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Saturday, 21 October 2017

SITE UPDATES - OUR MAILING-LISTS

WE MAINTAIN SEVERAL MAILING LISTS TO DISSEMINATE UPDATES WHEN POSTED ON THIS SITE
Dear Indian Military Veterans.

1. With a view to keeping you updated with the latest information on the subjects of our concern posted on our this website, we are maintaining several mailing lists. In addition we also try to disseminate our information through a large number of other Veterans groups. The Major lists are as under:-

(a) OUR BIGGER FAMILY - This includes Military Veterans from All Arms and Services from Indian Army, Indian Navy & Indian Air Force. Its our large family of over 2000 in our list which is growing day by day. Those offrs (OTHER THAN SIGNALS) who wish to join OUR MAILING LIST may submit us their details, by mail giving their Rank&Name, Email ID, Contact Number and Town where settled, to mgr.sigs@gmail.com .
(b) SIGNALS PARIVAR- Since this website was launched in 2008 for the Veteran Sparrows and later dedicated to All Military Veterans the registered name of the site had to be maintained as such. There is thus a separate mailing list for Veterans from the Corps of Signals of Indian Army. This has been done, so that Special to Corps Info & Updates are only sent to them and others are not unnecessarily loaded with mails which do not concern them. It covers 90% of the Veterans who are on Email. This list is also growing with time. Signal-officers both serving and retired may join our mailing list by submitting their Data-Form right here by opening the web page - http://bit.ly/2zR1Xpu or by sending email to mgr.sigs@gmail.com with details as above plus last unit served. Comprehensive details on this group are HOSTED in this web site, which must be read at
http://signals-parivaar.blogspot.in/2016/10/signals-parivaar-mailing-group.html OR by  CLICKING HERE.
2. OTHER LISTS - These are smaller lists based on regional Signals-Forums which are handled separately by our Good Samaritan, who has volunteered to help us in maintaining the Portals, we call him Our Managing Member (mgr.sigs@gmail.com) as such these lists are not mentioned here.
3. POLICY FOR POSTING MAILS TO THE GROUPs. As most of you are aware that all members on our mailing lists can post their mails to the entire Group by addressing their mails to the Gp-mail ID (single mail ID). Their mails will will get delivered to all the listed mail IDs instantly. In order to avoid infructuous (FALTOO) mails we have a comprehensive policy (The Policy may be seen here (CLICK)) on sending messages to the group. The E mails from the members which donot conform to the Policy are auto trashed by the E-Filters. Please read the details at our web page -   http://signals-parivaar.blogspot.com/2015/01/auto-rejection-of-emails-on-signals.html in this site. This ensures that FALTOO mails what so ever, donot reach our members under any circumstances.
4. As of this day in Oct 18 our site has achievd nearly 15 Lakh hits, thanks to all our Veterans in India and 90 other countries abroad for encouraging us to maintain much needed information updated at all times.
5. We have no commercial leanings in our social work which is simply aimed to empower the Veterans with much Needed Information and guidelines on DO IT YOURSELF methodology.

Brig Narinder Dhand

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STATE BANK OF INDIA - DEF SALARY PACKAGE

STATE BANK OF INDIA - SALARY ACCOUNT UNDER DEFENCE SALARY PACKAGE (DSP)
(Details of Benefits given below and a vodeo on the package in Hindi embedded at the end)
Defence personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Indian Coast Guard, Assam Rifles, Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and GREF [Border Road Organisation (BRO)] can avail of Salary Accounts under Defence Salary Package (DSP)
Available in four variants, namely Silver, Gold, Diamond and Platinum categorised on the rank of the personnel of Army, Navy, Air Force, Assam Rifles, RR and GREF (Border Road Organisation). PBORs are categorised in the Silver Variant; Officers are categorised under Gold, Diamond and Platinum Variants

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Saturday, 23 September 2017

SALUTE THE BHARTIYA SENA

THE INDIAN SOLDIER

*THE REAL 'MUSCULAR POWER' OF OUR NATION*

AS COUNTRYMEN DO WE REALLY RESPECT AND SUPPORT THE SOLDIER TO KEEP-UP HIS MORALE AND IZZAT - PLEASE THINK AGAIN

WATCH THE EXCELLENT VIDEO ON ARMED FORCES- CLICK BELOW

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Saturday, 26 August 2017

UNIQUE DISABILITY ID CARD

UD (UNIQUE DISABILITY) ID

The Govt of India has introduced the said Identity Card which can be applied on line by the persons with disability in addition to sending the hard copy of the application with all the requisite documents to the issuing authority.

