ITBP unhappy at dead personnel not getting ‘martyr’ tag

[indian_foxhound]

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP) is unhappy that its men killed during rescue operations in Uttarakhand won’t get the status of a ‘martyr’ unlike the Indian Air Force personnel who died along with them while trying to save flood victims.

Twenty people — six from ITBP, nine from NDRF and five IAF personnel were killed last month in a helicopter crash near Gaurikund in Uttarakhand while returning after rescuing scores of people to safety. The nine NDRF personnel, too, were from ITBP on deputation to NDRF.

“While the deceased IAF personnel will be called martyrs, our boys who were killed with them will be only dead bodies,” said a senior officer.

It’s not just the ITBP that feels discriminated against in death. It is a longstanding demand of all central armed police forces, including CRPF and BSF, that their personnel be accorded martyr status when they die in the line of duty. The martyr tag ensures a host of benefits for the kin of the deceased personnel, including a state government job and special pass for train journey.

Personnel of the defence forces — Army, Navy and IAF — attain ‘martyrdom’ when killed in service. Central forces, deployed in counter-insurgency operations, on the international border, to maintain law and order, election duty and in rescue operations, lose many personnel each year.

In the last three years — between 2010 and April 2013 — 309 personnel of central forces were killed in the line of duty, according to the home ministry. Of those killed, 233 belonged to the CRPF — nodal force for the country’s anti-Maoist operations.

For years, the All India Central Paramilitary Forces Ex-servicemen Welfare Association has been presenting their demands to the government but to no avail.

To a question by an MP in Lok Sabha in April, minister of state for home R P N Singh had replied, “Martyr/shaheed is not defined by the government anywhere and presently no order/notification are being issued for the CAPF personnel to give status of martyr/shaheed to those killed in the line of duty.”

A source said the home ministry cannot move on it due to objections by the defence ministry.

“The service condition of central forces personnel are regulated by a strong set of acts with provision to award punishment up to court martial similar to defence forces. However, pay, perks and post-retirement benefits, including pension, are equal to civilian employees even though the central forces perform more hazardous tasks,” said P S Nair, general secretary of the association.

For the last 13 years, the association has approached the government for separate service and pension rules for central forces. “But, there is no positive response,” said Nair.

ITBP unhappy at dead personnel not getting

 

[Manindra]

These idiotic rules make me mad

 

[Hobo1]

swonia ki maa .................

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Its time we should give the title of 'martyr' uniform to all.

 

[kurup]

Debate over who should get the soldier and martyr tag is in itself a disrespect to all those brave souls who has laid down lives for our country .

 

[Spring Onion]

Debate over who should get the soldier and martyr tag is in itself a disrespect to all those brave souls who has laid down lives for our country .

I think the respect is already there but feel the tag is tagged along with perks and pervilages thats why they also demand it

 

[kurup]

I think the respect is already there but feel the tag is tagged along with perks and pervilages thats why they also demand it

I dont think there is any perks or privileges provided with these tags .

It's more of a inter-force battle between military , para-military and CAPF .

 

[Spring Onion]

I dont think there is any perks or privileges provided with these tags .

It's more of a inter-force battle between military , para-military and CAPF .

“The service condition of central forces personnel are regulated by a strong set of acts with provision to award punishment up to court martial similar to defence forces. However, pay, perks and post-retirement benefits, including pension, are equal to civilian employees even though the central forces perform more hazardous tasks,” said P S Nair, general secretary of the association

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...nel-not-getting-martyr-tag.html#ixzz2ZJQlh4G8

 

[third eye]

The Para Military forces are headed mostly by the IPS cadre officers. They see these postings as plum jobs or as options to side step from their own cadre when things get hot in their state.

What dedication can one expect from partisan leaders who have not grown with & inside the organization they head ? They do not know the rank & file , the living conditions , the hardships - anything at all. Even basic tactics is not known.

Why should he then thump the table and seek privileges for his men ? He would rather think of himself.

The Army had made a case for the ITBP to come under its wings like the Assam Rifles - the mandarins in North Block felt otherwise.

A comparison between the Assam Rifles & other PM Forces would speak for itself.

 

[kurup]

“The service condition of central forces personnel are regulated by a strong set of acts with provision to award punishment up to court martial similar to defence forces. However, pay, perks and post-retirement benefits, including pension, are equal to civilian employees even though the central forces perform more hazardous tasks,” said P S Nair, general secretary of the association

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...nel-not-getting-martyr-tag.html#ixzz2ZJQlh4G8

But it does not prove there is any perk or privileges with soldier or martyr tag as you said .