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Victory Flame’ reaches Leh

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‘Victory Flame’ reaches Leh

Army men receive the ‘Victory Flame’ in Leh. Tribune Photo

Leh, July 24

After covering nearly 1,000 km from Delhi, the ‘Victory Flame’ today reached Leh before reaching the final stop at Drass in Kargil district.

At Leh, the ‘Victory Flame’ was received by Lt Gen YK Joshi, GOC, Fire and Fury Corps, from Col Sonam Wangchuk, Kargil war hero and Mahavir Chakra awardee. The flame was kindled at the National War Memorial in New Delhi on July 14 and was lit by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. The flame was carried by relay in all major cities and towns in North India before reaching Leh. It will reach Drass on Friday to commemorate India’s victory over Pakistan in the Kargil conflict. It will be merged with the eternal flame at the Kargil War Memorial in Drass.

During the relay, flame-bears crossed major passes, including Rohtang La, Bara-lacha La, Namki La, Lachulung La and Tanglang La. — TNS

Heavy shelling along LoC, one dead in Mendhar

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Heavy shelling along LoC, one dead in Mendhar

The Pakistan army targeted forward locations/posts of the Indian Army. File photo

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Rajouri, July 20

Amid heavy shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district on Saturday, a man died of heart attack as mortar shells landed near his house, while in another village the deputy sarpanch received splinter injuries and was rushed to the district hospital at Poonch.

The firing and shelling came close to the day-long visit of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistan army targeted forward locations/posts of the Indian Army and many stray mortar shells landed in the villages situated between LoC and the fence.

“Around 9 am, Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation with firing of small arms and shelling with mortars along the LoC in the Mendhar sector. The Indian Army retaliated befittingly,” said Lt Col Davender Anand, PRO Defence.

Dr Parvaiz Khan, Block Medical Officer, Mendhar, said Manzoor Hussain (60) of Dheri Dabsi village died due to heart attack when a few shells landed near his house.

Deputy sarpanch of the Kisti Balnoi panchayat Zaffar-Ullah-Khan received splinter injuries in the right hand and was taken to the Poonch district hospital, he added.

Don’t be miserly with disability pensions for faujis by Nalin Mehta

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For a government that is so invested in its public imagery to promoting the cult of the soldier as the vanguard of the republic, it is strange to see so much soldiering angst over what many in uniform regard as petty bureaucratic moves to curtail their entitlements. The latest flashpoint is the June 24 circular by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) which makes previously tax-free disability pensions, which are paid over and above regular pensions to disabled soldiers, taxable. Only soldiers who are forced to leave service prematurely due to a disability incurred in service are exempt.

It means that other disabled soldiers, like Major General Ian Cardozo (retd) of 5 Gorkha Rifles, who famously amputated his leg with a khukri after a landmine blast in the 1971 war and then went on to become the Indian Army’s first war-disabled officer to command a regiment and brigade, will lose the tax-free status on their disability pensions. All because he soldiered on with one leg to complete service.

Not surprisingly, this has led to much heartburn with several distinguished veterans coming out openly in opposition. To be sure, defence minister Rajnath Singh has assured Parliament that he has sought a clarification from CBDT and emphasised that “under no circumstances” will the government let “whatever conveniences were earlier available in the case of valid disability cases” be reduced.

Equally, Army Headquarters, initially in an unsigned letter tweeted by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and later directly on its own Twitter handle, has defended the tax move. It says it is concerned about misuse and the rising numbers of those receiving disability pensions for what it calls “lifestyle diseases”. The Army’s official view echoes the CBDT chairman’s justification that disability pensions were being misused. This line of reasoning is problematic. First, if there is indeed misuse and if some senior generals have been using their clout with army doctors to get uncalled-for disability status, then the army must fix its system and give exemplary punishment to those gaming it. Instead, its solution of withdrawing the benefit altogether for the entire fraternity is a callous form of collective punishment. It flies against any notion of natural justice.

As former vice chief Lt General Vijay Oberoi (retd) has written: “This withdrawal of IT exemption trivialises me personally, as having lost a leg in the 1965 India-Pakistan war, when I was a captain, I not only soldiered on and competed with my peers… serving the nation and the army for decades, my disability notwithstanding.”

