Army chief warns soldiers who fake disability to earn extra pension

n PUNE: Bipin warned themselves Chief Rawat soldiers of ‘disabled’ Army who on Staff Thursday falsely and General make call their extra money, disability through a way disability to earn pension.

“If a soldier is truly disabled, we will pay special attention to them and help them fully, even financially. But, those who falsely call themselves ‘disabled’ and make their disability a way to earn money, I am warning them today, that you better mend your ways otherwise in a few days you might receive special instructions from the Army Headquarters, which will not be good news for you,” he said.

General Rawat was attending a ceremony at the Bombay Engineering Group (BEG) & Centre, Kirkee, near Pune . The Indian Army declared 2018 as the ‘Year of the Disabled Soldiers (in line of duty)’ and to commemorate the same a ‘Samman Samaroh’ was organised by Southern Command on Thursday. Six hundred disabled soldiers were present at the event, where General Rawat criticised those officers, jawans and other ranks who cite hypertension, blood pressure and diabetes as the reason for being disabled and are not willing to be posted to operational areas. “We cannot allow disability to become a reason for avoiding operational deployment and operational duties at the cost of those officers and men who continue to perform their duties till their last breath in medical category shape 1 and continue to bear the load of the others without remorse,” said General Rawat.

› I (those am warning soldiers them who falsely call themselves

disabled) today, that you better mend your ways... GENERAL BIPIN RAWAT, Army chief