WAR MEMORIAL ;; "BHAINSE KE AAGE BEEN BAJANA"

WAR MEMORIAL: General is wasting his time by trying hard to convince  the 'BUFFALO  BRAINS' . In Hindi  X’LATION  will be "BHAINSE KE AAGE BEEN BAJANA". His efforts will produce immediate fruits if he works on the theme   “NATIONAL MUSEUM IN MEMORY OF  ‘INDIAN ANARCHICAL SERVICES ( IAS )’  FOR A FACE LESS BABU  BORN IN WRITERS BUILDING CALCUTTA & DIED IN NORTH BLOCK AT NEW DELHI, UNNAMED ON UNKNOWN DATE” .  POSTSCRIPT(To be Displayed at the Main Entrance of the MUSEUM):    “ VISITOR BEFORE ENTERING SHOULD BE AWARE THAT  THE MOST REMARKABLE  CONTRIBUTION OF IAS WAS TO BUILD THE LARGEST   INDIAN EMPIRE  HISTORICALY EVER BUILT  THAT ALSO UNDER  FOREIGN  BUSSINESS  TRADER-POWER  AND THAN TO GET IT DESTROYED  UNDER ITS OWN  SOVEREIGN  RULE  POPULARLY KNOWN AS  “DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF DICTATORSHIP OF BUREACRATIC CONTROL OF INDIA” . Babu ACHIEVED ALL THIS ON THE GOD GIVEN GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF  “CORRUPTION”.  “  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120903/edit.htm#4 ”

National War Memorial, at lastThe ‘Unknown Soldier’ deserved itby Lt-Gen Harwant Singh (retd)

IT is more than half a century since the proposal to build a national war memorial at a suitable place in New Delhi was mooted by the defence services. All this time the proposal was being put off for no valid reason. It had been a sustained attempt by successive governments in the Capital to keep the military in the background and, as a policy, never to give due recognition to its services and highlight the achievements and sacrifices made to the nation. The bureaucracy, with a view to keeping the military suppressed, has succeeded in injecting into the political executive the fear of a military takeover of the country. The developments in the neighbouring countries served to reinforce such fears in the minds of the political class.

The media’s role has been anything but laudable. At another level, there has been complete apathy on the part of the public at large and the so-called civil society for building a National War Memorial. After all, it is for the protection and safety of people of this country that these gallant men gave up their lives. Therefore, the idea of National War Museum has been a victim of this policy and attitude
of indifference.

India has been the scene of innumerable battles, yet it never evolved a military tradition and resources enough to meet the challenge from invading armies. The soldier was seldom given recognition for his valour and sacrifices. Nations that value freedom and abhor foreign rule remember and honour those who sacrifice their lives for the defence of the country. They honour their martyrs in all possible ways as also build memorials to acknowledge their sacrifices. Unfortunately in India, there has been no tradition or practice to raise memorials to honour those who sacrificed their lives in defence of this land and commemorate battles in which they fell.

The concept of raising war memorials as such was, perhaps, first introduced in India by the British. Some historians have tried to classify the Qutab Minar in Delhi, the Victory Towers in Chittorgarh and Tughlakabad (down South) as a sort of memorials, but that claim is contestable. These were more to honour and highlight the achievements of the king or the conqueror than the common soldier. However, in other parts of the world the tradition of raising memorials in one form or the other has been in vogue from prehistoric times — in the form of ‘Burial Mounds’, ‘Obelisks’, crosses, the female figure as a symbol of victory, statues, structures, arches, etc.

It was the shattering experience of World War I that set in motion the urge to build memorials all over — in every town and village in Europe and elsewhere. In addition to these innumerable memorials, each of these countries, whose soldiers took part in this war, built national war memorials at the most appropriate places. In England, it is next to Whitehall in the heart of London. It is around this time that the concept of an “Unknown Soldier” was evolved and national memorials started being dedicated to him. Arch-de-Triumphe in Paris is the most prominent memorial; it is at this place that the idea of an “Unknown Soldier” was first put into practice. An “Unknown Soldier” lies buried in the Arch complex.

The British built a number of war memorials to commemorate their battle victories against Indian troops. The last great memorial they built to honour the Indian soldiers who fell in World War I is India Gate in New Delhi. While it has the names of all those who laid down their lives in this Great War, on the gate (a memorial arch) are also the manes of British officers who were killed in the NorthWest Frontier. Though some smaller memorials were built in the North-East to honour those who fell defending India against the Japanese offensive across Burma during World War II, no main war memorial could be built to honour the killed Indian troops. Thus, there is no memorial for Indian troops who sacrificed their lives during this war. Many of them had died defending India against the Japanese and others in North Africa and Italy to defend freedom.