Second, vague allegations of misuse are dangerous and stigmatising. It would be as absurd as believing that just because some erring soldiers indulged in human rights abuses in some cases, the whole force is responsible and must be punished. Like the army weeds out wrong-doers in those specific cases, it must do so in this case too.

Third, we must be careful about denigrating what are being called “lifestyle diseases”. Those receiving disability pensions are doing so under existing rules, duly certified by professional medical boards. If someone suffers oedema as a result of serving in high-altitude areas in Siachen or hypertension as a result of severe stress in zero-error jobs, should we grudge them their pensions?

Fourth, look at what other big countries do for their soldiers. A global benchmarking done by Col DPK Pillay (retd) and Mrityunjay Dubey at Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis shows that the US, the UK and Russia all pay tax-free benefits for disabilities. In the US, veterans can claim these for secondary disabilities (lifestyle diseases) which may come up long after leaving service. In the UK, veterans can claim tax-free benefits for mental disorders up to seven years after an incident.

Governments the world over, for instance, recognise PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Indian Army does not publish PTSD numbers but its soldiers serve longer tours of duty (2-3 years) in active areas than their American counterparts (6 months). As lawyer-soldier Maj Navdeep Singh (retd) has shown: “US military currently pays disability benefits to 4.75 million retirees. On the other hand, the number of such beneficiaries in India… is less than 0.2 million.”

Fifth, the amount spent on disability pensions is minuscule. This is why a committee set up in 2015 by the then defence minister Manohar Parrikar had recommended that all appeals pending against disabled soldiers in the Supreme Court — which dismissed about 800 such cases between 2014-17 — be withdrawn immediately.

Kautilya’s 2,000-year-old Arthashastra has a 30-point list of things that may negatively impact an army’s morale. On top of the list: not being given due honours, not being paid and not being healthy. As the government reviews disability pensions, heeding this ancient treatise would be beneficial.

Foundation stone of Guru Nanak varsity laid in Pakistan

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Foundation stone of Guru Nanak varsity laid in Pakistan

Pakistan Punjab”s Chief Minister Usman Buzdar laying the foundation stone of Baba Guru Nanak International University. — Video grab

Lahore, July 13

The foundation stone of Baba Guru Nanak International University has been laid in Nankana Sahib, the birth place of founder of Sikhism Baba Guru Nanak Dev, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, more that a decade after its construction proposal first surfaced.

The foundation stone of the university was laid by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Friday and would be completed with an amount of over Rs 258 crore spread over 10 acres.

The government, however, has not yet declared about the tentative period the varsity would be built.

“The construction of the BGNU will begin once the legal formalities in this regard are met,” an official of the Punjab government told PTI on Saturday.

He said the work on this project will begin soon since Nankana Sahib falls in the constituency of Federal Interior Minister Brig Ijaz Shah (retd).

“Brig Shah is a powerful minister in PM Imran Khan’s cabinet and on his invitation Punjab CM Buzdar came to Nankana Sahib and laid the foundation stone of the BGNIU,” he said.

Brig Shah recently took over as the interior minister.

During the occasion, Buzdar said various neglected districts like Nankana Sahib will be brought at par with the developed cities.

“Establishment of Baba Guru Nanak University in Nankana Sahib is the part of prime minister’s vision to facilitate students in Nankana Sahib and other adjoining districts,” he said.

The decision to construct the university came after the Sikhs living in Pakistan demanded a university after the name of the founder of their religion Baba Guru Nanak at his birthplace in Nankana Sahib.

The proposal of the university was first surfaced in the Punjab government of Pervaiz Elahi in 2003.

Two years ago in the government of PML-N, the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) gave a final approval to the project.

Then ETPB chairman Siddiqul Farooq said this varsity would help promote religious tourism in Pakistan and also portray country’s good image at international level.

Earlier this year, for the first time a Pakistani university had created the Baba Guru Nanak research chair to promote the message of peace that the Sikh spiritual leader preached.

A motel of the Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) was also inaugurated in Nankana Sahib by the Punjab CM to promote religious tourism.

