The Uttarakhand Government is committed to give every possible support with due respects to the martyrs irrespective of the fact whether they belong to armed forces, paramilitary and police. The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat made this observation while undertaking a review meeting of Sainik Kalyan, Para military welfare and Police welfare at his residence on Thursday. He said that a fund would be set aside for giving financial help to the retired personnel of para military forces. He said that a committee headed by Chairman Sainik Kalyan Parishad would be set for armed forces veterans. Similarly the Chairman of Ardh Sainik Kalyan Parishad would head a committee for welfare of retired personnel of Para military and home minister of Uttarakhand would head a similar committee for welfare of police personnel.
The CM said that these committees would undertake a study of martyr’s family and would give a report to the government. The State Government would give a monetary help of `2 lakh to the family of the martyr. Rawat said that it is expected that these committees would gather information about all martyrs of the State and monitor the implementation of the welfare declarations of State Government.
The CM ordered that jawans ‘killed in action’ would also be kept in the category of martyrs. He said that the minister incharges of respective districts and respective district magistrates would compulsorily attend the last rites of the martyrs. Rawat said that it should be ensured that the financial help declared by the state government is provided to the family within a time period of 10 days. The CM asked the officials to paste the information of schemes of soldier welfare on the notice boards of District magistrates, information offices, hospitals, canteens and Sainik welfare board. He directed the officials to prepare the organizational structure of Sainik and Ardh Sainik Kalyan Parishad as soon as possible.
The meeting was attended by Sainik Kalyan Minister Harak Singh Rawat, Chairman of Sainik Kalyan Parishad lt General Gambhir Singh Negi (Rtd), Principal secretary Om Prakash, secretary soldier welfare Bhupendra Kaur Olakh, secretary home Vinod Sharma, DG Police B S Siddhu and Managing Director of
UPNl Brigadier A N Bahuguna (Rtd).