India has fought a number of wars since Independence where thousands of soldiers (the term “soldiers” includes airmen and sailors and their officers) died but their sacrifices have never been properly recognised. Therefore, the decision of the government to finally build a National War Memorial in New Delhi should be welcome. The approval to build it near India Gate is both befitting and laudable.

This memorial needs to be dedicated not only to those who fell in the battles after Independence, including those of the Indian Peace Keeping Force during Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka, but also those who laid down their lives during World War II. The failure to do so will be a great injustice to the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in that great struggle.

The monument to be thus constructed must be of a grand design and scale, befitting the valour and sacrifices of those whose memory it aims to perpetuate. It must match India Gate in design, scale and grandeur. It ought to portray the unwavering loyalty, devotion and dedication of the Indian soldier (which includes airmen and sailors) to the country. It would be a place where all visiting dignitaries must be taken to pay homage to the “Unknown Soldier”. Some suggestions are doing the rounds that it should have a statue of a particular Indian general. National War Memorials as such never have a statue. There may be statues of a group of soldiers involved in some activity related to their deeds of valour, etc. National War Memorials are invariably dedicated to the “Unknown Soldier”, “The lads who took the copje (rocky outcrop) and are not known

OROP : ON PARITY & SEMI PARITY Can can AFs have parity with these Pigs.

       OROP : ON PARITY & SEMI PARITY




ARMED FORCES (AFs )& Civil Servants are two different Species, SPECIES means (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed.


Even in real life no BABU can come & Command in AFs other wise by now they would have infiltrated in AFs.


Logically even Para Military Forces & CENTRAL ARMED POLICE  ORGANIZATIONS (CPOs ) also should be under  AFs because till date no BABU dare command PMF Units Where as AFs guys are Universal Administrators & Commanders and historically  have shown their mettle in each & every branch of Administration where ever  they have been assigned.


Now coming to BABUs ,constitutionally are not the “ORGAN of the STATE”.

 They are tools of the Governmental Machinery nothing more nothing less and as far as State Craft is concerned they are not answerable to the State.

 Being answerable to a MINISTER does not mean that they are the GOVERNMENT, at the first signs  of smoke pointing to fire work they have historically disappeared in some  ARSE HOLE.


 Deserting  of TEZPUR in 1962 by BABUs is the best  recent example.

Where as Armed Forces is a CONSTITUTIONAL Organ like JUDICIARY without which no NATION can exist for a moment. AFs are directly responsible to the NATION for each and every action of theirs and not to any fucking  BABU. 


BUREAUCRATIC CONTROL on the AFs is being  kept DURING PEACE TIME DUE TO THE ILLEGAL THREAT OF REMOVAL FROM SERVICE ON ADMINISTRATIVE RULES  OF PRESIDENT IS PLEASED TO……………….!!!

 In the short span we  have seen the removal of NAVAL CHIEF & ARMY CHIEF being threatened  by these fucking BABUs shamelessly.


DID YOU NOTICE THAT NOT A SINGLE POLTICIAN  spoke openly. Now parity or semi parity can be with those species only  which match genetically and are compatible DNA wise to reproduce.

LIKE A TIGER & LION ARE CAPABLE OF COHABBITING & REPRODUCING. 

 Logic fails  even remotely when these BABUs want parity with AFs. If they are shame less to say NFFU is not applicable to AFs being commissioned,  so can AFs have a right say  OROP means for the RANK which we wear on our shoulders  &  signify that we carry
the weight of NATION on our shoulders,

 if BABUs want parity they should for themselves create  RANKs and not GRADE PAYs & NFFUs  and   create multiplying  Appointments like PIGs to  plonk their  stinking  ARSES  and loot the Nation.

How  can AFs have parity with these Pigs.















 

OROP PRIOR TO 3RD CPC : WHEN WE WERE FIGHTING THE WAR BABUs WERE CHEATING THE SOLDIER

   WHEN WE WERE FIGHTING THE WAR BABUs WERE CHEATING THE SOLDIER



It is correct(A)Pensions(a)JCOs&ORs 70  percent of the RANK subject to MIN SERVICE of eligibility of the RANK. There was the RESERVE SERVICE LIABILITY depending on Trade &  Arm/Services. Say INF SEPOYS/JAWANS  it was 8yrs Active + 7yrs Reserve ie 15yrs= Pension, 70 percent, when I came in it was 10 A + 5 R  . SAY Signals for Operators/ Mechanics it was 12A + 8R=20yrs.



