The Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday felicitated the ex-servicemen and families of the martyred soldiers in a programme held at the Constitution Club.
He also said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would have never been a successful without the support of ex-servicemen. We have recruited a lot of ex-servicemen in the enforcement wing of the transport department. We have recruited 13,000 marshals on the buses. We wrote to the State Sainik Board and the Central Government, and have given jobs to all those ex-servicemen who applied. We want to work closely with ex-servicemen. We are very proud of the nation's Army."
"We cannot put a price to the lives of martyred soldiers, but we have tried to honour them. Our Government has worked to provide financial assistance of Rs 1 crore to the family of martyred soldiers living in Delhi and job to one family member. In the last five years, our Government has recruited ex-servicemen on a large scale in several departments and utilised their abilities. This is the reason why education and security arrangements have been improved in Delhi today," said Keriwal while addressing honouring the ex-servicemen.
He said, "We never able to realize how their families, several thousand kilometers away, wait when our soldiers protect us on the border and when they find out that he was martyred and his body comes home, what they will have to suffer and how they will bear it. Our soldiers have shown amazing valor and courage for Mother India whenever needed."
Adding on, Kejriwal said, "We had not yet utilised this quality to its full potential. So, our Government recruited ex-servicemen in many positions in the last five years. Education and administrative work was the responsibility of the principal in schools.
We distributed the workload of the principals and appointed ex-servicemen as estate managers in all schools. The estate manager looks after the administrative work and the principal, the academic work.
Today, education, cleanliness, and security arrangements have improved with the support of the ex-servicemen," he said.