Buzdar also laid the foundation stone of a road repair project in Nankana Sahib district that will be completed with Rs 150 million.

“A dual road will also be laid from Gurdawara Tanboo Sahib to Gurdwara Janam Asthaan. The road connecting the Guru Nanak University to Nankana-Warburton Road will also be constructed,” a senior official said. — PTI

Six months of Pulwama terror attack: Two households are united in grief, seek relief

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Six months of Pulwama terror attack: Two households are united in grief, seek relief

CRPF head constable Vijay Soreng with second wife and children.

Karmela Devi, 40, sounded sad and anguished on Friday while talking about her late husband, CRPF head constable Vijay Soreng.

The 45-year-old was killed when a suicide bomber rammed his SUV into a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama on February 14, 2019.

“We haven’t any received any compensation till now,” Karmela said. Revealing that the family was struck by a double whammy, she said, “Hum badi wali [wife] hain, ek chhoti wali [wife] bhi hai, unhonay bhi compensation manga hai.”

The national tragedy, Pulwama terror attack, had received strong reactions nationwide. Karmela got married in 1990 and has a 24-year-old son. Her husband left her after her son was born. She joined Jharkhand police and is a havaldar in its Mahila Wing, a desperate move to earn a livelihood as her husband stopped supporting her and their son.

Though separated, Soreng never legally divorced her. His second wife Vimla Devi choked when she was asked to give details of her marriage to the soldier. She got married to Soreng in 2011 with their families’ consent, knowing that he had left his first wife. She gave birth to four children – three girls and one boy. She said, “My husband left his first wife long ago. He was living with us.”

She also has pictures to support that they had a happy family until the tragedy struck them.

“He loved to spend time with us, he did not get along well with his estranged wife Karmela. My eldest daughter is 13-year-old, and the youngest one is seven. He would send us Rs 12000 for education and household expenditure every month.”

After the February terror attack, the only source of income in the family stopped. The once prosperous family has been getting financial help in “bits and pieces” as they chip in to help the family. Both the wives now claim to be the rightful claimant of the benefits and compensation after the soldier died in the line of duty.

Head constable Vijay Soreng, a soldier of 82 Battalion, who was deployed in Srinagar, died when he was returning from leave to join his team in Kashmir. Suicide bomber Adil Dar struck the convoy in Pulwama, blowing to smithereens, the soldier’s body.

That is the last time the family heard from him. CRPF sources said that they found out the matter only after they handed over the body to his wives and aged parents.

Both the women have now staked a claim for remuneration and benefits, putting the CRPF in a fix.

Soreng joined the force in 1993 and as per documentation, he ought to reveal correctly the status of his marriage. But understanding the sensitivity of the matter, the CRPF is awaiting a decision by the local court to settle the matter for the “right precedent”.

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Defence personnel cannot quit job at will to avoid adverse effect on preparedness of forces: SC

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Demonising Soldiers Over Disability Tax Lowers Morale of Entire Army By Lt Gen Hooda

July 7, 2019 webadmin Leave a comment

Those unfairly exploiting the system should be given exemplary punishments, but demonising of soldiers and threatening withdrawal of facilities is not good for the morale of the army.

