the armed forces down.The overt reason one hears for
maintaining the supremacy of the bureaucrats over the armed
forces is that we should adhere to the principle of “the civilian
control of the army”. However, civilian control does not mean
the Chief of India’s Army, who commands 1.3 million officers
and soldiers, apart from 1.4 million reserve and territorial
army personnel, waiting at the pleasure of the bureaucrats
manning the Ministry of Defence orders of a civilian Minister
of Defence, it would ensure the principle of civilian control
adequately. However, the bureaucrats will never agree to this
because this argument will take away one more tool which
facilitates the castration mentioned above.These attempts
at castration of the armed forces by the bureaucracy are
resulting in the demoralisation of our armed forces at all
levels. The retired officers speak about this openly and the
serving ones in hushed tones. This complex of the bureaucrats
needs to be recognised for what it is and, then, needs to be
addressed firmly and fairly by the political masters, Unless
this is done, we will continue devaluing the spear and shield
of the country to satisfy the castrative instinct of the
bureaucrats. If a further devaluation of the tools of India's
defence happens, we should not be surprised that, when we
need a steely response to danger on our borders, we will get
a wooden one. Then, paradoxically, the bureaucrats will get
one more reason to castrate the armed forces further and the
vicious spiral will continue making holes in our national
defence shield.
Kishore Asthana
asthana1@yahoo.comTHE BUREAUCRACY AND THE ARMED FORCES IN INDIA– A CASE OF PENIS ENVY?
Posted by SIGNAL on Sunday, December 13, 2009
Labels: Bureaucratic Arrogance, Bureaucratic Impotence, Combating Corruption, Criminal Justice System, Failing Constitution, Judicial Intervention, Judicial Reforms, Lok Ayukth, Proactive Citizen, RTI
Regards.Read the following,ponder over this and give your
comments,please.
The Bureaucracy and the Armed Forces in India
THE BUREAUCRACY AND THE ARMED
FORCES IN INDIA– A CASE OF PENIS
ENVY? (see the article below).
How very true! Do all States have a Lok Ayukth?? Karnataka Lok
Ayukth is presently headed by an ex Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court the Hon'ble Justice Santosh Hegde. Both he and his
predecessor have investigated hundreds of cases of big corruption
against babus running into, I dare say, thousands of crores of
rupees. No actions whatsoever, except for suspension or transfer
of the corrupt officials, have ever taken place!!! Not a single charge
has been brought about against anyone, not a single case has
reached any Court of Law.Compare this with the completed court
martial that have taken place against corrupt Officers of the
Armed Forces in the last few decades. The Press goes ballistic over
corrupt "Colonel Ketchups" and the like, but are not vocal against
corrupt babus except when reported by the Lok Ayukth.When
my older grandchildren tell me of the distorted history that is
being taught in schools of how the British and the Rajas looted the
country for 200 years, I have to bring them up to date with the
fact that the present day rajas (babus and politicians) continue]
to do so everyday with impunity and without any restraints!!
Col Cyrus Dalal (Retd)
THE BUREAUCRACY AND THE ARMED FORCES IN INDIA–
A CASE OF PENIS ENVY?
Imagine two branches of service in the Government of India.
The two branches are different in substance and in the
perception of the citizens. One branch has its halo effect and
is considered both glamorous and praiseworthy in public
perception. The other branch is often pejoratively titled
“babudom”.Now consider the following points:
The armed forces have their uniforms and shiny medals.
The bureaucrats have none.
Generals, Admirals and Air Marhsals sport three stars on
their vehicles, and sometimes four stars. Even officers of the
rank of Brigadier sport a star. The bureaucrats of similar
seniority have to make do with just a red or blue light. Lest
you consider this a trivial matter not worthy of the attention
of a senior bureaucrat, consider this – when my brother,
an Air Commodore, was posted as India’s Air Attache in
Washington, he was entitled to put a single star –
the US Army’s designated insignia for a brigadier level officer –
on his vehicle. This gave him certain parking and other
privileges in specified buildings. His administrative superior
– an officer belonging to the Indian Foreign Service – actually
urged my brother to remove the star from his car since he, the
senior officer, was not entitled to it.
The armed forces, with their bemedalled heroes guarding our
boundaries, and their fighter pilots, navy commanders etc.
garner favourable publicity in the media and are viewed as
services with an air of professionalism and macho. They carry
an aura of glamour. The bureaucrats, on the other hand, do
not have such an image – in fact, they are widely considered
to be working in musty offices, surrounded by files and aided
by often sloppy staff, who the average citizen encounters in
his or her daily life.If professions could be said to have sexes,
the armed forces would definitely be considered masculine
and the bureaucrats, their civilian counterpart, feminine.
In saying this I do not mean to slight the feminine aspect.
