| Honorary Rank of LT COL in Territorial Army Granted to Dhoni and Bindra |
| The President, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, has granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army to the Captain of Indian Cricket Team, Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the ace shooter, Shri Abhinav Bindra. The honour has been bestowed on Shri Dhoni and Shri Bindra for their outstanding contribution in the field of Cricket and Shooting respectively, and their commitment to the Army on various occasions. DM/NN (Release ID :75930) |
Sep 13, 2011
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ReplyDeleteTA persons are struggling to attain status of EX SERVICEMAN
HUGE disparity
& step motherly treatment for TERRITORIAL ARMY
Legitimately
there exist no difference between Honorably released\discharged Territorial Army officers with Gratuity & Officers court marshaled, Disgraced \cashiered & Discharged on other disciplinary grounds from Indian Armed forces as both are denied of Ex-Service men status and ensuing benefits
Officers in the TERRITORIAL ARMY are holding commission, granted by the president of INDIA with designation of Rank corresponding to those of Indian commissioned officers of the regular Army , Granted Gratuity on their honorable retirement\ Discharge\Release after 05 years of aggregate embodied service / or 10 years of commissioned service alike Non pensioner SSCO\ECO
Yet
are not treated as “EXSERVICEMAN”
unlike NON pensioner Short Service Commissioned Officers .-who are granted status of Ex-servicemen, on their discharge with Gratuity after 05 year commissioned service.
as per ARMY pension regulation Part-I 1961;- Gratuity is an kind of pension but officers Honorably released\discharged with Gratuity from TERRITORIAL ARMY are excluded from consideration as Ex-servicemen without any valued reason
Honorably retired officers of TERRITORIAL ARMY are awarded Gratuity at par with All retirees of Indian Armed forces & constitute one class of Exserviceman.
ReplyDeleteIt is not LEGAL to single out certain persons of the same class for differential treatment. Denial of Ex-Service men status and ensuing benefits had produced a class within a class without rational basis amongst ALL honorably retired officers.
As per Government Order dated 30.10.1987, which clarified that, all the members of Territorial “Army will be entitled to same benefits as made applicable to Indian Army and this matter has been further clarified by the Government Order dated 03.02.1998. Accordingly Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench at, New Delhi Order dated 19.02.2010 granted late entrant pension to the TERRITORIAL Army Officer vide Army pension regulation applicable to Territorial Army equally to their counterparts in Regular Army.
Existing definition, laid down by the Department of Personnel & Training(DOP&T), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, which has been in vogue since 01 Jul1987,--also ref -Appex’ E’
Ex-servicemen;-
;-Who has served in any rank whether as a combatant or non- combatant in the regular Army, Navy or Air Force of the Indian Union but does not include a person who has served in the Defense Security Corps (DSC), the General Reserve Engineering Force (GREF), the Lok Sahayak Sena and the Para Military Forces
-The personnel of Territorial Army (TA) who are pension holders for continuous embodied service, persons with disability attributable to military service and gallantry award winners released on or after 15 Nov 1986 are eligible to status of ex-servicemen.
Pension & Gallantry award ;- are the compulsory criteria - for the personnel of Territorial Army to attain the status of Ex serviceman which can neither be assured Nor Guaranteed & seems practicably unfeasible abiding the Role\ service concept of Territorial ARMY
Denial of EXSERVICEMAN status to Honorably RETIRED (with gratuity ) officers of Territorial army is an open affront to their Reckon able embodied service rendered for national defense,& is wholly arbitrary, discriminatory and violation of Article 14 of the Constitution.-- if Two categories of person from same class different treatment meted out to them would be treated as discriminatory & offend equality without any ground to invalidate or strike down such classification
As per GOI, DG E&T
ReplyDelete. ministry of LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT
service manual part1 National Employment Service Manual Part.I /Vo l.
I page 75 para-11.38
Normally two types of personnel are employed in the Territorial Army, those employed on a part-time basis , and those employed on a full-time basis on the permanent establishment. Obviously, persons falling in the first category and discharged from the Territorial Army should not be considered as Ex-Servicemen e.g - TA personnel’s of NON INFANTRY units called -Departmental TA units of Railway, IOC, ONGC, Telecommunication and General Hospital etc
TA Persons engaged on the permanent staff of the Territorial Army service for varying periods, and on discharge some of them revert to part-time employment in the Territorial Army itself. This part time employment only means a period of training, the duration of which may range from 30 to 60 days in a year. Persons *who serve on the Permanent staff for a period of Six months or more and who on discharge revert to part-time employment in the Territorial Army are to be considered as Discharged Central Government Employees.
TA persons* who are engaged on the permanent staff for a limited number of years should be considered as Discharged Central Government Employees
Exclusion from the definition of Ex-Serviceman for TA officers* who had been honorably Released\Discharged\Retired with Gratuity alike Non pensioner SSCO & ECO is highly illegal and against the directive of. Govt of India ministry of labor & EMPLOYMENT guidelines of Director general Employment & training.
There is a third person who was conferred the rank of Honorary Major for imparting special commando training to the armed forces for 17 years without compensation. There is no mention of Dr. Deepak Rao even and the other two sportsmen get piped as Lt. Col? I've a good mind to march these two fellows off the playground and drill some sense into their money muddled brains. All those crores from the multinational companies has made them into demigods so much so that we forget to recognize the true sons of soil.
ReplyDeletesir i am impressed with your article and i am thinking to join Territorial Army plz mail me on kapil55@gmail.com any of Territorial Army Recruitment 2013 i am waiting for your email.
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