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WELFARE SCHEMES (ARMY VETERANS)

WELFARE SCHEMES MANAGED BY REHABILITATION AND WELFARE SECTION (CORPUS)

DIRECTORATE OF INDIAN ARMY VETERANS (DIAV)

1. R&W Section(Corpus)/DIAV provides education grant to the wards of soldiers who die in harness. It also includes suicide cases and there is no bar on number of children. Education grant is presently available for the academic year 2017-18. Last date of submission of documents is 30 Nov 2018. Application forms can be sent directly to R&W Section, and there is no requirement of authentication from Zila Sainik Board. Details of welfare schemes/grants are as under :-

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Thursday, 6 July 2017

ITR FILING FOR THE DECEASED TAX PAYER

FILING OF INCOME TAX RETURN OF THE DECEASED PERSON

In the eventuality of the death of a TAX PAYER his/her last return is required to be filed by the legal heir after getting him/her self registered on the Income Tax Efiling site. The responsibility of payment of tax rests with the legal heir. There have been cases where the IT Dept has raised demand after three to four years from the Family pensioner. We had earlier covered this aspect in detail at, http://signals-parivaar.blogspot.com/2015/12/income-tax-return-of-deceased-very.html please do read the nitty gritties and why and buts of the same.

It is therefore necessary to file his/her last return. The method is not complicated and is described below in the succeeding paragraphs.

REGISTERING AS LEGAL HEIR -

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7th CPC - PCDA(P) IMPLEMENTATION ORDERS

PCDA Orders on 7th CPC – Defence Force Pensioners & Family Pensioners

7th CPC Report Implementation : Orders & Cicrulars

Armed Forces Pensioners / Family Pensioners

i. Circular No. 570 : Implementation of Governments decision on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission- Revision of Pension of Pre-2016 Defence Forces Pensioners/Family Pensioners – Click to read the detailed order
ii. Circular No. 573 : Ex-Gratia lump sum compensation- Recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission – Click to read the detailed order (CONTD)

iii. Circular No. 574 : IClarification on implementation of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) – Click to read the detailed order
iv. Circular No. 575 : Delay in first payment of pensionary awards and revised pension after issue of initial / corrigendum PPOs due to delayed dispatch / processing of PPOs by the Record Offices and Pension Disbursing Agencies i.e Bank CPPCs, Treasuries and DPDOs etc. –Click to read the detailed order
v. Circular No. 576 : Amendment to GOI, MOD letter No. 16(01)2014/D(Pen/Pol) dated 18th May 2016 issued for revision of casualty Pensionary award in respect of Pre-2006 Armed Force Officers and JCO /ORs Pensioners / Family Pesnioners – Click to read the detailed order

vi. Circular No. 582 : Implementation of Government decision on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC)- Rationalization of Casualty Pensionary Awards in respect of Armed Forces Officers and JCOs/ ORs retired/ discharged/ died/ invalided out from service prior to 01.01.2016. – Click to read the detailed order
vii. Circular No. 583 : Grant of Disability Element to Armed Forces Personnel who were retained in service despite disability attributable to or aggravated by Military Service and subsequently proceeded on premature/ voluntary retirement prior to 01.01.2006. – Click to read the detailed order
viii. Circular No. 584 : Implementation of the Government decision on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission – Revision of provisions regulating Pension/ Gratuity/ Commutation of Pension/ Family Pension including pensionary awards notified in terms of casualty pensionary awards in respect of Junior Commissioned Officers & Other Ranks, Retiring or dying in harness on or after 1.1.2016 (Post-2016). – Click to read the detailed order

NOTE - A Revised Defence Matrix is circulating on media (this was also sent on mail by us) which has been drawn by another web site based on revised pay structure with minimum of Rs.21700 and Max of Rs 250000 the authenticity of the same cannot be verified for the time being. This may be taken under RECOMMENDATIONS by the organisation.

