IS THIS HOW WE TREAT OUR WAR HEROES??????
One just witnessed the rather heart rending and sorry spectacle of a NSG commando and hero of the tumultuous events that unfolded on the night of 26/11 in the maximum city narrating his litany of woes and berating the callous system that has left him to fend for himself........
The hero in question is one Surender Kumar a former NSG commando and integral part of the 26/11 operations, the very same person was critically wounded during the course of the operation, underwent the prescribed course of treatment at various government hospitals and was conveniently dismissed form service by his employers who deemed him to be medically unfit for active duty and operations........
Mr. Kumar claims that he was made to run from pillar to post in order to get recourse to the pension that was his just due and the very same has not been forthcoming for the last year and more for reasons best known to the authorities........
He also goes on to say that he was the sole earning member of the family and that his wife and progeny are dependent on him for their livelihood, he somehow managed to tide over this period of crisis thanks to the timely help rendered by a few good samaritans, but is now being denied the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by him during the course of these fateful 13 months by the Central Government Health Scheme officials on the flimsiest of grounds.........
The grounds on which his claims for reimbursement were rejected indeed have to be heard to be believed and those grounds were that he had neither informed the CGHS authorities before embarking on this course of treatment nor sought the required permissions in this regard at their end........
Surender Kumar's rejoinder to this absurd rejection is both topical as well as coldly logical, according to him the CGHS card came his way around six to seven months back and therefore where was the need and occasion to seek the necessary permissions and information that the CGHS authorities are seeking from him........
This war hero also goes on to narrate how his efforts to seek requisite information about the number of wounded and dead during the course of the very same operation and monies collected from various sources and disbursal of the same to the families of the dead and wounded were repeatedly stonewalled by the NSG higher ups despite the said information being sought under the purview of the much touted right to information act..........
While one may tend to give the system and the NSG higher ups the benefit of doubt on the grounds that these claims may indeed be motivated and a gross exaggeration if the real version of events the fact remains that we are indeed highly callous in our treatment of our war heroes and tend them to take them for granted more often than not...........
The very least that the government of the day and the system can do is to give this war hero the requisite details of the issues dear to him and issue an enquiry into the rather serious allegations levelled by him against the NSG authorities by either a sitting or retired high or supreme court judge so that the truth can be brought out in this case and the findings of the one man commission could also help in setting right the anomalies that have crept in within the system during due course of time........
WAR HEROES ARE INDEED A PRECIOUS COMMODITY AND NEED TO BE HANDLED WITH DUE CARE AND DILIGENCE, failing which this already highly endangered species might indeed become extinct and look us groping for grossly unsuitable alternatives whenever their services are required the most..............
One just witnessed the rather heart rending and sorry spectacle of a NSG commando and hero of the tumultuous events that unfolded on the night of 26/11 in the maximum city narrating his litany of woes and berating the callous system that has left him to fend for himself........
The hero in question is one Surender Kumar a former NSG commando and integral part of the 26/11 operations, the very same person was critically wounded during the course of the operation, underwent the prescribed course of treatment at various government hospitals and was conveniently dismissed form service by his employers who deemed him to be medically unfit for active duty and operations........
Mr. Kumar claims that he was made to run from pillar to post in order to get recourse to the pension that was his just due and the very same has not been forthcoming for the last year and more for reasons best known to the authorities........
He also goes on to say that he was the sole earning member of the family and that his wife and progeny are dependent on him for their livelihood, he somehow managed to tide over this period of crisis thanks to the timely help rendered by a few good samaritans, but is now being denied the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by him during the course of these fateful 13 months by the Central Government Health Scheme officials on the flimsiest of grounds.........
The grounds on which his claims for reimbursement were rejected indeed have to be heard to be believed and those grounds were that he had neither informed the CGHS authorities before embarking on this course of treatment nor sought the required permissions in this regard at their end........
Surender Kumar's rejoinder to this absurd rejection is both topical as well as coldly logical, according to him the CGHS card came his way around six to seven months back and therefore where was the need and occasion to seek the necessary permissions and information that the CGHS authorities are seeking from him........
This war hero also goes on to narrate how his efforts to seek requisite information about the number of wounded and dead during the course of the very same operation and monies collected from various sources and disbursal of the same to the families of the dead and wounded were repeatedly stonewalled by the NSG higher ups despite the said information being sought under the purview of the much touted right to information act..........
While one may tend to give the system and the NSG higher ups the benefit of doubt on the grounds that these claims may indeed be motivated and a gross exaggeration if the real version of events the fact remains that we are indeed highly callous in our treatment of our war heroes and tend them to take them for granted more often than not...........
The very least that the government of the day and the system can do is to give this war hero the requisite details of the issues dear to him and issue an enquiry into the rather serious allegations levelled by him against the NSG authorities by either a sitting or retired high or supreme court judge so that the truth can be brought out in this case and the findings of the one man commission could also help in setting right the anomalies that have crept in within the system during due course of time........
WAR HEROES ARE INDEED A PRECIOUS COMMODITY AND NEED TO BE HANDLED WITH DUE CARE AND DILIGENCE, failing which this already highly endangered species might indeed become extinct and look us groping for grossly unsuitable alternatives whenever their services are required the most..............
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