Army Commander releases a book 'Pension in the Defence Services' by Maj Navdeep Singh Punjab Newsline Network
Wednesday, 04 March 2009
CHANDIGARH: Calling it as a need of the hour for the officers and personnel of all the three Defence Services, Lt Gen TK Sapru GOC-in-C, Western Command released a book, written by Major Navdeep Singh, a High Court Advocate and also a decorated Territorial Army volunteer titled ‘Pension in the defence services’ Wednesday at Headquarters Western Command .
The foreword of the book has been written by former Vice Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen S Pattabhiraman and retired Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, Justice R N Aggarwal.
Major Navdeep Singh is a practicing Advocate in the Punjab and Haryana High Court and a decorated Territorial Army volunteer. The Territorial Army (TA) is a voluntary citizens’ army consisting of civil professionals from all walks of life who can be called out for national military service in times of wars and national emergencies. Many eminent personalities have been part of TA including sitting Ministers, MPs, Bureaucrats and Industrialists. Kapil Dev was also inducted into TA recently. Unknown to many, the Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi was also associated with an auxiliary organisation of the TA called the Ambulance Corps.
Maj Navdeep singh is also credited with the execution of implementation of the Indian Tolls (Army & Air Force) Act, 1901 all over India and also effective implementation of entertainment tax exemption to serving defence personnel in cinemas and theatres. He has also worked for the benefit of WWII veterans and authored a book, "Soldiers Know Your Rights", which was released by General J J Singh, India’s former Chief of the Army Staff. An another book called "Fauj Hai Mauj", (Military is fun) is also written by him.
Army Commander releases a book 'Pension in the Defence Services' by Maj Navdeep Singh
Book on military pensions released
Dear Brig Kamboj and Gangadharan,
Yesterday, I was present at the release ceremony of a book entitled, "Pension in the Defence Services" by Maj Navdeep Singh. Lt Gen Sapru, Army Cdr, Western Command, did the honours, and spoke in laudatory terms about the author and his service to the 'fauji' fraternity. Navdeep, as you may know is a TA officer and is a second generation soldier.
I received a complimentary copy of the book and have browsed through it last night. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that Navdeep has done a thoroughly professional job. he has traced the history of pensions and all orders, instructions and court judgements on disputes related with pension of soldiers have been systematically chronicled. It is a 'single window' solution to any one who wishes to study the subject.
We soldiers will again be faced with anomalies, and may have to consider the 'court option' We will be ill advised to do so without doing our home work properly. I think at that time, a book of this kind will be of great use.
The book is published by Shree Ram Law House, Chandigarh and is priced at Rs 670/-
Regards,
Maj Gen Surjit Singh (Retd)
"Report My Signal" forum congratulates Maj Navdeep for the stupendous and painstaking effort to put together coherently the Pension Regulations with overall aim of demystifying the Pension Matrix of Defence Services. Kudos for unearthing the plethora of orders which will prove invaluable to all Ex- Servicemen especially in debugging the anomalies.
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