Unhappy with the submission of recommendations by the Sixth Pay Commission, sixty-five officers of Indian Army has resigned on March 24, 2008. The officers have sought a voluntary retirement and their applications will have to be processed before approval. Most of them are of the colonel and lieutenant colonel ranks. There has been a large-scale resentment among the rank and files of the armed forces over what they see as disparity between them and civil officers.
The large number of resignations in a span of just two weeks has come at a time when the army is facing a shortage of 11,200 officers. Earlier, around 3,000 mid-level commanders had sought voluntary retirement to move to the lucrative private sector. It is expected that more and more army officers will quit if these absurd recommendations are implemented. The armed personnel also complain for luxuries provided to politicians and bureaucrats.
Indian Army was already committing suicide due to frustration; now these recommendations have added fuel to the fire and will further aggravate their complexes!!!
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This is not a new thing in the Indian armed forces. There are a large number of such incidents in the past and many of them were reported by the press while many of them remained out of the media’s sight (thanks to the unwritten censorship imposed on media vis-à-vis armed forces’ moral and professional standard). I happened to visit India last year. A relative of mine had a friend (no name) from a Sikh Regiment. I had an opportunity to meet him and listen to his grievances. Honestly speaking it really moved me to know that the Indian army officers and lower ranks are tied by financial crunches. At that time that officer told me that hundreds of resignations were lying pending with Indian GHQ. The troop’s moral is at the lowest. Some now this news shows that only 65 of them could make their way back to their home. Young lot has refused to join the armed forces. Suicide cases in the forces are another soar point.
Hence I believe that what you have posted here is not a new thing rather talk of the town these days.
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