 Pakistan Army has made very little changes rather have improved it and in NATIONAL EMERGENCY PAK Army doubles overnight due to Reservists pouring in. WHERE AS INDIAN ARMY IT IS ALMOST ""NIL""


(b) OFFICERS IT WAS 50 PERCENT OF THE "RANK"  repeat( RANK)  HELD SUBJECT TO THE MIN NUMBER OF yrs service RENDERED/ & REQUIRED IN THE rank. RETIREMENT. MAJORS 48YRS LT COL(T) 50YRS LtCOL(s)YRS 52.

 No Colonels.  BRIG 54YRS .


  INTERESTING FOR GENERALS    Fixed tenure  “I AM POSITIVE & SURE ABOUT THIS.  Gen Palit  HE RETIRED ON 04  JUN1968  when he was hardly 50 plus . I have read the book of on Armour  General retiring on 48 Yrs on the issue of fixed tenure for  General Officers, Any how the orders were amended on 06 Jun 1968 by that time Gen Palit had retired missing the boat by 48 HOURS. (C)  CIVILIANS  It was 33 percent than improved to 40 Percent and  “””IN THIRD PAY COMMISSION AFs WERE DUMPED WITH THESE BASTARDS AND  EVERY THING STANDARDISED TO 50 PERCENT. (d) 4 CPC ON WARD YOU ALL KNOW THE  “”MAHABHARAT”    ( In this there may be very minor variations but is correct in major  DETAILs)  I know because my Father had retired in 1970 & recalled in 1971. Reservist Policy was a boon to keep army NUMERICALLY  Healthy.In 1965 & 71 there was no dearth of man power in the units. during war. After 3rd CPC in general & 4 CPC in particular  the  PENSION situation was as bad as it is today. LASTLY  ON ISSUE OF PARITY,  IN 1993 DUE TO THE WORSENING FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE OFFFICER PENSIONERS pensions were  brought ON parity  to the beginning of the “RANK”  there  was  no “ PAY  BAND”   to  ‘BAJAO’ the Pensioners  BAJA (BAND). Luckily my old man died after getting 1993 pension. It looks like his son ,my self. may repeat  this fuckin  PARITY .On issue of ‘ PARITY’ DISCUSSION this is the reason PENSIONERS like me who are aware & chary of this  GIMMICK  of  ‘ALMOST PARITY’ . This means all ‘Fuck All’.  LASTLY WITH PENSIONERS LIKE ME  MONEY IS NOT THE ISSUE, BECAUSE BEING KEPT STARVED OF OUR FINANCIAL RIGHTS FOR SO LONG WE  HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO SPEND MONEY.  OUR DEMAND IS FIX OUR EMOLUMENTS ON WELL SETTLED PRINCIPLES  and not on the largesse of a joint secretary being called “SARKAR” who  decides the issue based on his MOOD. WE DONT WANTEVEN  OUR NEXT GENERATION TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF THESE  NATIONAL TRAITORS WHOSE LOYALTY IS TOWARDS THE POLITICIANS RATHER THAN THE CONSTITUTION & TRI COLOUR.

An Anguished Conscience

                                                DEDICATED
                                 TO  
       DEPARTMENT OF DRACULA
                                   in
                           DEFENCE
                                   of  
  EX SERVICE-MEN  WILDFIRE  (DESW)





                   An Anguished Conscience


SOLDIERS DONT RETIRE THEY FADE AWAY,

but in my country they wont let you even fade till chased to your grave

: "WHEN I WAS A YOUNG SOLDIER I IMAGINED HOW TO STOP A ROLLING ON TANK, IF NEED BE EVEN BY BECOMING A HUMAN TORPEDO. TODAY WHEN I AM AN AGED IMAGE OF MY YESTER YEARS I STILL FEEL THE NEED OF BEING A HUMAN BOMB AWAITING THE TARGET TO GET FORMULATED"

                                 - An Anguished Conscience



















 

ECHS BOON OR BANE

                                       ECHS BOON OR BANE




To,

The Hon’ble Prime Minister Of India,

                South Block,

 New Delhi -110 011

               

