Growing Discontentment
GROWING DISCONTENTMENT IN IA
Intro
1. Armed Forces epitomise the ideals of service, sacrifice & our country’s comp culture. IA is a completely voluntary service & any citizen irrespective of his caste, class, religion and community can join the org. Today, IA is not the same what it used to be a decade back. To take Army for granted w/o responding to its genuine needs remains a cause of concern.
2. The plight of an Indian soldier has not reached to the conscience of the govt. He is taken for granted & tasked to perform what his civ counterparts will never prefer to do or will consider it too dangerous to risk their lives. His sacrifice figures in the statistics of govt reports only. His family sheds tears & has to struggle for the rest of the life due to the tedious and long drawn govt procedures to get its entitlement and try to subsist with growing resp & scarce resources. His std & emoluments are perhaps the lowest in the hierarchy of the govt vis-a-vis the threats and challenges involved. Yet, he doesn’t come out on the streets & protest. But, now the discontentment is not only confined to whispers, but, is getting louder day by day.
3. Indian Army, whose prime role is to safeguard the nation boundaries from external aggression is deficient of around 11238 offrs today. The shortage of offrs is a live problem faced by the army today. Unfortunately, the national policies have still not able to meet the aspirations of the army that leads to various disturbances within. Army is, after all, a national asset, and any degradation in its efficiency is detrimental to the national security and national interest. The efforts to overcome this problem therefore needs to be made at national level.
Origin of the problem
4. There is no dearth of patriotism in our country but there are numerous anomalies keeping the figure of shortage constant. Why there is such shortage of offrs? This issue needs our attn, because, till eighties, Indian Armed
Intro
1. Armed Forces epitomise the ideals of service, sacrifice & our country’s comp culture. IA is a completely voluntary service & any citizen irrespective of his caste, class, religion and community can join the org. Today, IA is not the same what it used to be a decade back. To take Army for granted w/o responding to its genuine needs remains a cause of concern.
2. The plight of an Indian soldier has not reached to the conscience of the govt. He is taken for granted & tasked to perform what his civ counterparts will never prefer to do or will consider it too dangerous to risk their lives. His sacrifice figures in the statistics of govt reports only. His family sheds tears & has to struggle for the rest of the life due to the tedious and long drawn govt procedures to get its entitlement and try to subsist with growing resp & scarce resources. His std & emoluments are perhaps the lowest in the hierarchy of the govt vis-a-vis the threats and challenges involved. Yet, he doesn’t come out on the streets & protest. But, now the discontentment is not only confined to whispers, but, is getting louder day by day.
3. Indian Army, whose prime role is to safeguard the nation boundaries from external aggression is deficient of around 11238 offrs today. The shortage of offrs is a live problem faced by the army today. Unfortunately, the national policies have still not able to meet the aspirations of the army that leads to various disturbances within. Army is, after all, a national asset, and any degradation in its efficiency is detrimental to the national security and national interest. The efforts to overcome this problem therefore needs to be made at national level.
Origin of the problem
4. There is no dearth of patriotism in our country but there are numerous anomalies keeping the figure of shortage constant. Why there is such shortage of offrs? This issue needs our attn, because, till eighties, Indian Armed