Born on November 14, 1927, he was commissioned in the 5/1 Battalion of Gorkha Rifles in 1950
Hyderabad, April 28
Major General Chittoor Venugopal (Retd), hailing from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra for his leadership in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, passed away following cardiac arrest late on Tuesday.
Born on November 14, 1927, he was commissioned in the 5/1 Battalion of Gorkha Rifles in 1950. He later commanded the same battalion as a Lieutenant Colonel during the 1971 war.
The 5/1 Gorkha Rifles was tasked to attack the well-fortified positions of Pakistan at Uthali and Darsana locations of Jessore in the Eastern Sector.https://dacca3d45be01ff50bd19d722051bd4a.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
These positions had a series of concrete pillboxes interconnected with communication trenches. Lt Col C Venugopal made a meticulous plan of attack and successfully captured two important positions which caused the enemy to withdraw.
The 5/1 Gurkha Rifles pursued the retreating enemy without giving them any rest or time to regroup that led to the capture of Jhenida Post, Jessore within three days. For his leadership and aggressive battle planning resulting in large military gains, he was awarded the second highest gallantry award, Maha Vir Chakra, a defence statement said.
Post retirement, the General had limited social interaction and led a bachelor’s life in the White House at Tirupati. The sad demise of the brave son of the soil of Andhra Pradesh is a great loss to the Army and the nation as a whole, the statement added.
His last journey was curtailed due to the Covid pandemic and a ceremonial wreath laying ceremony was organised at Tirupati with limited attendance of relatives, civil dignitaries and the Armed Forces veterans.
Major General Chittoor Venugopal donated his mortal remains to Sri Venkateshwara Medical College, added the defence statement. IANS
yderabad: Former Major General Chittoor Venugopal, PVSM, MVC, passed away on Tuesday evening after suffering a cardiac arrest. Commissioned into 5/1 Battalion of Gorkha Rifles in 1950, he later commanded the same battalion as a Lieutenant Colonel during the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
Tasked with attacking well-fortified Pakistani positions at Uthali and Darsana in Jassore in Eastern Sector, he laid a meticulous plan of attack and captured two important positions which caused the enemy to withdraw. The battalion then pursued the withdrawing enemy and captured Jhenida Post, Jessore within three days. For his leadership and planning that resulted in large military gains, he was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC), the second-highest gallantry award.
Post retirement, he led a bachelor life in the White House at Tirupati. His last journey was curtailed due to Covid pandemic and the ceremonial wreath laying was organised at Tirupati, with limited attendance of relatives, civil dignitaries and armed forces veterans.
Army sets up cell to ensure ‘decent last rites’ for veterans, dependents succumbing to Covid
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New Delhi: Faced with an increase in number of cases of either veterans or dependents of its personnel succumbing to the deadly second Covid-19 wave, the Army has set up a special cell at the Delhi Cantonment to provide “decent last rites” to members of its own family, ThePrint has learnt.
This comes at a time the Army has stepped its efforts to help the civil administration in fighting the Covid-19 crisis.https://2754e1208152aa641e2db363f876528c.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
While the focus of the nation remains on doing everything possible to save each precious life, the Army silently continues to carry out its time-honoured duty of bidding a fitting farewell to its personnel who have succumbed to the virus, a source in the force said.
The Army has an Assured Decent Last Rites Scheme (ADLRS). Under this scheme, every local station has a system and budget meant for all cases of fallen soldiers — from receiving the body at the airport, further transportation and giving funds to the family for the last rites.
However, keeping the deadly wave in mind and the rising numbers, a special cell has been created to take care of Covid-related cases involving veterans and dependents.
All aspects of the cremation, organised at the Brar Square Crematorium in the Delhi Cantonment, is handled by a Special Cell created at the Delhi Cantonment, sources said.
Additional personnel have been mobilised and special hearse vans have been hired to ensure that families are provided full support for a hassle-free cremation, they added.
In cases where it is not possible to move the mortal remains to Brar Square, necessary coordination is being done with the state or district administration to ensure proper last rites.
“And where no family member is available to handle the last rites, this solemn duty is also being undertaken by the Army,” a second source said.
The sources refused to give specific figures of the last rites done and the actual increase in cases because of Covid.
All Covid & Army protocols followed
Sources said that the last rites are being conducted with proper Covid-19 protocols as well as Army traditions.
