Letter from General Satish Chandra
Dear Colonel,
I saw the message from Chander about the blogspot. It is a wish having come true. Since long I had wished that some more people come forward to assist Chander in the yeoman service initiated by him , so that his efforts are put on permanent footing. I respect the planned way to open up blogspot, step by step. Yet, the reasons for the slow progress in case of Signals Association site, can be kept in mind. Since the first step is for the Retired officers, the change in their mindset should be taken into account, if the debates have to be bold and healthy.
The Moderators can keep in mind:-
Our parliament does not bar any Member from raising any point , as long as due notice is given. Different people have different subjects on their mind. The definition of the controversial subject changes with age, freedom from bureaucratic controls and personal experiences.
The Moderators will play a big role in the success and popularity of the blogspot. We hope that they will concentrate on a subject rather than who initiates it.
I wish all the success to persons like Chander and yourself in bringing us together.
With regards,
Satish Chandra
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Ex- Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme: ECHS
Medical care is of paramount importance to the veterans of the three defence services and their dependent family members. ECHS launched a few years ago has become the main vehicle for health care of Veterans. Managing Director ECHS (a serving officer of the rank of Maj Gen) and his staff, located at Delhi Cantonment, are responsible for efficient functioning of the scheme.
ECHS is becoming more and more popular and even some veterans living abroad, who cannot afford medical aid there, are coming to India to take advantage of the scheme. The load is increasing day by day. This blog can be a means to provide feed back to the Managing Director ECHS. Of course, members can send any points they have directly also to them.
ECHS Polyclinics should have-
1. Good doctors.
2. Polite and efficient staff.
3. Hassle free procedures.
4. Availability of medicines.
5. Good patient care accommodation.
6. High quality and adequate empanelled laboratories and hospitals/ nursing homes.
It is essential to set high standards in the nascent and formative stages. Feed back from veterans is necessary for improving health care. ECHS is not only meant for veterans living in metros and large cities but the need in smaller cities and remote villages is even more critical. Managing Director ECHS and his staff are trying hard to provide the required infrastructure, facilities, financial resources and the like. However, the local day to day administration is done by the Station Headquarters.
ECHS members may express their views and give their suggestions regarding its functioning directly to ECHS or be posted on this blog. Please do mention your rank, name, service number and Polyclinic dependent upon. We will provide the link "Report My Signal- Blog" to managing director ECHS, so that they can have an access to your suggestions for improving the health scheme.
So let us hear from you. Best wishes.
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I have following suggestions for ECHS Polyclinic at Chennai:
1. The waiting period is generally over an hour. The initial Registration process is manual and cumbersome.
2. The process should be automated for quick processing by using our ECHS SIM card.
3. The medical staff are mostly civilians. These should be replaced by Ex Servicemen of the Army Medical Corps.
4. ECHS is located within the Military Hospital premises which is a great advantage. The services rendered by MH and ECHS is of exceptionally high standard.
5. I have observed that patients are overpowered and overwhelmed with abundant medications by way of prescriptions, unlike in developed countries!
James Kanagaraj
Lt Col (Retd)
ECHS is becoming more and more popular and even some veterans living abroad, who cannot afford medical aid there, are coming to India to take advantage of the scheme. The load is increasing day by day. This blog can be a means to provide feed back to the Managing Director ECHS. Of course, members can send any points they have directly also to them.
ECHS Polyclinics should have-
1. Good doctors.
2. Polite and efficient staff.
3. Hassle free procedures.
4. Availability of medicines.
5. Good patient care accommodation.
6. High quality and adequate empanelled laboratories and hospitals/ nursing homes.
It is essential to set high standards in the nascent and formative stages. Feed back from veterans is necessary for improving health care. ECHS is not only meant for veterans living in metros and large cities but the need in smaller cities and remote villages is even more critical. Managing Director ECHS and his staff are trying hard to provide the required infrastructure, facilities, financial resources and the like. However, the local day to day administration is done by the Station Headquarters.
ECHS members may express their views and give their suggestions regarding its functioning directly to ECHS or be posted on this blog. Please do mention your rank, name, service number and Polyclinic dependent upon. We will provide the link "Report My Signal- Blog" to managing director ECHS, so that they can have an access to your suggestions for improving the health scheme.
So let us hear from you. Best wishes.
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I have following suggestions for ECHS Polyclinic at Chennai:
1. The waiting period is generally over an hour. The initial Registration process is manual and cumbersome.
2. The process should be automated for quick processing by using our ECHS SIM card.
3. The medical staff are mostly civilians. These should be replaced by Ex Servicemen of the Army Medical Corps.
4. ECHS is located within the Military Hospital premises which is a great advantage. The services rendered by MH and ECHS is of exceptionally high standard.
5. I have observed that patients are overpowered and overwhelmed with abundant medications by way of prescriptions, unlike in developed countries!
James Kanagaraj
Lt Col (Retd)
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Introductory Message and Appreciation
Esteemed Colleagues of Corps of Signals,
Brig CS Kamboj, VSM has done a fantastic job of keeping Veteran Signallers informed about major happenings in the Corps and concerning the Veterans, through Report My Signal Emailing. In fact, Report My Signal has encompassed Veterans of all the Three Defence Services, not only in the Country but around the Globe. He deserves our sincere thanks for such dedicated and selfless service.
A need was, however, felt to have a platform, where any of the veterans could post messages, share information amongst themselves and express views on matters of interest. A Blog provides such a platform.
Another important motivation to have such a forum has been that when one of the veterans passes away, there is no means for his friends and colleagues to pay homage to him. The Signalman does write an obituary but it is not personalized and detailed and takes time to appear. This Blog will enable every one to pay Shardhanjali to departed souls in a personalized manner, which would also provide inputs to the Signalman to make the official obituary more comprehensive.
