February 8th, 2009
About 300 Ex-Servicemen of city accompanied by a few of their family members took out a silent procession from Town Hall to Deputy Commissioner’s office here this morning and presented a charter of demands. Earlier to that, they had a meeting at Town Hall.
Addressing the gathering at the Meet, Major General C.K. Karumbaya (retd.) announced that an All India Campaign has been launched today to highlight the woes of Ex-servicemen and serving defence personnel (See page 7 for full text of his speech).
Procession
The participants of the Meet later marched in total silence to the DC’s office carrying placards which read ‘One rank - One pension, Respect Veterans, Remove Injustice of 6th Pay Commission’ and such. They submitted a charter of demands to the DC. Receiving the memorandum, DC P. Manivannan assured the exservicemen that he would forward the charter of demands to the concerned persons. He reassured that the District Sainik Board, headed by himself, which had remained dormant of late would resume its monthly meetings on the 4th Saturday of every month soon. Available land for distribution to Ex-servicemen would be identified soon, he assured. Ex-servicemen Maj. Gen. Subba Rao, Maj. Gen. S.G. Vombatkere, Sergeants M.N. Subramanya, Suresh, G.T. Bhat and others led the procession.
EX-SERVICEMEN Defence services TAKE OUT SILENT MARCH - Sixth pay commisssion
‘Military personnel want restoration of parity of status with civil officials’
Following is the text of the speech made by Maj. Gen. C.K. Karumbaya, SM (retd.) at the meeting of ex-servicemen at the Town Hall today before the silent march:
I welcome you veterans, family members and our well-wishers from the civil fraternity who have assembled here for our historic protest march today. It is perhaps for the first time in the history of Independent India that Ex-Servicemen from all over the country have been constrained to unite and protest like other civilian bodies to get our grievances redressed.
“We would have been spared from resorting to this unpleasant means, had the political authority and the Ministry of Defence (wholly staffed by civilian bureaucrats unlike most countries where Defence Service personnel are also included in the staff) had shown understanding of the peculiarities of the Defence Services vis-a-vis other civil services.
“It is most unfortunate that in India, the political authority advised by civilian bureaucrats, in spite of insincere words of praise uttered periodically, have failed to recognise the contributions made by the Defence Services. Instead, they have been continually lowering the status of military personnel vis-a-vis their civilian counterparts. The Sixth Pay Commission which has no representative from Defence Services have inflicted body blow to whatever left of the prestige and honour of Defence Services personnel by lowering their status much below that of even the Police! It seems that our politicians in power are only bothered about pleasing civil officials with selfish motives at the cost of Defence Service personnel who sacrifice so much for the Nation.
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