I am just stating the obvious – the aggressive, protective,
outgoing principle vis a vis the protected, home-bound civilian
bureaucrats.This dichotomy between the two appears to have
affected the bureaucratic wing adversely as far as their
attitude towards the defence wing is concerned. The closest we
can express this attitude in psychological terms is by saying that
they suffer from penis-envy.Sigmund Freud introduced the
concept of a little girl's envy of the penis in his 1908 article
"On the Sexual Theories of Children," and developed the idea
later in his work “On Narcissism”. Subsequently, his theory has
been overtaken by more accurate theories of female sexuality
by psychologists such as Eric Ericson ad Jian Paget. It has also
been criticised by feminists and others. However, here we are
not dealing with the girl child’s psychological development.
We are concerned with a similar emotion amongst India’s
bureaucrats vis a vis our Armed Forces where this theory does
appear to apply rather closely.The bureaucrats subconsciously
appear to wish that they had more glamour in their profession,
that they had smart, uniformed assistants and starred vehicles
and be-medalled uniforms. Acquiring these appears as difficult
as the girl’s covert wish to acquire a penis. However, unlike the
girl child, the bureaucrats can do something about it. They may
not be able to acquire a penis for themselves, but they leave no
occasion to try and castrate the armed forces.The recent sixth
pay commission controversy is only one factor in the ongoing
struggle for supremacy which the bureaucrats have tried this
castration. In pursuance of this effort, the bureaucrats have not
permitted even a single representative of the armed forces –
India’s largest employer – in the Pay Commission. An indicative
incident of the feeling of animosity can be judged by he incident
where the military attaché in one of our embassies overheard
one of the senior-most bureaucrats visiting that country make
a pejorative comment in reference to the noise being made by
the armed forces about the Sixth Pay Commission award
anomalies. The senior bureaucrats comment was that on his
return to India “We will fix the bastards”.Another indication of
this castration is the order of precedence. This is the official
order in which dignitaries are seated at formal functions and the
ceremonial importance given to each relative to the others. At
the time of independence, the senior most general was second in
the Order of Precedence. Now the Army Chief is 12th in this list.
The Cabinet Secretary is 11th, as is the Attorney General. At the
23rd position are “Officers of the rank of full General or equivalent
rank” on par with Secretaries to the Government, Commissioner
for Linguistic Minorities , Secretary, Minorities Commission,
Secretary, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission
Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes ,
Members, Minorities Commission , Members, National Commission
for Scheduled Castes, Members, National Commission for
Scheduled Tribes and a host of others.There are many other
areas where no opportunity is missed by the bureaucrats to show
the armed forces down.The overt reason one hears for
maintaining the supremacy of the bureaucrats over the armed
forces is that we should adhere to the principle of “the civilian
control of the army”. However, civilian control does not mean
the Chief of India’s Army, who commands 1.3 million officers
and soldiers, apart from 1.4 million reserve and territorial
army personnel, waiting at the pleasure of the bureaucrats
manning the Ministry of Defence orders of a civilian Minister
of Defence, it would ensure the principle of civilian control
adequately. However, the bureaucrats will never agree to this
because this argument will take away one more tool which
facilitates the castration mentioned above.These attempts
at castration of the armed forces by the bureaucracy are
resulting in the demoralisation of our armed forces at all
levels. The retired officers speak about this openly and the
serving ones in hushed tones. This complex of the bureaucrats
needs to be recognised for what it is and, then, needs to be
addressed firmly and fairly by the political masters, Unless
this is done, we will continue devaluing the spear and shield
of the country to satisfy the castrative instinct of the
bureaucrats. If a further devaluation of the tools of India's
defence happens, we should not be surprised that, when we
need a steely response to danger on our borders, we will get
a wooden one. Then, paradoxically, the bureaucrats will get
one more reason to castrate the armed forces further and the
vicious spiral will continue making holes in our national
defence shield.
Kishore Asthana
asthana1@yahoo.comTHE BUREAUCRACY AND THE ARMED FORCES IN INDIA– A CASE OF PENIS ENVY?
Posted by SIGNAL on Sunday, December 13, 2009
Labels: Bureaucratic Arrogance, Bureaucratic Impotence, Combating Corruption, Criminal Justice System, Failing Constitution, Judicial Intervention, Judicial Reforms, Lok Ayukth, Proactive Citizen, RTI
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Latest information received from Govt. regarding benefits to JCOs and below : Veteran Pabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Dear Veterans ,
Regards. Find above two responses from the Govt.
regarding benefits for JCOs and below. It is for your
information, please.
Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
President,
Indian Ex- Services League, Punjab & Chandigarh.
Mob. 098554-09128, Tele-Fax.0175-5000896.
Latest on One Rank One Pension :Veteran Prabhjot Singh ChhatwalPLS Retd.
Regards.Following information is posted on the blog for the information
veterans.
