Disabled War Veterans are now listed

Message from President Disabled War Veterans (India)
A few years ago, when we, representing the Disabled War Veterans, requested for certain measures both in regards Pay & Allowances and the initiating of welfare measures for such categories of personnel, to the Parliamentary Committee, we were rather surprised at MoD & Services HQ indicating to them that they were totally unaware of the number of Battle / War Casualties since no such records were maintained.

You are aware that proper statistics and data would help greatly, especially in calculating the expense to the exchequer to enable any measures getting past the MoD (Finance) and the decision making process.

With the assistance of the Adjutant General Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal and Lt Gen B V Nair, DG DCW, we undertook this gigantic task of obtaining and collating data of such personnel. We are thankful to all the Colonels of Regiments, Centre Commandants and Record Officers to have delved into their past records and produced the desired data. This Data, duly compiled in 4 Volumes has been handed over to the DG DCW, MD ECHS and Secretary (ESW) for future planning purposes.

However, our task does not end here. The Data of officers is not fully available especially of those serving, those voluntarily retired from service and others.

This is an appeal to all officers who are known to you or who see this mail that they should send me the data regarding themselves to diwave1(at)gmail.com
DATA FORM
1. No Rank Name
2. Unit Date of Birth Age
3. Theatre of War Where injured.
4. Exact nature of Disability
5. Percentage Disability
6. Prosthesis/Other
7. Whether Invalided out or retired
8. Other Health issues
9. Address-Temporary aand Prmanent
10. Dependant Family members with Age
11. Contact Details: Tele: Mobile: E Mail:
13. ECHS Card No
14. Dependent ECHS Clinic Name
Message from President Disabled War Veterans (India)
Comment: Commendable work. We need to have an online database which can be updated by concerned Officers, JCO's and NCO's.
Finance Budget 2011
A lump-sum ex-gratia compensation of Rs.9 lakh for 100 per cent disability to be granted for personnel of Defence and Para Military forces discharged from service on medical ground on account of disability attributable to government service.
FM Tax Proposals 2011

DGR Ministry of Defence

Functions:

Collection, compilation, analysis, maintenance & dissemination of selected statistics concerning ex-servicemen like registration, placement of ex-servicemen, ex- servicemen on live register, World War- II Veterans, War Widows and employment preferences and age distribution of retirees. The statistics is available to users free of cost on demand.

Furnishing of clarifications concerning to status of ex-servicemen /widows in consonance with Notifications/ Memorandum issued by the Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Government of India and monitoring of policy guidelines thereof.

This Directorate is also a repository of Notifications/ Memorandum issued by the Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Government of India with regard to status of ex-servicemen. The definitions of ex-servicemen have been widely publicized through the Journals “ Sainik Punarvas” and “News Letter” published by the DGR. Copies of the definition of ex-servicemen are available to interested persons free of cost on demand.

Preparation of draft reply to Parliament Questions and dissemination of inputs to Parliament Questions and other Parliament matters pertaining to registration, retirement, placement, live register of ex-servicemen and status of ex-servicemen.

Undertaking of Adhoc studies & analysis of data.

Handling of court cases relating to status of ex-servicemen.

Directory of officers and staff:
Ser/ Name/ Designation/ Pay scale
1. Shri Mukat Singh Director(S&R) Rs.14300-18300
2. Shri Laxaman Singh Assistant Rs.5500-9000
3. Smt D. N. Sharma DPA Rs. 5500-9000
4. Ms Sunita PA Rs. 5500-9000
5. Shri Ravinder Kumar Group D Rs. 2550-3200

Public Information Officer: Director (S&R) has been designated as Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) for Directorate General Resettlement (DGR) and Kendriya Sainik Board(KSB). For seeking information, in respect of DGR & KSB under The Right to Information Act, 2005, a request may be sent to Director, (Statistics and Records), Directorate General Resettlement, Ministry of Defence, West Block-IV, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 (Telephone 26192364), e-mail: mukat.singh@yahoo.com.
DIRECTORATE OF STATISTICS AND RECORDS

Comments: This organisation is staffed and run by bureaucrats for the Veterans. Very laudable aims! No online data of ESM. The website merely gives out information. No user friendly interface. No online list of WWII Veterans, Widows list and so on and so forth. Why statistical data should be "On Demand"? Should it not be available for free online. Is the stat information "Secret"? How many ESM have obtained placement region/ statewise? Another shoddy function is issue of ESM identity cards of such poor quality which no one is proud to display.