The said Matrix is as under :-

The Original Matrix as Issued by the Govt. is as below:-

HOWEVER THE REVISED PAY MATRIX FOR CENTRAL GOVT EMPLOYEES ALREADY ISSUED VIDE RESOLUTION DATED 16 MAY 2017 MoFIN (DoE) IS AS UNDER FOR REFERENCE AND FURTHER CONCLUSION

Sunday, 11 June 2017

AADHAAR - LOCK OR UNLOCK BIOMETERIC DATA

How to Lock or Unlock your Aadhaar Card Biometrics Data Online

For the past few months we have been reading concerns expressed on security of your biometric data stored on the UAIDI servers. In order to address these public concerns UIDAI has now provided an option on its Aadhaar Portal, with which you can easily lock or unlock your Aadhaar Biometrics Stored in their Database. Once you get enrolled for Aadhaar Card your biometrics details were captured such as you’re both eyes iris scan, finger prints, and your photo. So all these biometrics details can be locked from accessing by any one by you on line and on mobile App.

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FAMILY PENSION FOR DAUGHTERS

ELIGIBILITY OF UNMARRIED / WIDOWED / DIVORCED DAUGHTERS FOR GRANT OF FAMILY PENSION

In accordance with clauses (ii) and (iii) of sub-rule (6) of Rule 54 of the C.C.S. (Pension) Rules, 1972 read with clause (b) of Para 7.2 of this Department’s O.M. No.45/86/97-P&PW (A)-Part I dated the 27th October 1997, son/daughter including widowed/divorced daughter shall be eligible for grant of family pension till he/she attains the age of 25 years or up to the date of his/her marriage/remarriage, whichever is earlier (subject to income criterion to be notified separately). In this connection Govt Letter dated 30 Aug 2004 referes which is reproduced towards the end of this post..

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Tuesday, 16 May 2017

SAMPLE CALCULATIONS OF PENSION - 7 CPC

SAMPLE CALCULATIONS- Sunday, May 14, 2017

Implementation of Government's decision on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission -Calculation of Revised of pension of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners, etc :

OM No.38/37/2016-P&PW(A) dated 12.5.2017 :

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Tuesday, 2 May 2017

RETIRED RECENTLY - VETERANS

THIS POST IS FOR YOU..... (Updated - today)

ACTIONS BY RECENT RETIREES THEY MUST TAKE AFTER RETIREMENT ASAP

1. It is a fact of life that we, while in service never bothered about our Retired Phase of Life. We may have been very good professionally Wwith long tails of qualifications, however, are virtually NIX on the issues which bug us all day in and day out during the retired life. During service one had a functional office as well as administrative support which just vanished in thin air, in a short while after one's farewell to arms.
2. Are you, for sure, aware as to what all forms you filled up and sent to AG's branch six months before your superannuation. Wasn't it your Head Clerk who liaised with another unit to copy all these documents from the ones belonging to another recent retiree. Our ignorance would surely lead to many issues which will crop up in a few years. We will then be bash our head here and there to rectify what could have been done easily immediately after retirement. (CONTD)

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Monday, 1 May 2017

COMPENDIUM FOR VETERANS

ALL IN ONE COMPENDIUM FOR VETERANS

(A BOOKLET PREPARED BY SIGNALS PARIVAAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF RETIRED FAUJIs)

1. While in service, we planned for all contingencies which might occur, whether in official or in our personal issues. However, after retirement many of us do not exercise the same josh in our personal affairs. We feel that we still have plenty of time to go, as such will look into our affairs to set them in order in due course of time. The time is moving from second to second since the entire Universe is dynamically changing every nano-second. One is not ever sure when our invitation will come to take on the journey to our heavenly abode. Let us be frank and face the fact of life without faking our worldly thoughts the end may be , all you know is round the corner. So friends its time now to

act expeditiously for the sake of your wife and loved ones.

