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Army to
observe 2011 as year for disabled soldiers
Wednesday December 15, 2010 07:06:11 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Indian
Army will observe 2011 as the year for its disabled personnel to
honour the soldiers who have been rendered handicapped while
serving the nation, its chief General V.K. Singh said Wednesday.
During 2011, the army would "concentrate only" on the welfare of
disabled personnel and a number of programmes will be launched to
this end, Singh told reporters.
"We are working out programmes under which we will give attention
to all our disabled. It is not that we don't do it now, but for
one year we want to concentrate only on this particular aspect,"
he said on the sidelines of a function to honour war widows and
disabled personnel.
Asked about complaints from veterans on pension and other related
issues, the army chief said the force has been working towards
addressing the complaints and a database of ex-servicemen is being
prepared at their regimental centres.
"Our endeavour is to prepare such a system that we can access the
database of all the centres and after that see the shortcomings.
And then send our personnel to these people and enquire about
their problems and try to provide solutions for them," he said.
The army chief and his wife Bharati Singh, who is the president of
the Army Wives Welfare Association, handed over specially modified
scooters to 14 disabled soldiers and provided monetary help to war
widows.
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