IESM: Need for Dissemination

1. IES Movement is undoubtedly laudable as it is centric on issues of all ex service (ES) personnel as much as it has been perceived by the leading group burning with passion and zeal to get the justice to the community now getting humiliated and agitated yet remaining within the bounds of self taught discipline and dignity. However, the day these self proclaimed and defined limits are over-stepped and exceeded, an uncontrollable situation can develop from where there will be no going back. This is what I have assessed after interacting with only a few veterans on relay hunger strike. Their passion was strikingly clear and visible. It is undoubtedly an admirable asset for the IESM.

2. For a movement to survive and achieve its objectives, dissemination of the information to all concerned is absolutely essential. There can be no two ways about it. What I see as of now is that there is effort on dissemination but it appears to be limited to within its members and e-net-work but this needs to be enlarged to be clearly visible to the public. While our approach to the Govt is admirable and has been going on for many years ,and many times even through the political high-fi, but the net result has been denial ultimately. We have not created public awareness so far to our advantage. This appears to be the missing link. As on today, general public feels that the defence forces are well looked after and the men have got good raise in pay.

3. We have failed in creating the correct perspective in the minds of the public, the indian citizens, as far as the mission and objectives of the IESM are concerned. We have to get hold of the Media for dissemination of the information. This propaganda has to be vigorous and aggressive. Every indian must know what we, the ES and the men in uniform, are suffering from and why our legitimate demands are being denied by the Govt. Ideally we should have our own News Paper which could take the cause of the Defence Forces and the IES, boldly. But this may not be possible at this stage and therefore, the need to patronize a news paper which could devote a portion of its page to our cause on daily basis as long as the agitation continues; this is the bare minimum requirement.

4. Without funds no movement can progress and hence liberal contributions are required from the members, the fraternity of ES and the to be ES. Our appeals to them should continue on daily basis. The daily collections on account of donations and the members enrolled be put on the net (blog) for every member to know and encourage others to follow. All our efforts should be united and emerge from one single platform and hence all the respected senior ES including the Ex Chiefs should formally join the movement as already propagated through "Report My Signal Blog".
"WITH STRONG DETERMINATION AND SUSTAINED EFFORTS WE WILL WIN"

I.JAIRATH
Gp Capt (Retd)
CLUB-20