The soldiers involved in the process have all been given proper PPE kits and even the wreath laid are also covered up on the sides to ensure all safety protocols are put in place.
The Army has already converted the Base Hospital in the Cantonment as a full-fledged Covid facility and moved patients there to the Army Research and Referral Hospital.
New Delhi: The Army, the Navy and the Air Force have sought emergency financial powers from the defence ministry to expedite critical procurement needed to build additional infrastructure to tackle the growing burden of the coronavirus pandemic, ThePrint has learnt.
According to sources in the government, the proposals seeking emergency financial powers for additional infrastructure — such as quarantine facilities and equipping them with stores, ration and other materials — for a period of three months are currently under the active consideration of the government.
A decision on this is expected shortly. The services were granted emergency financial powers last year too.
Once approved, the emergency powers could range from delegating full financial powers to providing spending powers of Rs 20 lakh to the heads of different formations of the three services.
For example, last year, Army commanders were sanctioned full financial powers, while corps commanders or area commanders were made eligible to spend Rs 50 lakh, and division commanders or sub-area commanders could spend Rs 20 lakh on Covid-related infrastructural work in their espective jurisdiction.
The development comes after the defence ministry last week sanctioned invoking Schedule 8.1 of Delegation of Financial Powers to Defence Services (DFPDS-2016), which deals with the grant of emergency financial powers to the Armed Forces Medical Service (AFMS) upto 30 September 2021.
Schedule 8.1 of DFPDS-2016 provides for full financial powers to the Director General (DG), Armed Forces Medical Service (AFMS) for procurement of medical items, materials and stores.
In addition, DGs Medical Services in the service headquarters of the Army, Navy and Air Force have also been granted financial powers of Rs 5 crore. At the field level in Commands/Corps, Rs 3 crore will be made available to a Major General-equivalent and another Rs 2 crore to a brigadier-equivalent officer of the AFMS.
These emergency financial powers will also be utilised for providing various services on treatment and management of Covid-19.
In addition, Schedule 2.5 of DFPDS also provides for expenditure upto 5 lakh per day per patient to commandants of Military Hospitals headed by a Lieutenant General.
It will also accord spending powers of Rs 3 lakh and Rs 2 lakh on hospitals headed by Major Generals and Brigadiers. Defence sources told The Print that this schedule is also being used for managing the pandemic.
This is, however, different from the emergency financial powers sought by the services for their commands.
According to defence sources, the services have pointed out the exponential rise in Covid cases and thus the requirement of augmenting infrastructure of military hospitals and quarantine facilities with materials, equipment, stores, rations, beds and ambulances, to tackle the health crisis.
This will also include personal protection gear, sanitisation and other medical equipment.
“There was emphasis on how invoking emergency powers will help in better management of the Covid-19 situation and aid repairs and faster procurement of medicines and other medical equipment needed for the pandemic on a real-time mode,” a defence source said.
As reported by ThePrint, last year too, the Ministry of Defence had granted emergency financial powers to Army commanders, corps commanders as well as division or sub-area commanders to expedite procurement related to establishing and running quarantine facilities, among other things, for an initial period of three months, which was later extended by three more months.
The powers were later also given to Naval and Air Force commanders and other senior officers of the services.
When are these powers exercised
The emergency powers to the three services enumerated under different schedules of the DFPDS-2016 are exercised as and when the government notifies an event through an order declaring war, hostility, natural calamity or disaster or when the defence minister declares and orders military preparedness for emergency or other immediate military necessities.
It will also be applicable as and when a proposal, mooted by the service chiefs, is approved by the defence minister for immediate action to be taken in case of a series of incidents or when the Army is requisitioned for internal security duties.
Procurement powers under various heads vary and are enhanced in consultation with the Integrated Financial Adviser (IFA), who is from the Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA).
On Monday, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the preparations and operations undertaken by the armed forces to tackle the pandemic.
Defence ministry has sanctioned additional staff, including a medical officer, a nursing assistant & a pharmacist, for 51 ‘high pressure’ ECHS polyclinics for 3 months.
New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has sanctioned additional contractual medical staff at 51 “high pressure” Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) polyclinics for three months.
