Sunday, April 25, 2010

Ex-servicemen demand one-rank one-pension

Tribune News Service Dehradun, April 24
Against the alleged exploitation and being neglected by authorities, members of Purav Sainik Welfare Association, a body of ex-servicemen, held a dharna at the Gandhi Park here today.

The sainiks protested against the authorities in favour of their long-pending demands and threatened that if their demands were not agreed to, they would intensify their agitation.

The association’s main 50-year-old demand was one-rank one-pension for all. They said it hadn’t been implemented fully.

The sainiks also criticised the issue that after toiling hard for 17 years in severe service, they sat idle at home and there was no help for them in this regard.

They lamented that the property of sainiks was not saved even after they fought to save the country in three wars.

SS Thapliyal said civil and military officers were both into corruption, while the sainiks who are of lower ranks were made to suffer. “It is we who fight on the borders putting our lives in danger, not the officers, then why this step motherly treatment with us?” he questioned.
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