Hey guys, have you read the title clearly? 'Do you have it in you'....is what Army advertisement challenges you, dares you, asks you and pulls you towards, what is made to look very very attractive, a career in the defence forces. I tell you if you have it in you don't join the forces. The glossy painted picture of men in OGs and lush green golf courses seen on the billboards is purely for graphic representation, so are the other details like perks and free house. What an army ad never displays is a "Conditions Apply".
I have strong reasons for saying so. I am taking the case of this serving officer having given 20 years of his life to this organisation. A confirmed bachelor who does not intend marrying is being refused an army accommodation for his old parents. So, here is a condition that only married officers get accommodation. Quite a paradox because whether one has a wife or not, everyone has parents, right? To marry or not to marry is a personal choice. If the old parents are entitled to medical and CSD facilities, how can an accommodation be denied them? Every officer is entitled to a perk called accommodation. So why not a bachelor? More certainly, if it has to accomodate his old parents. For a bachelor old parents are his only family.
The army HQ says that this the first case of its kind and if they approve it, it will be setting a precedent. So, they conveniently disapprove this officers plea to his right to have an accommodation for his parents. Wtf ! Do they mean to say that last 64 years we have never had a bachelor officer wanting accommodation for his parents? Not even one instance? Complete bullshit!
I will write more about the WHO"S WHO of army who are retaining the houses in the metros on pretexts for which many precedents would have been set. Fauj is in its own words "Fucked up". Its not for nothing that Army Chief ' s DOB details are messed with. The General has gone to the court. The officer who is written about here has taken the matter to court. Fauj, as they say, has really gone to the dogs.
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I have strong reasons for saying so. I am taking the case of this serving officer having given 20 years of his life to this organisation. A confirmed bachelor who does not intend marrying is being refused an army accommodation for his old parents. So, here is a condition that only married officers get accommodation. Quite a paradox because whether one has a wife or not, everyone has parents, right? To marry or not to marry is a personal choice. If the old parents are entitled to medical and CSD facilities, how can an accommodation be denied them? Every officer is entitled to a perk called accommodation. So why not a bachelor? More certainly, if it has to accomodate his old parents. For a bachelor old parents are his only family.
The army HQ says that this the first case of its kind and if they approve it, it will be setting a precedent. So, they conveniently disapprove this officers plea to his right to have an accommodation for his parents. Wtf ! Do they mean to say that last 64 years we have never had a bachelor officer wanting accommodation for his parents? Not even one instance? Complete bullshit!
I will write more about the WHO"S WHO of army who are retaining the houses in the metros on pretexts for which many precedents would have been set. Fauj is in its own words "Fucked up". Its not for nothing that Army Chief ' s DOB details are messed with. The General has gone to the court. The officer who is written about here has taken the matter to court. Fauj, as they say, has really gone to the dogs.
Share this, talk about it in media. You may do good to many soldiers who commit their lives to the nation unconditionally but offered perks on conditions.
Its not like amending a constitution or Phd in Rocket Science, its simple equation of human relationships and there are no underhand deals like Bofors or Sukna or allotting a house in Adarsh Society that the Army is OH SO WARY OF SETTING A WRONG PRECEDENT.
ReplyDeleteQuite a stupid and insane rule that parents are not a family but a spouse and kids are. Also means that an army-officer has to be married to look after his parents in his house.
ReplyDeleteA complete paradox is all officers above Brigadier levels get "designation houses" where ever they are posted, even in the field yet most of them retain one good house in one or the other metros, more so in Delhi and Bombay so that their working grown up children, who above the ages 21 are otherwise not legally dependent, continue to enjoy rent free accommodation and on the house cooks and drivers. This is also a kind of corrupt practice by the high ranking defence officers.