Hon y Capt pandey and Wg cdr Ck Sharma..13 Sep 2009
col RP Chaturvedi and Wg Cdr CK Sharma at the JAntar Mantar ..medal collection..13 sep 2009
Gen Satbir & col RP Chaturvedi and Wg Cdr CK Sharma at the JAntar Mantar 13 Sep
Dear Friends,
Jai Hind,
In spite of evil designs of some trouble creators, the mission of IESM on 13 Sep 09, for depositing more medals with the President of India was fully successful.
Five thousand more medals were deposited with the President.
A media report received kind courtesy Cmde LK Batra, is reproduced below.
Some of the photographs taken by me at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, where medals were first collected and then sent to The President, are reproduced below.
Some more photographs will follow.
In Service of Indian Military Veterans
Chander Kamboj.
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From: Lokesh K Batra lkbatra@rediffmail.com
To: kamboj_cs@yahoo.co.in
Sent: Sunday, 13 September, 2009 7:56:04 PM
Subject: Indopia/PTI : Ex-servicemen returns 5,000 service medals; demands OROP
(Cmde LK Batra)
Indopia
http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/669129/National/1/20/1
Ex-servicemen returns 5,000 service medals; demands OROP
Published: September 13,2009
New Delhi, Sept 13 Ex-servicemen today returned about 5,000 service medals to the President in protest against the government&aposs"total apathetic attitude"towards their demand of One Rank One Pension (OROP).
A ten-member team led by General (Retd) B K Ranjan returned the medals, which 4,000 ex-servicemen had voluntarily deposited, to the President, Maj Gen (Retd) Satbir Singh, vice-chairman of the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM), said.
The organisation deposited the service medals"to make the government see the demands", he added.
"It is because of the bureaucracy and political parties that our demands remain unaddressed. Why does the government not meet the demands of the most strongest pillar of democracy?" Singh asked.
The creation of two groups -&apospre 2006&aposand&apospost 2006&apos- by the government had led to"a wide gap"in the pension scale for the various ranks, he said.
"A Havildar gets less than a Sepoy. A Major General gets less than Lt Colonel who is four ranks junior to the former. There is only a difference of some 1,000 rupees among the four ranks between Lt Col and Major General,"he said.
According to the IESM, the retired personnels had earlier returned around 15,000 medals and this was the fifth time when the organisation has deposited the medals to the President