2. When the unexpected happens, the NOKs are left to clear an unimaginable tangle of legal and financial issues. It is obviously our responsibility towards our loved ones to organise our personal affairs, while we are still in good physical and mental health, so that our loved ones can receive assets as smoothly and with ease as possible. We have pains takingly compiled some of the measures which we must ensure without any loss of time, to ensure that we do not leave our families in utter lurch and to fend for themselves, after we are gone.

3. The "ALL IN ONE COMPENDIUM FOR VETERANS" so compiled is now made available to our readers for study (not reading) and to take action without any further loss of time. Forget about your Rummy and Golf for a week, as the same is not going to be of any help to your family after you are gone and put your affairs in order. We still find that a large number of the Veterans haven't even written down their WILLs, we wonder as to what is that they are waiting for. All the 14 parts of the compendium as given in succeeding paragraphs are the indexed web pages as titled which will open on mouse clicks separately. These can be read on line, downloaded for your records.

ALL IN ONE COMPENDIUM FOR VETERANS

1. Appcs Pt-1.

2. Application for Transfer of PDA

3. Application for Change of PDA

4. Application Withdrawal of PPF by the Nominee

5. Don't Leave your Family in Lurch

6. Endorsement of Spouse's Name & DOB in PPO

7. Nomination for Life Time Arrears

8. Nomination For Banks & Others Accts

9. Part-1 Actions to be Taken by Veterans While Still in Good Health

10. Part-2 Terminal Benefits to NOK on Demise of the Pensioner

11. Part-3, Actions to be taken by the NOK on Demise of the Pensioner

12. Part-3, Draft Letters for Intimation of Demise & Claims

13. PCDA(P) Circular No 137 - Duplicate Copy of PPO

14.Your Assets Register for Your NOK

NOTE :- These documents can also be opened on your smart phones and tablets as the above web links are compatible to Android as well as IOS phones.

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Thursday, 2 March 2017

RESCUE

KEMPY'S NOSE - IAF Rescue Adventure - An Excellent Write-up

Wg Cdr Unni Kartha (Retd) *

The dark, ominous, thunder heads had been rising from the depths of Subansary valley all morning. The orographic winds pushed them up the slopes and the impetus helped it to climb higher and higher till the cataclysmic thermodynamics of thunder clouds unleashed enough energy to help them climb unrestricted to unimaginable height, hell bent on destruction around ‘Mechuka’. I was in the middle of it.

After waiting for several hours, I had got airborne from Dinjan in a Mil Mi-4, on a bad weather day, to take the Army Cdr on a recee of the Chinese border. The GOC had other preoccupations and hence I got airborne close to 1100 hrs, something which we had been told not to do, due to bad weather and turbulence inside the hills after 1200 hrs. The Eastern Air Force, those days, was a different sort of IAF, much like the CIA operations in Lagos, a decade earlier, except that we did neither gun running nor dope peddling like the CIA, we were very socially useful and productive fellows. Most of the guys in Chabua were either the ones who had failed the promotion exams, or were the guys on punishment posting. The guys that the IAF did not want to have around in any self respecting squadron. Chabua was therefore the best self respecting places to be. SOPs were made just for the pleasure of breaking the rule. Anyway, to continue my story……, that day we went from place to place on the whim of the Army Cdr, who seemed to be enjoying himself at my expense. He kept dilly dallying at each whistle stop and as the day went by, we got hemmed in by the line squall while we were deep inside the hills.

