I am extremely happy and I strongly support the objections raised by the three services chiefs over the anomalies in the pay scales of the defence personnel in the Seventh Pay Commission. There is brazen and blatant discrimination with the defence services in the pay scales which is disgusting and condemnable.
The pay commission recommendations, obviously scripted by the bureaucrats have shown brazen and blatant bias against the defence services. Instead of the defence services getting a better deal for the hostile conditions they are made to work, they have been subjected to a raw deal.
Just because our soldiers are disciplined and dedicated to serving the nation should not mean that they should be discriminated against. We owe our peace and peaceful lives to those guarding our borders and taking bullets on their chests and hence we must have a fair sense of gratitude towards them.
Nobody among the bureaucrats knows about the hostile conditions in which our soldiers are made to work and that is the reason there is such a bias against the defence forces. According to the recommendations while a soldier posted at Siachen Glacier will get Rs 38,000 extra salary, an IAS officer posted in Assam will get Rs 58,000 extra. This is disgusting.
I have been seriously suggesting to the Defence Minister that the bureaucrats who have habitually been creating hurdles and hindrances in providing better pay to the defence personnel should be made to serve in Siachen for at least a day so that they realise what a soldier goes through. The Defence Minister must stand by our soldiers and get the anomalies removed at the earliest.
This is not only an issue of salary to the defence personnel, but their status vis-à-vis other civilian services including the police and the administrative. The defence services have constitutionally to be put higher to the civil and police services. Once their salaries are less than those in corresponding ranks in the civil and police services, their status will get lowered down which is not in the national interest.
If the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations are accepted as such, what will happen in a situation like Kashmir where army is assigned the job as a last resort, will it be asked to work under the local police and administration?
The issue was beyond the scope of the Defence Minister and the Prime Minister must intervene personally since it directly concerns the security of the nation.
Capt Amrinder Singh, MP.
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(Source :Via Gp Email from Col A Sunder Rajan (Retd)
Whereas it is good that Capt. Amrinder Singh, a senior leader of Congress, is supporting the cause of defence service personnel, yet one can not forget the fact that the whole mess and the sorry state of affairs the serving and the retired soldiers are in at this juncture, is all because of Congress since Independence in general and third pay commission days in particular and disastrous after the sixth pay commission. Modi government has not corrected the situation as much as it was expected and could have easily done with much more grace is still in a position to be fair to the soldiers and this is the time. If it doesn't play fair now, history will be more harsh to him than all leaders of Congress since Independence.
ReplyDeleteYe zabr bhi dekha hai taarikh ki nazron ne, Lamho ne khata ki sadiyon ne sazaa paayi ....... phir na kehna, ye lafz yaad nahin dilaye .....
Please talk about the subject matter. Not the auther. Don't you understand how serious the matter is?
Deletecaptain sir,
ReplyDeleteit is like playing flute in front of a donkey, it does not comprehend and enjoy the melodious rhythmic sound in the same manner no one in the government is to listen to your genuine voice in favour of ex army and serving soldier
1.Kudos to DEV Saab and VK Kurana Saab,both of you fired in the bulls eye.Yes we all are in the same boat, bargaining with Modi and his government.But the real culprit is the Indira Congress regime brought down the soldiers life to the pitiable and worse status than coolie.
ReplyDelete2.A wolf is crying for drenching goat.Even now what the captain says is " while a soldier posted at Siachen Glacier will get Rs 38,000 extra salary, an IAS officer posted in Assam will get Rs 58,000 extra. This is disgusting."Notorious and arrogant statement.Whenever they demand from the government anything extra they shamelessly say that they are soldiers.It should be ridiculed.Otherwise they are officers and they will remain officers.If he is a real soldier let him or anybody who claims such bounty from government openly come out and answer these tow questions.
1.The IAs is not posted in Kargil.I am not worried about him, he is no none for my welfare.But a defence officer and a poor sepoy both are posted in the same place.They live together within a periphery of some square meters.An officer gets Rs.38,000 and a sepoy gets what?.
2.Does the mother nature know that whether you are an officer and another man working under the same officer is a sepoy?.An officer Or sepoy both are under the same cruel climatical and weather conditions subjected to the same torture.How do you justify that an officer should be paid more and a sepoy gets is adequate? Who is going to talk on behalf him?
Capt sahib, u r speaking in favour of defence personnel thanks. But will u tell the nation that u r the first cm of Punjab who impose 2 percent saletex on CSD items for defence personnel. When in opposition give statement in favour and when in ruling forget everything. Wah r Tahiti.
ReplyDeleteWhy this veteran who held a position of importance for a long time never bothered? Now that elections are due, like a vulture for a feast of votes is shedding crocodile tears.
ReplyDeleteSuch texts should not be published, they are only poisoning the mind of servicemen and ESMs who generally are gullible and ignorant of facts.
ReplyDeleteYour type of ppl are always throwing dirt on a good debate.
DeleteRespected sir, may I Skype you only one question. Where we're for the long years. Hope now only you got up from sleep. All officers are of same nature.
ReplyDeleteWill all these comments reach the CAPT SAB.
ReplyDeleteकंग्रेस कि कारनामा सबको पता साहाब.साथ देने धन्यबाद.
ReplyDeleteWhat can one say? The grand old lady of polity saying she is a virgin. I may respect but honour of opinion or vote- absolute NO. Amrinder Sir, pl don't cover
ReplyDeleteCapt sir , public listen you are not fool. Always remember that .
ReplyDeleteThis is just a write up by some illinformed person read out by Capt
ReplyDeleteInstead of 31500 he is mentioning 38000 as hardship allowance
Esm like amrinder Singh.vk Singh.rajyavardhan rathore are self centered politicians .hardly any expectations from them except the vote bank politics
Gone are the days of FM Manikshaw who cared and fought for the welfare of soldiers
dear sir ,
ReplyDeleteWhat you have asked for PBOR's ? COSC have asked only for officers. Why PBOR support any move by COSC or else ?
What are the options for a new Chief if the present incumbent resigns over the present pay commission issues? Will he stand for the honour of the men he commands?
ReplyDeleteCaptain Amarinder Singh (born 11 March 1942) is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress. Head of the royal family of the erstwhile State of Patiala, he was Chief Minister of Punjab from 2002 to 2007. Presently, he is the sitting President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC), Captain Amarinder Singh was also the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the 16th Lok Sabha till late 2016, having been chosen for the position after his election as a Member of Parliament from Amritsar, where he defeated the prominent BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
ReplyDeleteCaptain Amrinder Singh