I am wondering if he is in senses.
I don't agree with elitist mindset where they assume they are doing more than "civilians". They need to be continuously aware that they are part of us and they come from us.
Cantt were established outside of residential towns. In time they are now sitting in middle of bustling cities . It's neither good for city nor army.
The bugger wants pensions to be benchmarked every year... BJP in its OROP does it every five years.. While I appreciate the service by the military. The military too needs to keep in mind that more than 1.3 lakh crore is being spent on pensions, when new government employees dont have such perks, and only have NPS. And we civilians in the private sector, have nothing when it comes to pensions...
And are paid by the productive activity of us civilians...
These huge pension increases are directly undermining our military readiness by taking away money from the capital budget. Veterans also need to spare a thought to the defence of this country and not demand endless increases to pensions. The same people doing emotional atyachar about soldiers are leaving present soldiers underequipped and under funded.
Some ex-servicemen want their pension to be revised with the retirement of every officer, for example a retired full colonel's pension should be revised every time when a colonel retires, this is not possible, it would lead to huge pressure on the Defence Accounts Department in terms of calculating pensions of retired officers and other ranks. Mr Manohar Parrikar had agreed on revision of pensions every 5 years- this was finally implemented by the MoD as part of the OROP. I do not understand what more can the MoD, criticising the MoD for implementation of the present OROP is wrong.
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So does this mean CDS gets command role?
Doesn't he already have a command role or is it only coordinating role ?First joint commands to be launched by May
India gets ready to roll out long-awaited theaterisation plan with Air Defence and Maritime commands
So does this mean CDS gets command role?
When CDS was announced, he was to only have a coordinating role, as an interface between the military and the political executive, and we were told he can't command (i.e. he doesn't sit above the service chiefs in the chain of command, and can't bark orders at them).
CDS along with other chiefs need to institute a mechanism to avoid the temptation of communicating complex ideas on news channels live on air as first stop.
I think the new law or code modification is addressing these temptations....with that said, should the CDS have a say in post retirement for a couple of years as an advisory to govt to make sure that new blood does not compromise the integrity of country aka US military these days? Its a double edged sword especially if retired CDS is not a good one...
Even with govt?