RM on OROP in Rajya Sabha
ONE RANK ONE PENSION FORMULA- 17:19 IST /RAJYA SABHA/
A committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Cabinet
Secretary to look into the issue of One Rank One Pension and other
related matters. After considering all aspects of the issue, the
Committee did not find it administratively feasible to recommend
One Rank One Pension, as such. However, keeping in mind the spirit
of the demand several other recommendations to substantially
improve pensionary benefits of personnel Below Officer Rank
(PBOR) and Commissioned Officers have been made, which have
been accepted by the Government:- i) Inclusion of Classification
Allowance for PBOR from Jan 01, 2006. ii) Removal of linkage of
full pension with 33 years from Jan 01, 2006. iii) Revision of Lt. Gen.
pension after carving out a separate pay scale for them.
iv) Bringing parity between pension of pre and post October 10, 1997
PBOR pensions. v) Further improving PBOR pensions based on
award of GOM, 2006. vi) Broad banding of percentage of disability
/war injury pension for pre Jan 01, 2006 disability/ war injury pensioners.
vii) Removal of cap on war injury element of pension in the case of
disabled pensioners belonging to Category ‘E’. The recommendations
at (i) and (ii) stand implemented by issue of Government letter dated
October 30, 2009. Average hike in pension of Ex-servicemen of the
three forces of Indian Defence will be known only after all the
recommendations of the Committee have been implemented.This
information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in
written reply to Shri Prakash Javadekar and Shri Parimal Nathwani
in Rajya Sabha today. PK / Raj
Posted by SIGNAL on Thursday, December 10, 2009 Links to this post
Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Mob.098554-09128,Tele-Fax 0175-5000896.
Four Generals among nine indicted in Land Scam: Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Dear Veterans,
Regards.Find below two news from Tribune for your information,
please.
Land Scam :Four Generals among
nine indicted Army promotions,
postings under scanner
Vijay MohanTribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 9-The count is now four Generals and
five other officers who have been held blameworthy for alleged
collusion and lapses to lease land near Siliguri to a group of
businessmen to build an educational centre adjoining a sensitive
Army establishment.
Sources close to the investigation said the COI has recommended
disciplinary action against at least five officers and
administrative action against others.
As a fallout of this, the court of inquiry (COI) that investigated
the matter has recommended that the recent promotions and
postings of certain officers based at various places be
investigated.The COI,headed by Lt Gen KT Parnaik, General
Officer Commanding 4 Corps,Tezpur, concluded on December
3, sources said. The senior-most officer to be blamed in this
matter, Lt Gen Avdesh Prakash is the Military Secretary at
Army Headquarters and responsible for the officer cadre
management, including promotions and postings. Sources
said the opinion was that some promotions and postings
could have been manipulated to benefit certain officers for
their alleged acts of omission and commission.
Besides General Prakash, the other officers held blameworthy
include Lt Gen PK Rath, the commander of 33 Corps who
was tomove as the Deputy Chief of Army Staff at Army
Headquarters before his posting was cancelled. The other
two Generals include a corps commander in the western
sector and a Major-General on staff appointment at
Headquarters Western Command. Both had served in the
northeast before their promotion.
The findings and recommendations of the COI are now
before the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern
Command, Lt.Gen.VK Singh for further action. The number
of officers that finally face disciplinary action and
administrative action would depend on a review of the COI
proceedings at command headquarters andthe directions
of the GCO-in-C thereof.
Sources said that a separate COI has also been recommended
to investigate some similar lapses pertaining to military land
in the area near Gangtok in Sikkim, which also comes under
the territorial jurisdiction of 33 Corps. Given its history and
location, Sikkim is extremely sensitive politically,
diplomatically and militarily.
Blow to Air Force, 101 pilots queue
up at exit doorAjay Banerjee:
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December :Call it the lure of the fast-growing private
aviation sector or inadequate salaries, more than 100 pilots of
the Indian Air Force (IAF) have applied for premature
retirementin the past one year. This high number comes less
than year after the services were locked in a very bitter
public spat with the bureaucracy on wages.
The IAF has some 1,500 pilots in total and it has projected
shortfall of some 300 pilots in future as it expands
squadrons of fighters and adds more choppers. The IAF has
already hiked the intake of pilots in its training academies
and now they take around 260 trainees in each annual course,
up from 190 trainee earlier. Defence Minister AK Antony gave
out the fact that 101 pilots -- most of who are highly skilled
in flying fighters, choppers and transport planes -- have
applied for a premature retirement. Antony told Rajya Sabha
that the broad reasons furnished by the applicants for grant
of premature retirement are supersession, lack of career
progression, medical/compassionate grounds etc. Such
applications are considered on a case-to-case basis in
accordance with extant government policy and service
exigencies. Antony said efforts were being made to carry out a
proactive publicity campaign to reach the target group
across the country. The number of retirement seekers has
gone up despite the government having made claims that the
sixth pay commission had addressed the needs and
aspirations of defence personnel. Separately, the
government today said IAF Vice Chief Air Marshal PK
Barbora’sremarks that politics was impinging badly on the
country’s military requirements were his “personal views”.
