Why Veterans want a strong Lokpal Bill

Dear Friends,
A strong Lokpal Bill will ensure that the corrupt political leaders and the corrupt Babus are removed from the scene of Governance of India soon.
Due to misinformation campaign by persons with vested interest, some of us have started believing that a Strong Lokpal Bill will destabilise the country and will be against the Constitution of India.
Do not be misled by these thugs. Read some more articles appended below. Let us all whole heartedly support the Jan Lokpal Bill and support Veteran Anna Hazare.
While in Service we sacrificed best part of our life to protect the nation from external threats – it is now time for us to protect the nation from these dishonest politicians and Babus, who are looting the national wealth and blocking progress of the country. Those of you who do not agree with the above statement, are probably justified in your own way, we respect your views.
Vande Matram
In service of Indian Military Veterans
Chander Kamboj.

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March for Janlokpal

WHY
Dear friends, People in power have proved that they don't want a strong anti-corruption law because it will stop them from looting the nation. We cannot let this happen and we need to take affirmative action to ensure that people win this battle. Anna Hazare has decided to give a final and decisive push to Janlokpal by announcing his indefinite fast from 16th August. India needs to be awakened to come out on streets on 16th August. Its time to walk the talk!
We invite friends who would like to lead/organise/coordinate a March from their own city.

HOW AND WHEN August 1 to August 10
A mass mobilization programme across the country in the form of long marches is being planned starting August 1. These marches will originate from different cities and city coordinators are requested to plan one starting from their own city. For instance, the first march will start from Delhi on August 1 and end in Meerut (55 km) on the next day. Civil society leaders like Arvind Kejriwal will participate in this march. Several marches have already been planned in different cities of UP (starting from their own cities and culminating in Lucknow/Kanpur). In Maharashtra a march is being planned from Pune to Ralegan Sidhi.

LOGISTICS AND PREPARATION
A person can easily walk upto 25-35 kms in a day. Keeping this fact in mind and the time at your hand, plan a march of 50-200 km (2-8 days), work out the route/itinerary and inform us. Sole objective of this march is to make people aware of this historic movement and to urge them to participate in it actively. You will need some posters/banners and pamphlets for the march. Many of you already have these, in case you don’t, we will send you the files and you can get them printed as per your convenience.
While marching, make sure you have regular stopovers where you can interact with local people. Try to walk as much as possible during the morning and evening while keep the afternoon for rest and relaxation. Also, do share your plan with the local media, once you have informed us of the plan, we will push it in the national media in Delhi.
Politicians of all colours regularly undertake such walks for power and support, but this time India will walk for a better and corruption-free India!!! Spread the word.
Ideas and suggestions are most welcome.
Email: padyatra2011@gmail.com
Mobile: 9971900424, 8009664058
March for Janlokpal

Rank Pay and Reserve Service Liability treading same path

Dear Brigadier Kamboj,
Thank you for publishing the AFT order. After going through Air HQ letter addressed to PCDA as well as the AFT order, it appears that revision of pension will be applicable to petitioners only instead of all affected veterans which should include officers also who have reserve liability and are getting less pension as they may not have rendered service required to earn full pension even with weightage. This may lead to Supreme Court like rank pay case where only the pension for Major Dhanapalan has been revised so far.
Regards
AVM RP Mishra

Comments
Through RMS, I would like to appeal all veterans' organizations to take up the issue with Deptt of Ex-Sevicemen Welfare Ministry of Defence. I feel that for some time we should stop demanding everything else from Govt of India and only demand the following:
1. The Chairman of ESW Department of MoD, should be a serving Lt Gen/ Maj Gen or equivalent, in rotation from three Services; min tenure three years.
2. At the next level a Brig or equivalent, from all the three Services. They all should have done the LDMC. Should have a min tenure of three years.
3. All other officers in the Department should be retired Defence Officers, who should be allowed to serve up to the age of 62 years.
4. Below the officer level, the 50% of staff should be ESM and 50% civilians. (could be 100% ESM). The ESM in this Deparment should be allowed to serve upto the age of 62 years.
The present ESW Dept is a collection of clueless clots, who know nothing about Defence Services, in particular about the problems of ESM. Every letter they issue has anomalies. When they issue a letter to rectify and anomaly – they add many more anomalies.
I strongly recommend to ALL ESM organisations to put up the above demand at National Level, including writing articles in the print media and interviews on TVs.
ESW Department of MoD is proving to be our biggest enemy.
I appeal to all members to send this note of mine to some MPs and to those who matter in GoI.
Chander Kamboj