Merit Scholarships for Children of ESM

Dear Sir,
We have got some donors for the Annual Scholarship to be awarded by our Association during the 8th Anniversary celebrations within 2 months. All these donors are members of our IESM. Please appreciate them for their kind gesture through your blog so that more and more ESM are encouraged to take up similar welfare activities.
With kind regards,
C Muthukrishnan
Blog: indianexserviceman.blogspot.com

ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS AWARD BY TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT EX-SERVICEMEN WELFARE ASSOCIATION
A number of philanthropists come forward year after year to help the children of the members of this Assocition. The following eminent individual ex-servicemen contribute every year to encourage the poor in their education. Accordingly, the following individual members have kindly agreed to donate a sum as mentioned against their names to help the deserving wards of the ex-servicemen of this Association.
1. Col S Victor, Officer, ECHS Polyclinic, Tirunelveli. Rs 1,000/-
2. Lt Col Paliath Shyam Prasad (Retd), Manager, ESM Canteen. Rs 2,000/-
3. Hon Sub Maj T Muthukrishnan Asst Manager, ESM Canteen (Retd). Rs 1,000/-
4. Hon Lt Krishnamoorthy, (Chennai), EXWEL Trust. Rs 1,000/-
5. Sgt R Chellappa, (Retd) Managing Trustee EXWEL Trust. Rs 1,000/-

The Scholarships awards will be distributed on the basis of the highest total marks obtained in the SSLC and High School examanitaion, in the year 2009. The readers of the blog are welcome to help the poor children for their education.

Scholarship for wards of ESM family pensioners

It has been decided to grant an annual scholarship of Rs.1001/- to the wards of poor defence family pensioners from the year 2009, in the name of 'indianexserviceman' blog. I request your participation in the scheme. The Tirunelveli District ESM Welfare Association will be conducting its 8th Anniversary in two months. Our Association also has lot of scholarship schemes which will be announced shortly.

In the meanwhile kindly give wide publicity to this Scholarship scheme to bring in some donors to this noble scheme so that it can be extended throughout the country.
C Muthukrishnan (Ex Sgt)
Kindly visit link below for full details:
indianexservicemen

Welfare of Ex Servicemen

The year 2007 was observed as the Year of Placement of Ex-servicemen and a special drive was undertaken in collaboration with the corporate sector to provide gainful reemployment to ex-servicemen. The UPA Government has in place the following measures as enumerated below.

The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare has been set up. Dr. Satyanarayana Dash has taken over as the Secretary of the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare very recently.

The anomaly in respect of pension of personnel below officer rank who had retired before 1996 has been rectified and personnel retiring from the lower ranks to also get close to full pension despite short lengths of service, benefiting around 11.85 lakh pensioners.

Procedures for the next-of-kin benefits given to personnel dying in harness have been improved.

A special drive was taken up to clear pension cases. Pension Adalats were held to redress grievances.

The Prime Minister's Merit Scholarship Scheme was been introduced for giving 5,000 scholarships every year to wards of armed forces personnel.

Availing of benefits under the Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme has been made easier and a large number of polyclinics has been set up.

Training of serving and ex-servicemen expanded.

Ministries had been advised to engage only ex-servicemen for outsourced security jobs.

Housing projects have been initiated under Jai Jawan Awas Yojana, with completion of the first project at Jaipur in 2007.

A bill for setting up of an Armed Forces Tribunal has been moved to provide a cheaper and speedier mechanism for adjudicating on the large number of pending court cases relating to service conditions of armed forces personnel and appeal against verdict of court martial.