“The IAF Vice Chief had expressed his personal views
during his talk at a seminar while referring to the delays
that had occurred in the past in procurement of aircraft
and systems,”
Antony said in reply to a Rajya Sabha query. Meanwhile,
replying to another query, the Defence Minister said the
DRDO had enteredinto a joint venture with Israeli Aircraft
Industries (IAI) to develop a long range and medium
range surface-to-air missile systems.
Vetrean Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
President,
Indian Ex-Srevices League ,Punjab & Chandigarh.
Mob.098554-09128,Tele-Fax o175-5000896.
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Land Scam :Four Generals among
nine indicted Army promotions,
postings under scanner
Vijay MohanTribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 9-The count is now four Generals and
five other officers who have been held blameworthy for alleged
collusion and lapses to lease land near Siliguri to a group of
businessmen to build an educational centre adjoining a sensitive
Army establishment.
Sources close to the investigation said the COI has recommended
disciplinary action against at least five officers and
administrative action against others.
As a fallout of this, the court of inquiry (COI) that investigated
the matter has recommended that the recent promotions and
postings of certain officers based at various places be
investigated.The COI,headed by Lt Gen KT Parnaik, General
Officer Commanding 4 Corps,Tezpur, concluded on December
3, sources said. The senior-most officer to be blamed in this
matter, Lt Gen Avdesh Prakash is the Military Secretary at
Army Headquarters and responsible for the officer cadre
management, including promotions and postings. Sources
said the opinion was that some promotions and postings
could have been manipulated to benefit certain officers for
their alleged acts of omission and commission.
Besides General Prakash, the other officers held blameworthy
include Lt Gen PK Rath, the commander of 33 Corps who
was tomove as the Deputy Chief of Army Staff at Army
Headquarters before his posting was cancelled. The other
two Generals include a corps commander in the western
sector and a Major-General on staff appointment at
Headquarters Western Command. Both had served in the
northeast before their promotion.
The findings and recommendations of the COI are now
before the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern
Command, Lt.Gen.VK Singh for further action. The number
of officers that finally face disciplinary action and
administrative action would depend on a review of the COI
proceedings at command headquarters andthe directions
of the GCO-in-C thereof.
Sources said that a separate COI has also been recommended
to investigate some similar lapses pertaining to military land
in the area near Gangtok in Sikkim, which also comes under
the territorial jurisdiction of 33 Corps. Given its history and
location, Sikkim is extremely sensitive politically,
diplomatically and militarily.
Blow to Air Force, 101 pilots queue
up at exit doorAjay Banerjee:
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December :Call it the lure of the fast-growing private
aviation sector or inadequate salaries, more than 100 pilots of
the Indian Air Force (IAF) have applied for premature
retirementin the past one year. This high number comes less
than year after the services were locked in a very bitter
public spat with the bureaucracy on wages.
The IAF has some 1,500 pilots in total and it has projected
shortfall of some 300 pilots in future as it expands
squadrons of fighters and adds more choppers. The IAF has
already hiked the intake of pilots in its training academies
and now they take around 260 trainees in each annual course,
up from 190 trainee earlier. Defence Minister AK Antony gave
out the fact that 101 pilots -- most of who are highly skilled
in flying fighters, choppers and transport planes -- have
applied for a premature retirement. Antony told Rajya Sabha
that the broad reasons furnished by the applicants for grant
of premature retirement are supersession, lack of career
progression, medical/compassionate grounds etc. Such
applications are considered on a case-to-case basis in
accordance with extant government policy and service
exigencies. Antony said efforts were being made to carry out a
proactive publicity campaign to reach the target group
across the country. The number of retirement seekers has
gone up despite the government having made claims that the
sixth pay commission had addressed the needs and
aspirations of defence personnel. Separately, the
government today said IAF Vice Chief Air Marshal PK
Barbora’sremarks that politics was impinging badly on the
country’s military requirements were his “personal views”.
“The IAF Vice Chief had expressed his personal views
during his talk at a seminar while referring to the delays
that had occurred in the past in procurement of aircraft
and systems,”
Antony said in reply to a Rajya Sabha query. Meanwhile,
replying to another query, the Defence Minister said the
DRDO had enteredinto a joint venture with Israeli Aircraft
Industries (IAI) to develop a long range and medium
range surface-to-air missile systems.
Vetrean Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
President,
Indian Ex-Srevices League ,Punjab & Chandigarh.
Mob.098554-09128,Tele-Fax o175-5000896.
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