By Letn Gen Prakash Katoch
Theater in the media direction about Tour of Duty (TOD) on June 14 at the National Media Center. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh seemed satisfied watching service leaders who seemed uncomfortable reading the statement prepared. The head of the army even has a written answer to the question asked by the audience. He also spoke last even though the Army would get maximum imports from TOD.
Rajnath looks optimistic with the TOD set to flood the military; He will remain responsible even as ‘Marg Darshak’ after 2024. Ajay Kumar’s Defense Secretary did not say a word or asked questions with his extended term, expanded the bureaucratic kingdom, and had pushed TOD in full size instead of the pilot project should be supposed to be . Lieutenant General Anil Puri from DMA continued to blink a photo of life in the armed forces (known by young people and the media) to give trust in what he presented.
Asked whether the six -month training would be sufficient for TOD, the head of the Navy replied that the inaugurated TOD would be trained on one ship for two years and another ship for two years. Two other leaders think the best to remain a mother. Replying to another question, the head of the Army confirmed that all Army units will have energy on the basis of India. When asked whether this means the regiment system in the Army will be completed, he said it would leave but not immediately.
The government’s goal is to kill the Army Regiment system, which is the foundation of weapons and friendship that is struggling; ‘Naam, name Aur Nishan; To be sacrificed through the application of ‘Sabka Sahah, Sabka Vikas’. So, what will the Rajput Class Regiment be called, the Gorkha Regiment, the Sikh Regiment is called? Will they be allocated with the number of Army Police-Initiated or replaced by his name ‘Savarkar Regiment’, ‘Mangal Pandey Regiment’, ‘Reen Dayal Upadhyay Regiment’ as discussed on
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Is this PR training needed with the media flooded with praise articles that provide complete details of the scheme based on gifts given by the government and the army to ‘elected’ writers – including veterans? Ironically, this 2-3 star veteran praised the trivial TOD package while enjoying their own retirement and facilities. The same stooges have helped cover the PLA intrusion in Ladakh for 2020.
Previously the announcement of Tod was the sound of deafening ears about a very large defense retirement budget, which had flooded the media once again after the anti-tod Youth protest after the media briefing on June 14. But those who cry about defense retirement deliberately do not ask for expenses for The Group ‘A’ services and civil defense employees, questions such as:
· They have a much faster promotion and given non-functional improvement allowances (NFU). Everything retired in the HAG/HAG+class, enjoying one ranking, one retirement (OROP) afterwards.
· Above, combined with all presentations up to around 60 years, expenses for them are very large (serving and retiring) that are stored hidden.
· Anout 45% of the Defense Pension Bill is still given to civil defense employees.
Those who are under the National Pension Scheme (NPS) will get an additional 15% salary when in service and pension packages, which are far more than those obtained by the army in the service because they retire for years before.
· Each of the seven lakhs who serve civilian defense employees five times more expensive than their uniformed colleagues.
· Even civilians from the Ministry of Finance (MOF) regarding attachment to the Minister of Defense (MOD) are paid from the defense budget (payment and retirement) – Why?
Although the government’s announcement is no scarcity of funds for the military, the defense budget continues to be negative in actual until China gives a kick in 2020. Reducing the defense budget allows the mafia to shout more about defense retirement that obscures expenditure on civilian defense. employees, as explained above. Group service ‘A’, Civil Defense Employees, and CAPF get more money that serves for a longer time. But the government enjoyed the soldiers who fought in unfriendly areas, faced risks and begged to defend their families, educate their children and struggle to fight for himself in his old age.
In the case of the OROP for the armed forces, the promise to revise the OROP every year was buried by the Minister of Defense Arun Jaitley who said everything said in the election it was not fulfilled. The Reddy Judge Commission report one person appointed by the government regarding OROP has been deliberately included in the freezer. As for the government’s promise to revise retirement from July 2019, MOD is again looking for more time, which can continue until eternity.
How is Tod initiated?
In his article ‘Tour of Duty – a bad idea that has arrived’, KP Commander Sanjeev Kumar, a former Navy Experimental Test Pilot, writes that if Indian and MOD troops have a way, Tod will soon come true. He explained why Tod was a “bad idea” but what he said about the army and mod was 100% true.
How general Bipin Rawat became the head of the army and then CD, what exactly CD and DMA and why the recruitment of the army was stopped two years ago has been explained in these columns before
General MM Naravane took over as the head of the Army from Rawat on December 31, 2019, with a CD. The ‘concept paper’ for TOD was prepared at home by the Army in December 2019, which was then forwarded to DMA. It did not mention expenses for civilian defense employees and comparisons with other civil and police services. Does the paper begins with the bureaucratic orders? Is the cared for seeing beyond the CD (Minister at the center or Uttrakhand preceded by the Ambassador/Governor?) With Naravane also loves himself to the government?
In 2020, media reports emerged that TOD would be tried in the Army experimentally, simultaneously with Narawane outline the virtue of TOD (https://youtu.be/gplgy78tc5y). Rawat wants TOD to be a source of ‘only’ for the army but Naravane wants a pilot project only for 100 officers and 1000 troops, which are continued paper. But then DMA, part of the mod) took over and the Minister of Finance was very happy to see the opportunity to carry out large-scale TOD, and the same made the only recruitment policy for the army. .
Isn’t India a rich country given by Freebies that is bombarded by all political parties, money that spends buying votes and members of parliament, as well as large -scale expenses for daily propaganda that can dwarf the administrative propaganda machine in Joe Biden in America. Is there anyone who has seen expenses in manned civil government organizations, including DRDO and DPSU related to their defense, retirement, and their benefits? What about CAPF, strength, payment, benefits, and their retirement? Why is only the military targeted and in it the Army?
But this is not the first time the army hierarchy has disappointed services to promote themselves. There is a criticism of the new NFU -this newly given to CRPF, not an armed forces. But a few years ago, the Army Headquarters wrote to the mod that NFU should not be given to Army personnel. The logic given by the general aide is that individuals who are not promoted but get a higher wage will stop working (SIC), as if they cannot be fired. This is a different problem that someone in the military hierarchy is targeting the position of Vice Chancellor of the Indian National Defense University (Indu), Foundation Stone placed by the Prime Minister at that time on May 23, 2013 in Gurgaon (Haryana). But the next government has another plan.
Above only two examples of many. Also, how soldiers shot themselves on the feet can be measured from an article written by Major Navdeep sighed a decade ago. There is another example of the army. Admiral Wisnu Bhagwat, when serving as the head of the Navy, has proposed for MOD that builds a joint structure for special forces of the three services. MOD asked comments from the Air Force and Army. IAF answered they did not have special forces – ‘Garuds’ appeared many years later. But the Army responded by saying, “We do not visualize the trans-limited work of special forces”.
The National Security Guard (NSG) was offered to the Army in the past but the Army refused to say that anti-hijack was not their expertise. But the Army continues to provide labor to NSG (in many cases working under police officers) for the position of additional regiments even though CCS records (where NSG was founded on September 22, 1986) specifically stated that the Army will provide labor for NSG only For the first 10 years – until September 1996.