Flying in bad weather was nothing new to me, in those years I was compulsively drawn to it, it was exhilarating, the most adventurous thing that I could do at the age of 26. As usual, I dumped collective, descended to the deck, with the Mi-4’s wheels touching the Subansary river, more like driving a ‘Jonga’ than flying an airplane. I zig zagged along the river, acutely aware of a theorem propounded by my earlier Stn Cdr (Vir Narain). I whistled the morbid tune, taught to me by a navigator friend, it was called ‘point of no return’. The Mi-4 was one hell of a helicopter to fly. In due course, we braved the weather and got out of the hills, to my recollection, around 1600 hrs ……. about 45 minutes before sunset.

That is when I heard James Palapura on the radio.

James was overhead Tezpur in a MiG-21 acting like an airborne FAC coordinating search and rescue over Dulanmukh range. I heard arguments, between a Caribou, Chetak and James. The sensible guys in the Caribou and Chetak were calling off the search and going home due to impending bad weather and darkness. James was trying to order them back. I had no business to go anywhere other than directly east, back to Chabua, and get the Army Cdr off my back. Yet, curiosity overwhelmed me.

“James Sir”, I called on the radio. “Who punched out ?”, I asked.

“Kempy”, he said promptly, and gave me a quick rundown. It seemed Kempy (then Flt Lt Deviah, a course mate) had punched out from a Gnat earlier that morning over Dulanmukh after he got hit by ricochet and the engine flamed out. None saw him punch out, none noted where the aircraft went down. The place as you guys know is thick jungles, with crazy wild animals.2

Just then my radio quit. That was not unusual. It was unusual if the radio ever worked in a Mi-4. We were quite used to flying the Mil Mi-4 without radio, without navigational aids of any kind, without anything known or popular in aeronautics, all except a wing and a prayer.

I went into a tizzy, “hicum foocum”, sudden rush of shit to the brain. I was beset by a moral dilemma. Do I pretend not to have heard about Kempy ? Do I leave him there in the jungle and go home ? Do I rationalise that I had no business to get involved ? Do I make excuses that I had the Army Cdr on board ? Do I make an excuse that it was going to be sun set, that the weather was bad, that I was about 40 miles north and headed in the wrong direction ?

‘God, I didn’t even know if Kempy was dead or alive…… I said in monologue. ‘Oh God, my CO will make mince meat out of me’, I said to myself in self defence. No …..in retrospect, I did not bring God in between and I did not consult with him either. I went mind dead for about four minutes while I contemplated the odds. In the fifth minute, I turned around and went back to a clearing near Passighat which I had over flown about ten minutes earlier. I went and landed on a volley ball court next to some tents and without switching off, I ordered the Army Cdr out. He was dumbfounded, initially loss of words. But when it came, he let itb fly at me, alternating between request, order, court martial, pleading and jostling. Actually he was a very fine man, a person I held in great awe. So I reasoned with him. “Course mate down, Sir”, I said in clipped military parlance. “He needs me”, I told him with finality. “You are the Tiger, the army is here, and they will take care of you”, I think I told him. “Kempy is down there, I got to go before the Tigers get to him”. I think the Army Cdr made a request to take him along. I think I did not want to take him along lest I endanger his life. It is possible that I left him behind out of spite, for making me wait at all the places where we went and making me go through bad weather. I don’t remember. It is quite possible. I was very young and impetuous (NOTE - He must be Ex NDA for sure - Will do any thing for the COURSEMATE - Brig NK Dhand).

Any way I then headed full throttle for Dulanmukh range. It was almost sun set by the time I reached there. I had to ask someone the general direction in which Kempy went down. I went and landed in front of the RSO’s hut and a WO ran out. He quickly pointed out the general direction and I was off the ground in a jiffy.

The jungles reek a musty smell as the sun begins to set. I noticed it because I was at tree top height flying with both side doors wide open. There was total green cover, thick foliage. I looked for a fire, broken branches, silvery flash of the Gnat’s fuselage or wings, a parachute, smoke, anything to indicate a crash site. There was nothing. I did not know where to go looking. I did mental DR, 1/60 rule, calisthenics to try and figure out where Kempy may have crashed. Over the whirring sound of the rotor, I had caught only snatches of what the WO had told me at the range. He had said something about cross wind. Yes, he had said that Kempy had ejected on the cross wind. That meant close by. James in his zealous enthusiasm had misdirected the search and others had gone looking for Kempy far and wide and had missed him.

