7th PAY COMMISSION :
JUSTICE DENIED
By
LT COL NOEL ELLIS (RETD)
Edited by Samuel Dhar
08/08/'16
Dear Friends,
I think this discussion has gone far too long, that who deserves what, how much and why. While most people agree that the armed forces have always been on the wrong side of the receiving end though they deserve the best. However, when it comes to implementation of such commissions, it is Justice XYZ delivering his verdict. It is such honourable men like Justice Mathur who are ensuring that the future generation refrains from joining the Armed forces of India. Choice and justice delivered is yours dear sir, I wish you good luck. I will still like my child to adorn the Olive Greens, present controversy notwithstanding.
Well, justice sahib, we need real justice. Justice from the discrimination of pay parity, justice to get back our Izzat, justice to be able to serve this country longer, justice because we look after humanity during natural calamities and disasters, justice when it comes to looking after our families when we are at the borders, justice when we restore law and order due to the incompetence of the civil administration and mishandling by politicians, justice to deliver during war and bring victory to the nation, justice to live in peace, if there is such a thing in this Country today.
Can justice be delivered to the Armed Forces fraternity by a person who has no clue which way to point his rifle?
Can you do justice to the soldiers who spend most of their time without their families? Away from his aged parents, wife and children;
depriving him of watching his child take the first steps and hear the first 'Papa/Mama'.
Can you do justice, when a soldier misses the funeral of his father as I did missing the flight due to constant inclement weather?
Can you do justice when the soldiers' leave is cut short for operational duties?
Can you do justice to a soldier who is denied the discharged his moral and legal duty by his parents and family, when his parents ail and his wife is rushed to the hospital for her first delivery?
Can you do justice to the soldiers whose children go astray without the guiding presence of their father?
Can you do justice to the soldiers, majority of whom are forced to leave the who are forced to walk the civy street when still very young due to terms of service, but are denied re-employment when I have to leave the armed forces in the prime of my youth?
Job or no job, you will still find him with shiny pair of shoes and smartly turned out and be the envy of many a civilian around him.
Can you do justice by denying a 'post early retirement' job to a soldier who guarantees dedicated hard work, just as he did in the Armed Forces and prove to be an asset to the organization he gets to serve in.
Can you do justice to the soldiers whose children go astray without the guiding presence of their father?
Can you do justice to the soldiers, majority of whom are forced to leave the who are forced to walk the civy street when still very young due to terms of service, but are denied re-employment when I have to leave the armed forces in the prime of my youth?
Job or no job, you will still find him with shiny pair of shoes and smartly turned out and be the envy of many a civilian around him.
Can you do justice by denying a 'post early retirement' job to a soldier who guarantees dedicated hard work, just as he did in the Armed Forces and prove to be an asset to the organization he gets to serve in.
Can you do justice to the soldier who contracts the disease called Hypertension, operate as he does in dangerous areas infested with insurgency?
Can you do justice to a soldier who contracts other dreaded diseases like, diabetes, arthritis, high altitude pulmonary edema etc?
Can you do justice to a soldier who loses his limbs or other organs due to the dreaded scourge of the battle field called 'mines'?
Can you do justice to the soldiers deprived of the basic requirement called food in treacherous terrain?
Can you do justice to soldiers who have to constantly face the vagaries of extreme weather conditions of low oxygen and temperatures as low as -50 deg C or as high as 55 deg C or humidity as high as 100%?
Can you do justice to soldiers who have to operate in terrains infested with blood sucking leeches which have to be plucked off their bodies at the end of the day?
Can you do justice to soldiers who have ticks enter their underpants in the thick undergrowth ridden jungles of J & K , sucking blood from their private parts and which cannot be got rid off till they touch base at the end of the day-long patrol?
Can you do justice to soldiers, trained to kill the enemy beyond the Nation's borders at first sight, have to face the enemy within due to the utter failure of the civil administration and told not to fire at even murderous rampaging crowds?
Can you do justice to soldiers, the defenders of our Nation, whose families are asked to pay bribes to corrupt administrators, be they of schools or local, state or Center and even more corrupt politicians and nothing is done to them?
Can you do justice to the soldiers, who are denied proper accommodation in every military cantonment in the Country?
Can you do justice to the families of the soldiers who are brought back from the operational theaters in body bags, draped in the Tri-colour, eulogized just for a day and then forgotten for the rest of the days?
Can you do justice to the families, the widows and the orphaned children, of brave martyred soldiers who still lie buried in deep snow avalanches?
Can you do justice to the families of soldiers who still rot in Paki jails, even after 45 years?
Can you do justice to a soldier who contracts other dreaded diseases like, diabetes, arthritis, high altitude pulmonary edema etc?
Can you do justice to a soldier who loses his limbs or other organs due to the dreaded scourge of the battle field called 'mines'?
Can you do justice to the soldiers deprived of the basic requirement called food in treacherous terrain?
Can you do justice to soldiers who have to constantly face the vagaries of extreme weather conditions of low oxygen and temperatures as low as -50 deg C or as high as 55 deg C or humidity as high as 100%?
Can you do justice to soldiers who have to operate in terrains infested with blood sucking leeches which have to be plucked off their bodies at the end of the day?
Can you do justice to soldiers who have ticks enter their underpants in the thick undergrowth ridden jungles of J & K , sucking blood from their private parts and which cannot be got rid off till they touch base at the end of the day-long patrol?