                Mrs Sonia Gandhi,

                Chair-Person, UPA,10 Janpat,

New Delhi

                The Hon’ble Defence Minister of India,

                South Block,

New Delhi -110 011

               

                The Chief of the Army Staff,

                South Block, New Delhi – 110 011

                The Chief of the Air Staff,

                Air Headquarters, New Delhi – 110 011

                The Chief of the Naval Staff,

                Naval headquarters, New Delhi- 110 011

The GOC-in-C

Headquarters Western Command,

Chandimandir, Dist Panchkula

The Director General Armed Forces Medical Services,

Ministry of Defence,

DHQ PO New Delhi 110 011

The Managing Director,ECHS,

Maude Lines,

Delhi Cantt 110 010

The Regional ECHS Cell,

Station Headquarters,

Chandimandir, Dist Panchkula

     ECHS BOON OR BANE

Sir,

1.            When ECHS was introduced Ex-Servicemen felt very happy that they would be able to get the best medical facility available in the country. Today when I look back I realize that ECHS has done the greatest damage to the Ex-Servicemen. This facility is looking after the officer cadre to some extent by virtue of their ranks and contacts , the JCO’s  and Other Ranks are the worst sufferers as most of the officers reside in cities where ECHS Polyclinics exist and most of the JCO’s and other ranks reside in villages and as such are devoid of this facility. Those from the villages when are compelled by the ailment to visit the empanelled hospital, they have to depend on public transport, they also do not have proper facility for food and stay.

2.            Earlier when one reported to the Military Hospital, after his reporting, the Hospital looked after the patient. Now the patient is made to run from pillar to post to receive the service of an empanelled hospital. The procedures are lengthy and time consuming. When I write this I am giving the living examples of the functioning of the ECHS.

3.            My mother aged 87 years is the wife of an Army Officer and is a member of the ECHS. She is suffering from Dementia, Ischemic Heart Disease and Thyroid. She is dependent on ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir. Because of Dementia she was referred to an empanelled hospital for admission and evaluation of her disease. We took a referral from the ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir for the Fortis Super Specialty Hospital located at Phase 8 Mohali. She was not admitted by the hospital stating that no beds were available. On talking to doctors working with Fortis  Hospital and known to us it was learnt that since ECHS patients are on contractual rates of payment as such the accommodation is generally denied till such time a serious ECHS patient who has to under-go an expensive procedure comes for admission like a heart patient who has to under-go a bypass. We were advised to get the tests done through the Out Patient Department (OPD). She was to be assessed by a Neurologist. It would be pertinent to mention that the Fortis Hospital is around 20 to 25 Kms from the ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir.

4.            The Neurologist did his tests and wanted her condition to be assessed by a Cardiologist. To see the Cardiologist another referral was required from the ECHS Polyclinic so we had to go back to the ECHS Polyclinic to get another referral for the Cardiologist. Since she is also a patient for Thyroid the Cardiologist wanted her to be evaluated by an Endocrinologist this entailed another referral from ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir. So we went back to the Polyclinic to obtain another referral from the ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir. The Endocrinologist wanted the patient to be admitted in the Hospital to administer certain drugs under hospital condition under the supervision of a doctor. We had to go back to ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir to obtain a referral for admission into the hospital. She was again not admitted with an excuse that no beds were available and if she is registered now the bed would be available after 3 to 4 months. We were again advised by the doctors known to us to get the drug administered through the Day-Care unit of the hospital. We had no choice so this was done. All the three consulting specialists prescribed the medicines to be taken by her.

5.            Now to obtain these medicines from the ECHS Polyclinic they had to be counter signed by the concerned specialists at the Western Command Hospital Chandimandir. The medicines which were prescribed some of them had the commercial names and the generic names were not known and one was advised by the OIC Medical Store to obtain these from the market at our own cost and show them the medicine so that they can assess which brand of the medicine with the same generic name was available with them.

6.            The Endocrinologist at the Western Command Hospital wanted another test to be done through an empanelled hospital/Diagnostic Centre for this another referral was to be obtained through the ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir. The referral was obtained the test was done and the results were shown to the Endocrinologist who wanted the test to be repeated after 3 months. The first test was done on 01 Jun 2012 and the repeat test was to be done again on 01 Sep 2012. This entailed another referral.  The referrals which are given have the validity of 30 days. The OIC ECHS Polyclinic Chandimandir was approached on 21 Aug 2012 to obtain the referral. The referral was refused by the OIC ECHS Polyclinic who refused to give the referral and advised to come for the referral   two days prior to the test.