The new staff — including a medical officer, a nursing assistant and a pharmacist, among others — will be over and above the authorised staff strength at the polyclinics, the defence ministry said in a tweet.https://0393a91a87522a63831e407ec18f7174.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The idea is to ensure that these polyclinics are operational round the clock for ECHS beneficiaries requiring urgent medical attention, particularly in the wake of the additional burden they are facing during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, defence sources told ThePrint.
Most of the identified polyclinics are located in metros which are densely populated. There are over 400 ECHS polyclinics operating across India.
Senior defence officials told ThePrint the decision was taken Monday.
The move is part of a fresh set of efforts initiated by the government and the armed forces for the veterans. The sources said it possibly stems from the concerns that a large number of the veterans were not being able to avail the services of these polyclinics and other military hospitals due to a surge in Covid-positive patients seeking treatment there.
“The move was initiated in the wake of the burgeoning Covid-19 positive cases to ensure that ECHS polyclinics are equipped well beyond their usual timings to attend to serious and emergency cases requiring urgent medical attention,” a defence source said.
The source said while most patients with mild symptoms have been advised home quarantine, there are cases that require continuous monitoring.
“Thus the need for additional staff in polyclinics to provide urgent medical attention to patients, particularly in the night hours,” said a services officer.
The ECHS provides allopathic and AYUSH medicare to ex-servicemen pensioners and their dependents through a network of polyclinics, service medical facilities, civil empanelled or government hospitals and specified government AYUSH hospitals across India.
The scheme has been structured on the lines of the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) to ensure cashless transactions for the patients. It is financed by the central government.
Last week, Southern Army Commander Lieutenant General J.S. Nain wrote to veterans, stating that serving and retired personnel would be provided the same medical treatment and facilities amid the spiralling coronavirus positive cases.
Recently, Western Army Commander Lt. Gen. R.P. Singh also assured armed forces veterans and their families of medical care and other requisite assistance, stating that all military hospitals will be accepting ECHS beneficiaries and all ECHS polyclinics and ex-servicemen cells will proactively deal with Covid cases among veterans and their families.
Earlier, ECHS beneficiaries were told to explore telehealth facilities at the triservice teleconsultation service of the defence ministry at www.sehatopd.in to avoid a risk of contracting the virus.
Moreover, a sanction for purchase of prescribed medicines to ECHS beneficiaries from any available pharmacy has been accorded, for which they can claim reimbursements upto 31 July 2021. This will prevent crowding at polyclinics.
The Army has also set up a cell to ensure ‘decent last rites’ for veterans, dependents who are succumbing to Covid-19.
New Delhi: The Indian Army said on Tuesday it is committed to give care and treatment for COVID-19 to its veterans and would like them to approach the nearest Army facility for any kind of assistance.
“The Indian Army is taking multiple steps to enhance its medical capacities on account of rise in COVID-19 cases amongst the veterans and their dependents,” its statement noted.
The base hospital at Delhi and service hospitals at all military stations are working tirelessly to accommodate maximum veterans, it said.
These hospitals are continuously ramping up their capacities to ensure that beds are available, the statement added.
Veterans affected by COVID-19 are being guided and assisted in getting medical advice and admission in various hospitals, it noted.
With 3,23,144 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases has climbed to 1,76,36,307, while the national recovery rate has further dropped to 82.54 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The death toll increased to 1,97,894 with 2,771 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
US pullout will lead to a race for natural resources, with China as the most active player
FLOWING OUT: A recent American study has indicated that the war in Afghanistan has cost the US treasury a mind-boggling $2.26 trillion. Reuters
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US President Joe Biden announced on February 14 that all American troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11. This would bring to an end the longest war in US history whose roots were laid two decades earlier. On September 11, 2001, US cities were subjected to four coordinated attacks, masterminded by the Al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, operating from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. As many as 2,977 Americans died. The attacks led to the most prolonged US military operations ever. US commandos killed Osama in Pakistan’s Abbottabad. He was living at a virtual stone’s throw away from Pakistan’s military academy. American diplomacy was so confused and inept that rather than censuring and sanctioning Pakistan, successive US Presidents acted as virtual apologists for the Pakistan army.
The Afghanistan government would require financial assistance from the US and its allies, together with military supplies and air support, to survive.
