Sent: Wed, 28 October, 2009 8:45:39 PM
Subject: ESM sitrep 28 Oct evening
Dear Colleagues,
On a family visit to Jaipur we stayed the Night 27/28 Oct with a Regimental battalion. It was nice being back to the freshness, warmth, and orderliness of a cantonment life. During the usual PT time walk through the officers' colony, we could see a noticeable improvement in the living standards. Roads are better maintained, lawns better manicured. More ACs than coolers can be seen jutting out of windows. Cars are bigger and better. Smartly dressed children could be seen rushing to catch the school buses – not the modified cagey trucks but proper buses. Odd Sahayaks could be seen walking Pugs and Danes, which fact is always used as a battering rod by the bureaucrats wanting the facility taken away.
A Subedar in his 28th Years of service gets 24-25000 in total. The mess waiter, who turned out to be from my own village (and claimed to have been helped by me in getting enrolled), gets a take-home of between 14 and 15000 a month, that includes Salary, MSP, Grade Pay and Transport Allowance. Incidentally, every serving person is getting Rs 1600 pm as transport allowance.
One can have different views whether the existing salaries are adequate compensation for the dangers, hazards and difficulties of Service life. However, during my interaction, everyone from a Safaiwala to a Subedar Major appeared happy with what he gets.
I was pleasantly surprised that all the serving personnel are aware of the IESM and the efforts being made by it for betterment of the ESM. There was near unanimity that the Army is doing a lot for the serving but is not doing enough for the ESM and someone needs to focus in that direction.
New Members
We extend a very warm welcome to the following veterans and families who have joined the IESM:
Ser No Rank Name Place
1. JC402013 SUB RAMDHARI ROHTAK
2. JC1712850 H CAPT WAZIR SINGH ROHTAK
3. JC 695711 SUB SURAN BHAN SIWACH ROHTAK
4. JC 100803 SUB BALWANT SINGH ROHTAK
5. JC1059527 H NB SUB MAHABIR SINGH ROHTAK
6. JC2868263 NK SAT PAUL ROHTAK
7. JC3168755 NK SATBIR SINGH ROHTAK
8. JC3171050 HAV RAJBIR SINGH ROHTAK
9. JC3161619 NK DHANPAL SHINGH ROHTAK
10. JC1377478 HAV RAJBIR SINGH ROHTAK
11. JC1260804 NK DHIR SINGH ROHTAK
12. JC2878358 HAV SAT NARAIN ROHTAK
13. JC3178994 HAV SURESH KUMAR ROHTAK
14. JC13610280 HAV DHIR SINGH ROHTAK
15. JC4543414 HAV BALRAJ ROHTAK
16. JC2867579 HAV KARTAR SINGH ROHTAK
17. JC14290739 NK RANDHIR SINGH SIWACH ROHTAK
18. JC3168520 HAV PREM SINGH ROHTAK
19. JC3160923 HAV SURAJ BHAN ROHTAK
20. JC2858760 NK SUMERA ROHTAK
21. JC3157571 NK MAHAVIR SINGH ROHTAK
22. JC2851675 RFN JAG PAL ROHTAK
23. JC2645327 NK(LATE) MEVI DEVI W/O (LATE) NK ROHTAK
24. JC6882576 NK(LATE) W/O (LATE) BALWAN SINGH ROHTAK
25. JC14290043 L/NK (LATE) JAINO DEVI W/O LATE RAJKUMAR ROHTAK
26. JC3132731 SEP (LATE) RUKMANI W/O LATE RISAL SINGH ROHTAK
27. JC2882240 NK (LATE) MUNI DEVI W/O LATE BHIM SINGH ROHTAK
28. JC3168068 HAV(LATE) KALA DEVI W/O LATE JAGDISH CHANDER
29. JC3144697 NK(LATE) CHANDRO W/O LATE DHANA RAM ROHTAK
30. JC6902556 NK MAHA SINGH ROHTAK
31. JC6480199 SEP PARTAP SINGH ROHTAK
32. JC1448635 L/NK RAMDHARI ROHTAK
33. JC6817776 SEP JAGDISH RAI ROHTAK
34. JC1085848 DHARAM VIR SINGH ROHTAK
35. JC16395 RAM SARUP ROHTAK
36. JC036637 SUB (LATE) KRISHNA DEVI W/O SUB NAFE SINGH
37. JC1496422 SEP (LATE) CHAMELIDEVI W/O SEP SULTAN SINGH
38. JC14202589 L/NK(LATE) ROSHNI DEVI W/O RAM KANWAR ROHTAK
39. JC95346 SUB(LATE) DHANO DEVI W/O GOPI RAM ROHTAK
40. JC15051 SEP (LATE) JEEVO W/O JAGI RAM ROHTAK
41. JC2571961 SUB MAJ KAMAN SINGH DIWA ROHTAK
42. JC218261 N/SUB RANBIR SINGH ROHTAK
43. JC1253855 NK UMED SINGH ROHTAK
44. JC15177724 NK SUNDER SINGH ROHTAK
45. JC36071 SEP(LATE) KASTURI DEVI W/O DIWAN SHINGH
Best regards,
Lt Gen (Emeritus) Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Chairman IESM