Lt Gen (Retd) DS Hooda |

Updated:July 4, 2019, 9:01 PM IST

On June 24 ,the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) issued a circular withdrawing the benefit of income tax exemption on the disability pension to military veterans who had retired after serving their full term.
The veteran community rose up in protest against one more instance of bureaucratic apathy towards the armed forces and the typical insensitivity in dealing with disability cases. Facing criticism, the defence minister promised in Parliament that he would look into the matter.
The dust kicked up by the finance ministry circular would probably have died down in a few days after the usual Twitter war and television debates. The outcome would either have been a retraction of the order, as has happened in a few cases in the past, or a weary acceptance by the disabled veterans to start paying the income tax.
However, the events that followed a few days later reignited the debate. These events are, in my opinion, much more worrying when viewed within the broader context of our civil-military relations. On July 2, the Finance Minister tweeted an undated and unsigned letter calling it the “response of the armed forces on the issue of taxability of disability pension”. It is evident that this response came after the CBDT circular had already been issued because it quoted the case of Major General Ian Cardozo who had appeared on some television channels and criticised the government’s move.
Even considering that the finance minister’s decision was based on prior recommendations of the army, the alacrity with which the decision was taken is remarkable. Contrast this with the anomalies of the 7th Pay Commission remaining unresolved, the Justice Reddy report on One Rank, One Pension seemingly buried, and the recommendations of the military on Non-Functional Upgrade not being accepted. The last case is being fiercely contested by the government in the Supreme Court.
There is also a more significant issue of the political leadership placing the military in front while taking policy decisions. Having taken a consistent stance in the past that no one should question the military, there is now an attempt by the government to put the onus for this poor decision on the army. However, in a democracy, policy-making should remain firmly in the hands of the civilian government and hiding behind the military has many adverse implications on the future of our civil-military relations.
It is also worrying that the army has willingly lent its shoulder to a decision that goes against its own soldiers. The language in the letter tweeted by the finance minister was in extremely poor taste, but the speed and manner in which the official Twitter handle of the Indian Army reacted was even more shocking.
In retweeting the letter, it sought to justify the decision based on the exploitation of disability benefits by “unscrupulous personnel” and a rise in “personnel seeking disability, even for lifestyle diseases”.
There are many logical and legal infirmities with the justifications given in the letter, but my intention is not to go into these. What is of greater concern is a growing trend in the army to make public comments that paint its own officers and men in poor light. We regularly read about the misuse of hotel stay, canteen facilities, ex-servicemen health benefits, and now disability pension. If there are infirmities in our procedures, they must be ruthlessly plugged and those unfairly exploiting the system should be given exemplary punishments. However, this demonising of the officers and soldiers and threatening withdrawal of facilities is not good for the morale of the army.
There is an accepted ‘Military Covenant’ between the nation and its soldiers. Some countries like the United Kingdom have formally introduced this term in public life, while others look upon it as an unspoken pact, but the meaning of the covenant is clear. Soldiers put the nation above themselves and willingly sacrifice their limbs and lives in the line of duty.
In return, the state has the moral obligation to value, respect, and support the soldiers and their families with commensurate conditions of service. This is a mutual obligation that forms the basis of the relationship between a country and the members of the armed forces, and any weakening of this bond due to suspicion and mistrust does not bode well.
Many respected veterans have expressed the confidence that the decision on taxing the disability pension will be reversed with the intervention of the defence minister. Mr. Rajnath Singh is an ardent supporter of the soldier, and his first visit after taking charge was to the Siachen Glacier. Among those waiting anxiously for his decision will be the soldier who lost his foot to a mine blast while returning after successfully carrying out the ‘surgical strike’ of September 2016.
(The author is former Northern Commander, Indian Army, under whose leadership India carried out surgical strikes against Pakistan in 2016. Views are personal.)

Wages, pensions eat into defence spending

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Wages, pensions eat into defence spending

Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 5

Weighed down by salaries and pensions, the defence budget announced today remains the same as the one announced on February 1. The allocation is 7.93 per cent of the Budget estimates of the last fiscal.

The budget for this fiscal will be Rs 3,18,931.22 cr ($44.74 billion), the same amount set aside in the interim budget in February, and a sum of Rs 1,12,080 crore has been allocated for defence pensions. The combined budget — for operations, salaries, pensions and capital — stands at Rs 4,31,011 crore, which constitutes 15.5 per cent of the government’s spending.

The budget for the last fiscal was Rs 2,95,511 crore and the hike is Rs 23,420 crore this fiscal.

The services are literally weighed down by bulging “establishment” costs -euphuism for salaries and pensions. The salaries of the three services and the civilians work out to Rs 1,19,620 crore and now form 37.51 per cent of the budget. In other words, salaries and pensions take up more money than what is allocated for modernisation.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who served as the Minister for Defence in the previous government, allowed exemption of basic customs duty on import of defence equipment not manufactured in India.

“This will have an impact of augmenting the defence budget by approximately Rs 25,000 crore on account of savings in expenditure on customs duty over the next five years,” the Ministry of Defence said tonight.

The budget has an allocation of Rs 1,08,248 crore as capital expenses meant for new equipment, weapons, aircraft, naval warships, Army vehicles. The MoD will spend around 31.7 per cent of the total Central Government capital expenditure.