A recent American study has indicated that the war in Afghanistan has cost the US treasury a mind-boggling $2.26 trillion and resulted in 2.41 lakh people killed, including 2,372 US military personnel. Thanks to Pakistan’s omnipresent ISI, the Afghan conflict also saw the emergence of closer ties between the ISI, the Taliban, and Afghanistan-based Pakistani terrorist groups operating against India. These included the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba. These links will inevitably continue. The Taliban, after all, treated the hijackers of IC 814 like heroes, as India surrendered ignominiously, releasing terrorists like Maulana Masood Azhar, Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Zargar.
Contrary to popular belief, Afghanistan is not a monolithic country. The country has 14 distinct ethnic and linguistic denominations, including Pashtuns, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Balochis, Turkmen and Uzbeks. Pashtuns, who constitute 40.9% of the population, are mainly in southern Afghanistan. The Tajiks, constituting 37-39%, live in northern Afghanistan bordering Central Asia. The Durand Line drawn arbitrarily by the British is not accepted as an international border by Afghan Pashtuns, who believe Afghanistan’s borders extend to the Indus near Attock in Pakistan. The main question posed today is, why is there so much interest, and, indeed, rivalry among China, the US, Russia, the EU, Pakistan and others to have a finger in the Afghan pie?
A major reason for this extraordinary external interest of these powers in Afghanistan is that it is a goldmine of mineral and material resources. The country’s high-quality emeralds, rubies, etc., have long excited the international gemstone market. The United States Geological Survey has concluded that Afghanistan may hold 60 million metric tonnes of copper, 2.2 billion tonnes of iron ore, 1.4 million tonnes of rare earth elements, and veins of aluminum, gold, silver, etc. From the point of view of mining tycoons, these resources are there for the picking. The US withdrawal will lead to a race for access to Afghanistan’s natural resources, with China as the most active participant.
Pakistan is obsessed with using Afghanistan for ‘strategic depth’ to promote terrorism in India. In the days before the 9/11 US intervention, the ‘strategic depth’ that Pakistan received in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan was the availability of training camps for its jihadi groups. In days after US intervention, the Taliban provided facilities for Pakistan-based groups to attack Indian consulates in Herat and Jalalabad. The Indian embassy in Kabul has been under constant threat of attacks. Indian engineers and professional staff working on development projects in Afghanistan face similar threats.
With the passage of time, the Taliban will seek to obtain dominant control of territory. The Taliban and other ISI protégés, like the Haqqani network, could overrun significant parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan. New Delhi needs to make a careful assessment on whether it would be feasible, or desirable, to join others in providing weapons and equipment, including air power, to the Afghan armed forces.
A major feature of Indian involvement in the Afghan conflict, prior to US intervention, was India’s close ties with Iran and Tajikistan, which were transit points for Indian military and relief assistance to the Afghan resistance, known as the Northern Alliance. Tajik war hero Ahmed Shah Masood then led the resistance. Iran has sectarian and ethnic aversions for the Taliban, though it presently seems to have opted to proceed cautiously. Iran can intervene when the Taliban seeks to take control of non-Pashtun, or Shia-dominated areas in Afghanistan’s provinces bordering Iran, or Central Asian Republics like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
At the same time, the Russians who backed the Northern Alliance prior to the American invasion, now appear to be singing a different tune by backing the Taliban. One wonders how the Russians will respond to concerns in their erstwhile Soviet Republics in Central Asia about the Taliban reaching their borders. Trends on these issues need to be analysed and acted on. New Delhi should undertake detailed discussions not only with the Afghan government, but also major regional leaders in Afghanistan on how to proceed in the coming months. An odd development one faces is that the Afghan ‘peace process’ treats the Afghanistan government and the Taliban on a virtually equal footing. Little thought seems to have been given on how to politically deal with the Taliban, which has the support of only a section of Afghanistan’s Pashtun population. It is, however, unlikely that the Taliban can prevail over the Afghan national army across the entire Pashtun heartland.
The Afghan government would require financial assistance from the US and its allies, together with military supplies and air support, to survive. Given past American policies, one can never be sure of assistance, particularly air support from the US, in the future. India would have to keep in touch with a wide cross-section of Afghan political leaders as the resistance to a Taliban takeover would be strong and widespread. It would, however, be prudent to retain contacts with sections of the Taliban. Pakistan will, in the long run, face territorial and other claims by any government in Afghanistan which is sensitive to Pashtun aspirations.