7.            It would be pertinent to mention that even after an operation; if the stitches are to be removed another referral is required from the ECHS Polyclinic.

8.            If a patient takes a referral for a particular hospital and the patient is refused admission then the patient has to go back to the ECHS Polyclinic to obtain referral for another hospital. If that hospital also refuses admission how many times the patient will have to run up and down to get admitted in a hospital is a big question mark. It is also pertinent to mention that the ECHS Polyclinics function between fixed timings so the people concerned are not available at odd  hours.

9.            Here is a condition where the lady is a widow of an Army Officer and has a support system available to her through me. Imagine the condition of a retired JCO or an OR who comes from a village and has to run up and down to obtain the services of an empanelled hospital through the dependant ECHS Polyclinic . It is very difficult for them. The problem gets more compounded when it is the case of a widow with no support system.

10.          ECHS organization in the last 5 years has spent nearly Rs2700 crores. The figures were obtained from the MD ECHS through an RTI. Photocopy of the same is attached for perusal.

11.          The Armed Forces have an R&R Hospital at Delhi which can match any of the best hospitals in the country. We have highly qualified super specialists working with the armed forces. It is also seen that the Government had in the first year of its inception spent around Rs250 crores which has multiplied nearly 3 times to Rs750 crores in the financial year 2011-2012. This amount will further keep increasing. While the cost of treatment is going up the services provided by the empanelled hospitals are going down. Taking referrals for every specialist is  time consuming besides wasting of money and man hour’s it is  difficult for a patient (We must appreciate he/she is not a normal person)to travel all the way to obtain the referrals.

12.          Also it is learnt that these ECHS Polyclinics indulge in corrupt practices as they try to convince you to go to a particular Empanelled Hospital/ Diagnostic Centre. The bills of the empanelled hospitals are not cleared on time till such time money exchanges hands. While talking to some of the doctors who are working in these empanelled hospitals they informed that they had instructions from their Principals to conduct maximum investigations on the patient to make up for the low contractual rates of the ECHS patients. It is also seen that in certain cases the empanelled hospitals keep the patient admitted for a longer duration tha        n it is actually required. Where the admission is based on a package the patient is discharged earlier then the time stipulated in the package

13.          From the above the following is suggested:-

(a)    Open Own Veteran Hospitals. ( It would be seen that the main concentration of Ex-Servicemen is in around, Chandigarh, Delhi, Poona, Bangalore, Madras, Hyderabad , Lucknow , Calcutta, Jallandhar , Amritsar, Jaipur and Jodhpur). By doing this money which is being spent on the medical facilities being purchased will be saved and it would be like hither to fore as was when the patients reported to the Military Hospitals for treatment.

(b)   Upgrade ECHS Polyclinics into hospitals as per requirement depending on patient strength.

(c)    Beef up the bed strength of the existing military hospitals. With the higher strength a case should be taken up with the Government for enhanced promotions of the Commandants of the hospitals.

(d)   Increase of the strength of doctors of these hospitals.

(e)   Employ civilian super specialists with salaries comparable with their counter parts with the civil hospitals.

(f)     The OIC ECHS Polyclinic should be a doctor and not an officer from other arm /service, as a doctor understands the gravity of an investigation as recommended by a medical specialist.

(g)    Before empanelment of a hospital an under-taking should be taken that certain beds would be kept reserved for the ECHS patients and the daily bed state should be displayed at the ECHS polyclinic and also should be displayed on the ECHS web site for each station.

(h)   In order to overcome the requirement of the patient running every-time to the ECHS Polyclinic, a representative, of the ECHS should be available with the empanelled hospitals to give the additional referrals to the patients in situ. However the initial referral may be given by the dependant ECHS Polyclinics as hither to fore.

(i)      A list of the medicines which are available with the ECHS Polyclinics should be given to the empanelled hospitals and the hospitals advised to prescribe only those medicines which are available with the ECHS Polyclinics.

The above actions would mitigate the medical problems of the veterans to a great extant. It may kindly be appreciated that it is not a complaint but an effort to improve the system of functioning of the ECHS for the benefit of the Ex-Servicemen.

Thanking you

                                                                                                                                                                Yours Faithfully

Dated :- 28 Aug 2012                                                                                                                       (Major RS Gujral Retd)