I flew over a large patch of open grassy space. I saw a large herd of frightened wild elephants scattering in all directions with their tails and trunks held high. “Kempy, where are you ?”, I shrieked over the noise of the wind and the Mil Mi-4. Suddenly I heard him. I swear I heard him. It seemed the Mi-4 knew where to go to find Kempy. I swear I never flew it. It was the hand of God that held the cyclic.

I overflew a hut in another patch of grass, and I thought I saw about 50 people milling about. The Mil Mi-4 turned around on it’s own and this time I could SEE CLEARLY that there was some commotion on the ground. I closed the throttle, yanked the speed down and set down the helicopter in a small clearing with very tall trees all around. When I switched off, the helicopter started juddering and after the rotors stopped, I realised that I had hit a tree while landing. About 7 inches of all the tail rotor blades had been cleanly shorn off. I also discovered to my horror that the Russians had made the tail rotor with ply wood. But at that time I was not too worried about the tail rotor. I ran forward to find Kempy.

Kempy was lying on a charpoy about 300 mtrs from where I had landed, where the villagers had brought him out from the jungle. He appeared to be semi conscious, groaning with pain. He still had his helmet on, though the mask was dangling around his chest. His nose was completely smashed and his faced covered with blood. His nostrils were choked partially with dried mucus and blood, still oozing plasma. He was labouring for breath through his mouth, spasms raking his chest. I think he had been like that all day, while the search was on overhead, the villagers were frightened to touch him.

The sun by then had set or was about to set. I quickly got Kempy’s helmet off, poured water on his face, cleaned his nose and mouth and made him drink some water. He seemed partially awake but he had no situational awareness or what happened to him. It also looked as if he had suffered a compression fracture of his spine. I knocked out the charpoy legs, loaded Kempy still on the charpoy into the MI4 and we went back to Chabua, unmindful of the missing portion of the tail rotor, the MI4 juddering and shaking all the way. 45 minutes later, when we landed, there was a big crowd on the tarmac, including the Station Commander and my CO, late Jayaraman. The docs took charge of Kempy and I think he was flown to Calcutta, never saw him afterwards, for a long time.

The CO took me by the elbow and marched me to his jeep. Never said a word. He went straight to the bar, where Durga the ever smiling barman poured us both a large Rum with water, the favourite drink in Chabua. There were many others too in the bar. Jayaraman, took a sip and I think he could not control himself any more.

“I don’t know what to do with you”, he said. “First you broke the 12 O’Clock rule”, he waved the glass in my face. My untouched glass still on the bar counter. True to Rimcolian tradition, I always took bull shit standing at attention. In RIMC, it was believed that attention was the only safe position to ward off predation. “I can understand that you came out of the hills at 2 O’clock, I can forgive you if it went to 3 O’Clock. But I cannot suffer in silence if you decided to clear the hills at sun set”. His voice was quivering with emotion. There was pin drop silence in the bar. All drinks lay untouched on the bar counter. He took another sip. “You got into bad weather”. He paused. “No, not just bad weather, you f***ing had to go and penetrate a line squall and mapped the Sunasari river with your wheel to get out”. I began to wonder where he had heard that one. Then I realised that the army may still be searching for their Army Cdr. “I can understand if you left behind an army captain”, he said very softly. He took another sip of Rum and water. “I can understand if you left behind a Colonel. I can forgive you even if had left behind the GOC 2 Div”. He paused, seemingly at a loss of words. “F***ing shit bag, you went and left the Army Cdr on a f***ing BSF picket and he is sitting on a charpoy right now”. Jaya banged his glass on the bar counter, and lit a cigarette. Through a smoke ring, he kept staring at me.