Can you do justice to soldiers, trained to kill the enemy beyond the Nation's borders at first sight, have to face the enemy within due to the utter failure of the civil administration and told not to fire at even murderous rampaging crowds?
Can you do justice to soldiers, the defenders of our Nation, whose families are asked to pay bribes to corrupt administrators, be they of schools or local, state or Center and even more corrupt politicians and nothing is done to them?
Can you do justice to the soldiers, who are denied proper accommodation in every military cantonment in the Country?
Can you do justice to the families of the soldiers who are brought back from the operational theaters in body bags, draped in the Tri-colour, eulogized just for a day and then forgotten for the rest of the days?
Can you do justice to the families, the widows and the orphaned children, of brave martyred soldiers who still lie buried in deep snow avalanches?
Can you do justice to the families of soldiers who still rot in Paki jails, even after 45 years?
I want to ask you Hon Justice, if you have the slightest inkling of -
what it takes to keep up the morale of soldiers who face the enemy, eye ball to eye ball 24x7x365;
the value of the high degree of discipline we in the Armed Forces have to maintain at all times, under all circumstances;
what it takes to live the vow to bear loyalty, allegiance to the 'Nishan' and the National flag.
Hon Justice, come with us -
sit behind in an Army truck, drive with us in a convoy from Jammu to Ladakh.
acclimatise and then be inducted, after three months of induction training, to a post at the Bana Top for just 3 months;
come down thereafter to the base camp and stay their for another 3 months.
Believe you me Hon Justice -
when you land at Delhi on leave or posting, the first beath of fresh air will take your breath away, feeling kind of heavy, since all this while you were used to rarefied air.
you will be ecstatic when the first thing you do on landing at Delhi, is to ring up your wife and hear her voice on line after months;
on seeing the first carrot or cabbage in the market at Chandigarh you will run to touch and feel it.
the smell of fresh chapattis and dal fry at the first dhaba that you come across will gladden your heart;
'chai' at the nearest railway station will smell and taste like nectar;
used to seeing only bearded men, with stinky outfits, when you see the first good looking girl on a civilized street, you will be like the dumb who feel pleasure in myriad ways but cannot express their feelings;
after having heard the constant whining and whistling on the transistor sets that we, the soldiers, have with us in our forward posts, when the crystal clear blast of the FM radio first echoes in your ears, you will be jumping with joy, like a child.
how will you feel when your little girl stops short of hugging you when you first arrive at home and screams, not recognising you?
and all this after you have traveled thousands of Kms in an unreserved second class compartment packed like sardines; don't you think that the defender of the Nation deserves at least a berth in a 3rd AC as he would have descended from -50 to 40+?
what it takes to keep up the morale of soldiers who face the enemy, eye ball to eye ball 24x7x365;
the value of the high degree of discipline we in the Armed Forces have to maintain at all times, under all circumstances;
what it takes to live the vow to bear loyalty, allegiance to the 'Nishan' and the National flag.
Hon Justice, come with us -
sit behind in an Army truck, drive with us in a convoy from Jammu to Ladakh.
acclimatise and then be inducted, after three months of induction training, to a post at the Bana Top for just 3 months;
come down thereafter to the base camp and stay their for another 3 months.
Believe you me Hon Justice -
when you land at Delhi on leave or posting, the first beath of fresh air will take your breath away, feeling kind of heavy, since all this while you were used to rarefied air.
you will be ecstatic when the first thing you do on landing at Delhi, is to ring up your wife and hear her voice on line after months;
on seeing the first carrot or cabbage in the market at Chandigarh you will run to touch and feel it.
the smell of fresh chapattis and dal fry at the first dhaba that you come across will gladden your heart;
'chai' at the nearest railway station will smell and taste like nectar;
used to seeing only bearded men, with stinky outfits, when you see the first good looking girl on a civilized street, you will be like the dumb who feel pleasure in myriad ways but cannot express their feelings;
after having heard the constant whining and whistling on the transistor sets that we, the soldiers, have with us in our forward posts, when the crystal clear blast of the FM radio first echoes in your ears, you will be jumping with joy, like a child.
how will you feel when your little girl stops short of hugging you when you first arrive at home and screams, not recognising you?
and all this after you have traveled thousands of Kms in an unreserved second class compartment packed like sardines; don't you think that the defender of the Nation deserves at least a berth in a 3rd AC as he would have descended from -50 to 40+?
Last, but not the least,
Can you do justice to the veterans, who are valiantly still fighting peacefully, in a disciplined manner for their rights, which you have denied to them.
You may deny it, but we know we deserve it, and
We shall get it.
Can you do justice to the veterans, who are valiantly still fighting peacefully, in a disciplined manner for their rights, which you have denied to them.
You may deny it, but we know we deserve it, and
We shall get it.
Why blame Justice M? He and his members signed on dotted lines of the 7CPC report prepared by the all knowing IAS member.
ReplyDeleteDear M,
DeleteWe blame Justice M because his name is preceded by the world 'Justice'.
True, he must bear the burden.
DeleteClearly Justice Mathur never applied his mind to the 7CPC at all. A standing example is preparing the 7CPC matrices with weightage to number of increments which is not possible for the GOI to come forward with implementation orders. He just approved and signed the draft put up by an IAS brat.
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