Even as another soldier took his life on Thursday, Army chief General Bikram Singh said the recent cases of suicide and stand-offs between officers and jawans were “isolated incidents” in the 1.13-million strong force.
Asked about the ugly face-off between officers and jawans of an armoured corps unit at Samba in J&K after a soldier committed suicide on August 8, Gen Singh said, “We have instituted two separate courts of inquiry. There was no connection between the suicide and the incident.”
“Let me tell you that the situation is not that bad… these are isolated incidents. As far as the atmosphere in battalions is concerned, we are looking into them and trying to correct them. We have been trying to address these issues,” he said. “I have been addressing the troops and officers, and I will be going to Siachen (and eastern Ladakh) tomorrow and there also, I will do the same thing.”
Gen Bikram Singh
The remarks came even as another soldier, Bhup Singh of the 72nd Armoured Regiment, committed suicide at his unit residential quarter in Hisar. “He hanged himself from the ceiling fan after his wife left to drop their two children to school at about 7.30 am,” said an officer.
As many as 1,018 soldiers have committed suicide since 2003, with the yearly toll regularly crossing the 100-mark every year, as reported by TOI earlier. Three face-offs between officers and jawans have also been reported in the Army over the last one year.
Among them was the one in Nyoma sector of eastern Ladakh in May that ended in a violent clash between officers and jawans of the 226 Field Artillery Regiment, leaving the unit commanding officer, two majors and two jawans hospitalized with limb fractures, bruises and other injuries. The three incidents are a clear indicator of the declining standards of leadership and discipline in the Army, where jawans are no longer willing to be humiliated by their officers.
“The feudal culture which still persists in the Army is causing the problem. While the educational levels and aspirations of jawans has gone up, there is still too much disparity between them and the officers in terms of accommodation, salary and other perks,” admitted a senior officer.
In fact, a parliamentary report had even castigated the defence ministry for failing to deal with the malaise of stress-related deaths in the Army. It had called for a total revamp of the existing mechanisms to deal with stress and other problems faced by soldiers.
-via The Times of India.
I also agreed to Pawan, it is truth. If you really want to know actual position of harassment done by the Indian officer of their Jawan. U simply look in fronts off the any convent school in the Delhi Many are dropping their child in the school with govt vehicles, their ladies visiting to Bazar and them self using the vehicles to go the home to office but they also drawing their TPTL from the CDA because who is the authority ??????????? all are in their hand, who will ask them, if any inquiry carried out, who will be the investigate the fact ????? they it self than it can be possible that truth came to notice to people. .
As regards salary disparity I only give one example here. A MNS who sitting in the AC room in the hospital getting msp 4800 and a Jawan give the night duty on the loc in leh in a very verse conditon getting only 2000. which is this can any one say about this ????? aur ye to ek wangi hai agar ander gai to fir ……………………………………………………………………. ram bachaye is officer ki harassment se……………
Very coorectly written, surprising thing is this y govt is stiil not taking any action, by the time govt will come in action it will be too late. officers have crossed all the limits of harasment to jaweans.
All things r wrong said by army general asked him how many sepoy he has at his home as a servent and Wts their work there to walk their dogs to polished their shoes and pressed their cloths washed his wife Penti etc to sift their and theirs relatives quarters Wts things r not in army which r not to be done by a jawan the vichcal which r for jawan they r using by officer rasan se lekar clothing tak bhi officer khate h , jawan ko milta h harassment only , yaar servent ban ke rah gai h indian army kya Yahi h world ki no 2 thal sena salo ne darpok bana diya h hame kute ghuma ghuma ke bartan dhula dhula ke jawan sirf inke kam ke liye inki party ke liye h, kya ye gen bikram singh Nahi janta , kya a k anthony Nahi janta , agar Nahi jante to jhut bolte h , wo mouthu sahi h wo tu Kuch Nahi bata raha Uska 100 times harassment hota h indian army me , bachao anthony saab Nahi to 1 din bina seniko ki sena ke senapati banker ghanta hilan
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