“You went and chopped up your tail rotor, and had the audacity to fly it right back to Chabua”, he said softly. I thought I could make out a note of admiration in his voice. “Sir”, I said pleasantly. “I shall go and pick up the Army Cdr first thing tomorrow morning”. Jaya was my best friend, my guru, my only mentor, my only benefactor in all my years in uniform. “You will do nothing of the sort”, he roared like a lion. “I shall pick up the Army Cdr myself”, he said. “You”…..he paused for effect. “You are f***ing going on permanent detachment to Chakabama”. He said with finality. Chakabama, a helipad in the middle of nowhere in Nagaland was the loneliest place those days, detachment in Chakabama was akin to solitary confinement.

“But for now, Barman…..” he commanded, looking for Durga. “The drink will be on the house, put it all on Kartoos, he will pay for the drinks tonight”. He then raised his glass, like a formal dining in night, “For now, let us drink to Kempy’s nose”. “To Kempy’s nose”, we replied in unison, drowning the glass of large Rum and water in one single bottoms up. That night, we did bottoms up again and again, each time toasting to Kempy’s nose. My bar book was closed that night, I had exceeded Rs 75, the bar book limit.

Considering that Rum cost Rs 3.50 a bottle, and water cost nothing, we drank around 22 bottles of Rum that night, all towards Kempy’s nose. Assuming that there were around 28 of us that night at the bar, including the Gnat guys on detachment at Chabua, that was around 10 large pegs each, all for good cause, Kempy’s nose. May be we all had one peg each and quite possible that Jagga Barar drank the extra 28 pegs. I think it was one of those nights when Jagga did not count the pegs using match sticks, lined up on the bar counter, one stick per peg. I think he lost count, like Counta Barar, who never counted.

Next morning I was packed off to Chakabama in the dicky of a Mil 4, and I am told I kept saying “To Kempy’s Nose” all the way from Chabua to Chakabama, rather silly of me. I stayed there for three whole months before Jaya relented and brought me back.

Kempy now has a wonderful nose. Makes him very handsome and dignified. Every bit like his illustrious martial predecessors from Koorg. I cannot take the credit, it was the Docs at Calcutta who made Kempy’s nose look Koorgi, handsome and accomplished. Me, I take the credit only for the incredible act of closing my bar book in one night, cheering for Kempy’s nose .

* Originally Published under the pen-name "Cyclic".

Editor's Notes:

It is believed that the Army Commander left behind at the BSF post was none other than Lt Gen J F R Jacob.

In addition to the author,
our Thanks go out to Wg Cdr V G Kumar,
Air Marshal P Rajkumar and
Dr S S Sastry for sharing this article

NOTE ;
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017

CHOSEN ARTICLES FOR YOUR PLEASURE READING

CHOSEN ARTICLES FOR YOUR PLEASURE READING
Dear Readers,
      Over the years I have collected a large number of articles on various subjects. These include the ones collected during my service as well. Its my treasure which I have been sharing with my friends through this media. These are uploaded in digital formats on my numerous cloud storages.
      I have great pleasure in sharing my library which also includes articles contributed by friends and colleagues from Army Navy and Indian Air Force with my readers right here on Signals Parivaar Blog site. You will notice that these are spread under carious sections based on my target storage. While you can see the list as you scroll similar lists will appear on clicking the other section shown at the bottom of this post.
      While scrolling on any of the lists you may select your article by stopping your mouse over its title, the mouse icon will changes into a hand icon. By clicking on the selected title the article will open in a New Window for your reading pleasure. There are thousands of articles which you can find on/through this blog-site.
      Lastly I will urge my readers to kindly share their articles write-ups etc with the Veteran's community through this site. Please mail them to mgr.sigs@gmail.com in any file format for upload under your name as the contributor or the author.     The lists follow : -

* SARDAR PATEL - A TRIBUTE
* HOW TO LIVE AND DIE By Khushwant Singh
* THIRD PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY
* LITTLE GIRL WHERE DID I LOSE HER