The spending is way behind that of China. Data released by Swedish think-tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on April 29 titled “Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2018” says: “China, the world’s second-largest (behind US) military spender, allocated $250 billion to the military in 2018, which accounted for 14 per cent of all global spending.”

OROP: Protesting veterans meet Rajnath by Dinakar Per

July 6, 2019 webadmin Leave a comment

Ex-servicemen stage a protest over the delay in the implementation of âOne Rank One Pension,â in New Delhi. File

Issue of disability pension also raised

A group of veterans met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh earlier this week to apprise him of their protest demanding the “rightful implementation” of One Rank One Pension (OROP) and the ongoing case in the Supreme Court over the issue.

“He is new to the defence ministry; so we were keen to brief him at the earliest on our main issue, OROP,” A Major General heading the team ,told The Hindu. “He listened to us very patiently. He was non-committal as he has to go through the whole correspondence and go through a process. He said he will speak to us again after that,” Maj. Gen. added. The delegation of seven veterans met the Minister on July 1.

Veterans under all ESM Organisations banners have been protesting at Jantar Mantar since OROP was notified in November 2015 demanding that anomalies be corrected. They have also filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court.

In the last hearing on May 1, the Supreme Court had directed the Defence Ministry to discuss with all stakeholders and remove all the anomalies, Maj. Gen. Singh said. The next hearing is scheduled for August 6.

“Let the government fix the anomalies and we will withdraw the case and stop the agitation,” said Maj Gen , adding that they would also reaccept the 22,000 medals that several veterans had returned in protest. Observing that the veterans had forwarded the Court’s note to then Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, he said the group had written seven letters to Mr. Singh after he assumed office.

OROP implies uniform pension to personnel based on rank and length of service, and irrespective of the date of retirement. The protesting veterans have highlighted three key anomalies which they want corrected. These are the date of implementation, calculation of pension based on the highest slab and not the average as is being done and revision of pension automatically instead of periodically every five years.

Disability pension

The issue of disability pension was also discussed with the minister, said Maj. Gen. Singh. “The Minister said it was done by Finance Ministry and not by Defence Ministry and said he will look into it.” Other issues discussed pertained to veterans’ family issues and a demand for declaring December 16, which marks the end of the Liberation War of Bangladesh, as Victory Day, he added.

Separately, the Disabled War Veterans (India), an organisation of war disabled and battle casualties wrote a letter to the Army on Thursday over the issue of taxing disability pension and the Army’s stand on the issue. “Being at the forefront of issues related to the war disabled, we must put it on record that sensitivity must be displayed towards genuinely disabled with non-operational disabilities also,” the group wrote.

Last month, the Finance Ministry issued a notification which said that tax exemption would be available only to armed forces personnel who have been invalidated from service on account of bodily disability attributable to or aggravated by such service, and not to personnel who have been retired on superannuation or otherwise.

36 MPs purchased junked Army vehicles in last two years

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In the last two years, 36 Members of Parliament purchased vehicles disposed off by the Army, the Ministry of Defence informed Parliament on Monday.

n the last two years, 36 Members of Parliament purchased vehicles disposed off by the Army, the Ministry of Defence informed Parliament on Monday.

The vehicles were made available to all the members who had applied. Eleven MPs were allotted vehicles from Vehicle Sub Depot Meerut, 15 from Ordnance Depot Avadi, three from Central Ordnance Depot Chheoki, two from Central Ordnance Depot Mumbai, two from Central Armoured Fighting Vehicle Depot Kirkee, and one MP each was allotted vehicles from 224 ABOD Jodhpur, Northern Command Vehicle Depot Udhampur and Vehicle Depot Panagarh,” the MoD said.

The Army has a policy of discarding old vehicles that are sent to depots almost as junk as they go past their prime. Army vehicles face heavy wear and tear as they are used in hilly regions with tough terrain and poor roads.

All the Members of Parliament got the vehicle from the same depot from where they had asked for.

This information was given by Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Shripad Naik in a written reply to Shri Ajay Pratap Singh in Rajya Sabha on Monday.

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