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    Post by roshini Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:14 am

    Rashtrapati
    Bhavan, the august premises where the supreme commander of the Indian
    armed forces awards highly coveted medals to select members of the
    military, witnessed an unusual, unprecedented and ignominious scene
    recently. An anguished delegation of military veterans returned over
    2,000 gallantry and distinguished service medals to the president to
    register their protest over the government's stubborn denial of the
    long-promised one-rank-one-pension (OROP) dispensation for retired
    faujis. The civil-military chasm has been increasing in recent years in
    India exacerbated by the UPA government wherein the honour of the
    Indian military has been steadily denigrated by the civilian leadership.


    It
    is an irrefutable tenet of the democratic ethos that the military as an
    institution will always remain subordinate to the elected
    representatives, and each country has its own way of arriving at the
    appropriate civil-military equipoise. This evolution is particularly
    challenging for the post-colonial state, where the military the army in
    particular may have been part of the colonial experience. The
    Afro-Asian experience after World War II is deeply blemished and many
    nations have seen their armies seizing political power through coups,
    often abetted by external actors. Within South Asia, the historical
    experience of Pakistan and Myanmar is a case in point.


    However,
    the Indian case has been an exception and due credit must be given to
    the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru and his colleagues, Sardar Patel and
    C Rajagopalachari, each of whom had an imposing personal stature and
    unassailable conviction about the idea of a free India. And this was
    shared by the top leadership of the Indian military. Field Marshal
    Cariappa, the first Indian Army chief, and his peers, were deeply
    imbued with the same normative nationalism and accepted civilian
    supremacy. Despite the humiliation of 1962, engendered by rank
    political ineptitude, the Indian military grew into a credible and
    highly professional but totally apolitical institution. Thus the
    tumultuous trajectory of Indian democracy was served well by the
    stability that the Indian military steadfastly provided.


    However,
    the top Indian political leadership has always had a distant and formal
    relationship with the military and this was perhaps due to Nehru's own
    misplaced perception about the military as an institution. But this
    changed dramatically after 1962, and the role and relevance of the
    armed forces for an independent India in an adversarial neighbourhood
    was acknowledged. In the early decades after 1947, the cream of Indian
    youth joined the military to serve the nation, and for the honour of
    our flag.


    Many died in the wars of 1965, 1971 and, most
    recently, in Kargil in 1999. They continue to fall in the ongoing war
    against terrorists and insurgents. On balance, the fauj, with its
    innate sense of 'izzat', was revered by the people but was kept at a
    distance by the politico-bureaucratic elite. Certain protocols and
    procedures were recognised, and an acceptable civil-military status quo
    maintained.


    However, in recent months, more so after the award
    of the 6th Pay Commission, a series of unfortunate but totally
    avoidable events have led to the denigration of the armed forces as a
    collective. Gross disparities in the pay and allowances of the serving
    military in relation to the other cadres of the government were
    introduced that were detrimental to the soldier. When this was pointed
    out, the request for a review was dismissed in a cavalier manner and
    canards floated in Delhi that the military was resorting to trade union
    tactics.


    More than money which is no doubt an important element
    the honour of the military was deliberately trampled upon, and here
    some degree of bureaucratic perfidy is discernible. Some redress for
    serving military personnel has been awarded by the government, which
    appointed a group of ministers headed by the indefatigable Pranab
    Mukherjee.


    More than the status of the serving community, it is
    the plight of the retired military personnel that has triggered the
    unseemly returning of medals by the veterans. As per current pension
    norms, all military personnel (barring the chief, C-in-Cs and honorary
    commissions) receive different pensions for different ranks depending
    on when they retire. This, incidentally, is true for the civilians also
    and only those who attain the pay scale of secretaries to the
    government of India have the benefit of OROP.


    But given the fact
    that military personnel retire at a very early age (beginning at 32 for
    sepoys and going to 54 years for most officers), harmonisation was
    sought and successive governments since the days of Rajiv Gandhi have
    promised to do so, but never delivered on the promise. Consequently
    many pension asymmetries prevail. For instance, a sepoy who retired
    before 1996 gets a pension that is 82 per cent less than a post-2006
    retiree.


    In yet another incident that reeks of deliberate
    denigration of the men in uniform, it is reported that at the
    traditional president's Republic Day 'At home' this year, the three
    service chiefs were not accorded a place with their supreme commander
    for the first time in living memory. In snubbing military personnel who
    are sworn to lay down their life for the flag and honour, it is the
    honour of the republic of India that is sullied. But alas, who cares?




    The writer is a Delhi-based security affairs analyst.
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    Post by Guest Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:59 pm

    very nice share roshini.... clap 2 indeed Indian army is the cherry of the indian pride...n they sud be treated with more respect agree
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    Post by roshini Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:34 am

    sunny :thanx: sunny

    Baba wrote:very nice share roshini.... clap 2 indeed Indian army is the cherry of the indian pride...n they sud be treated with more respect agree
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    Post by SourabhBasak Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:52 pm

    Very nice sharing....... clap 2
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    Post by roshini Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:16 pm

    :thanx: :thanx: :thanx:

    sourabhbasak wrote:Very nice sharing....... clap 2

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