We propose three categories of messages to be posted on the Blog reportmysignal.blogspot.com
1. Matters dealing with veterans.
2. Professional matters.
3. Shradhanjli to comrades who leave us for heavenly abode.
(Political topics are not to be included)
This Blog is an adjunct to the Report My Signal Email Forum run by Brig CS Kamboj.
Thanks are due to Brig CS Kamboj for his efforts in getting this Blog off the ground and Lt Col James Kanagaraj, who has personally designed the Blog and will be managing it.
In a classic blog, any one can post messages directly. For obvious reasons, we have modified the facility. The inputs may please be emailed to Lt Col James Kanagaraj at reportmysignalblogspot@gmail.com and he will post these on the Blog.
We look forward to receiving your suggestions so that the Blog can be improved, made more comprehensive and useful, to serve the Corps and its Veterans.Teevra Chaukas.
Harbhajan Singh, PVSM
Lt Gen (Retd)
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Dear General Harbhajan,
The Corps of Signals will remain ever grateful to you for the idea and motivation for creating "REPORT MY SIGNAL" and now "REPORT MY SIGNAL BLOG".
I feel highly honoured for the kind words you have said about me in the opening message at 'The Blog'. Most of the credit actually goes to you and not to me.
We all must also thank Col James Kanagaraj for the nice Signals Blog created by him and created in such a short period. I deeply appreciate his volunteering as the 'Moderator'. Without his expertise and hard work it would have been very difficult for us to create and maintain this Blog.
I hope and pray that the Veterans will make good use of the Blog and stick to the laid down theme and conditions for posting messages on the Blog.
Once again I thank General Harbhajan and Col James Kanagaraj for the efforts in creating this Blog. I salute these two Veterans for their grand efforts in creating this Blog.
I also take this opportunity to salute ALL VETERANS of Indian Armed Forces, all over the world, for the sacrifices they have made, and are making now, for the good of the mother land and for good of The Veterans in particular.
Jai Hind.
Brigadier C. S. Kamboj, VSM., (Retired).
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GN thanks General Harbhajan Singh, PVSM, Brig Chander Kamboj,VSM, and Lt Col James Kanagaraj and the team of moderators for their Highest sense of Signalship & Espirit-de-Corps.
You are bringing in signallers together, you are taking us through our Golden Days, and connecting the days of earth return circuits to satellites and beyond.
May GOD shower many more ideas to your Enlightened minds.
MAY GOD BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
Brig G. Natarajan
Brig CS Kamboj, VSM has done a fantastic job of keeping Veteran Signallers informed about major happenings in the Corps and concerning the Veterans, through Report My Signal Emailing. In fact, Report My Signal has encompassed Veterans of all the Three Defence Services, not only in the Country but around the Globe. He deserves our sincere thanks for such dedicated and selfless service.
A need was, however, felt to have a platform, where any of the veterans could post messages, share information amongst themselves and express views on matters of interest. A Blog provides such a platform.
Another important motivation to have such a forum has been that when one of the veterans passes away, there is no means for his friends and colleagues to pay homage to him. The Signalman does write an obituary but it is not personalized and detailed and takes time to appear. This Blog will enable every one to pay Shardhanjali to departed souls in a personalized manner, which would also provide inputs to the Signalman to make the official obituary more comprehensive.
We propose three categories of messages to be posted on the Blog reportmysignal.blogspot.com
1. Matters dealing with veterans.
2. Professional matters.
3. Shradhanjli to comrades who leave us for heavenly abode.
(Political topics are not to be included)
This Blog is an adjunct to the Report My Signal Email Forum run by Brig CS Kamboj.
Thanks are due to Brig CS Kamboj for his efforts in getting this Blog off the ground and Lt Col James Kanagaraj, who has personally designed the Blog and will be managing it.
In a classic blog, any one can post messages directly. For obvious reasons, we have modified the facility. The inputs may please be emailed to Lt Col James Kanagaraj at reportmysignalblogspot@gmail.com and he will post these on the Blog.
We look forward to receiving your suggestions so that the Blog can be improved, made more comprehensive and useful, to serve the Corps and its Veterans.Teevra Chaukas.
Harbhajan Singh, PVSM
Lt Gen (Retd)
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Dear General Harbhajan,
The Corps of Signals will remain ever grateful to you for the idea and motivation for creating "REPORT MY SIGNAL" and now "REPORT MY SIGNAL BLOG".
I feel highly honoured for the kind words you have said about me in the opening message at 'The Blog'. Most of the credit actually goes to you and not to me.
We all must also thank Col James Kanagaraj for the nice Signals Blog created by him and created in such a short period. I deeply appreciate his volunteering as the 'Moderator'. Without his expertise and hard work it would have been very difficult for us to create and maintain this Blog.
I hope and pray that the Veterans will make good use of the Blog and stick to the laid down theme and conditions for posting messages on the Blog.
Once again I thank General Harbhajan and Col James Kanagaraj for the efforts in creating this Blog. I salute these two Veterans for their grand efforts in creating this Blog.
I also take this opportunity to salute ALL VETERANS of Indian Armed Forces, all over the world, for the sacrifices they have made, and are making now, for the good of the mother land and for good of The Veterans in particular.
Jai Hind.
Brigadier C. S. Kamboj, VSM., (Retired).
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GN thanks General Harbhajan Singh, PVSM, Brig Chander Kamboj,VSM, and Lt Col James Kanagaraj and the team of moderators for their Highest sense of Signalship & Espirit-de-Corps.
You are bringing in signallers together, you are taking us through our Golden Days, and connecting the days of earth return circuits to satellites and beyond.
May GOD shower many more ideas to your Enlightened minds.
MAY GOD BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
Brig G. Natarajan
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