DRDO to set up two 500-bed hospitals in Jammu, Srinagar
A worker checks medical oxygen cylinders at Government Medical College and Hospital in Jammu on Wednesday. PTI
Jammu, April 28
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will set up two 500-bed Covid hospitals in Jammu and Srinagar, officials said on Wednesday.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, while chairing a high-level meeting, reviewed the proposal to set up the hospitals, they added. Bhalla asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to immediately identify suitable locations for constructing the hospitals. He also asked the DRDO to evaluate and submit the corresponding proposal estimates through a team of experts.
The meeting was informed that the administration has identified two patches of land in Jammu and Srinagar for the purpose. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, Financial Commissioner, Health, Atal Dulloo, the Union secretaries of the departments concerned and officers from the DRDO, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the AFMS Institute attended the meeting. To mitigate the shortages in medical facilities, it was requested that the temporary DRDO Covid hospitals be constructed in time, an official spokesperson said. — PTI
Medical oxygen stocks set to surge in J&K
In an attempt to pre-empt the medical catastrophe that has afflicted Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and some other states, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has taken a major initiative to boost the oxygen manufacturing across the Union Territory.
Even as most of the major hospitals in Kashmir are already equipped with independent oxygen manufacturing plants, the authorities have stepped up the process of addingsix new plants to the system within a fortnight. PTI
84-hr lockdown in 11 districts
An 84-hour lockdown would be imposed in 11 districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday evening in a bid to tackle the surge in Covid-19 cases, a senior official said.
The curfew would come into effect at 7 pm on Thursday and remain in force till 7 am on Monday. Eleven districts, including Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla, Budgam, Kulgam, Pulwama, Ganderbal, Jammu, Kathua, Reasi, Udhampur will be under curfew. PTI
Transporters want passenger fare up
Protesting against the administration’s order capping the seating capacity in public transport at 50 per cent amid the Covid-19 pandemic, dozens of transporters held a protest here on Wednesday, demanding a hike in passenger fare for the survival of the economically-hit” industry. Private transporters have been on an indefinite strike since April 21. PTI
The Indian Air Force (IAF) airlifted nine cryogenic oxygen containers from Dubai and Singapore and has brought them to the Panagarh air base in West Bengal, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday.
These containers were brought on Tuesday, it said.
In addition, the IAF’s C-17 aircraft on Tuesday also airlifted two cryogenic oxygen containers from Indore to Jamnagar, two from Jodhpur and Udaipur to Jamnagar and two from Hindon to Ranchi, it said.
“IAF’s C-17s have airlifted six cryogenic oxygen containers from Dubai to Panagarh Air Base. Another C-17 brought three oxygen containers from Singapore to Panagarh Air Base,” the statement said.
The IAF also airlifted eight cryogenic oxygen containers from Hyderabad to Bhubaneswar, two from Bhopal to Ranchi and two from Chandigarh to Ranchi, it said.
India is struggling with the second wave of the coronavirus infection and hospitals in several states are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds in view of a rising number of Covid cases.
The IAF has been airlifting empty oxygen tankers and containers to various filling stations across the country to speed up the distribution of the much-needed medical oxygen in treating Covid patients. PTI
Technology already installed at Ladakh and north-east
Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, April 28
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been asked to set up 500 medical oxygen plants within three months with money coming from the ‘PM cares fund’.
“Site preparation for five plants to be installed in Delhi/NCR region has already been initiated,” the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
Transfer of technology has been done to Tata Advanced Systems Limited, Bengaluru, that will make 332 of these plants.https://053161fb01f9b454302c786c99827158.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Trident Pneumatics, Coimbatore, will produce 48 of these plants. “A supply order has been made to the two companies,’ the MoD said.
Each of these plants is designed for a capacity of 1,000 litres of oxygen per minute. The system caters for 190 patients at a flow rate of five litres per minutes, it can charge 195 cylinders per day.
Another 120 plants with capacity of making 500 litres of oxygen per minute will be produced by industries working with Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, belonging to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The MoD has set the DRDO a target of producing 125 oxygen plants per month and 380 of these – from Tata and Trident — will be installed within three months.
The oxygen producing units based on this technology have already been installed at some of the sites of the Indian Army in North East and also in the Ladakh Region where the tree-less expanse at an altitude of 14,000 provides very little natural oxygen.
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