PPO NUMBER - IDENTIFICATION OF 16 DIGITS

 IDENTIFICATION OF EACH DIGIT OF THE 16 DIGITS IN NEW  PPO./ E-PPO  🌹🌹🌹👨🏼‍🎨🦚

ATTETION VETERAN BROTHERS 

After 7th CPC,  PCDA has started issuing PPO  no  with 16 digits- with and without Notional fixation.  First 12 digits will be the  PPO number and the other 4 digits as Suffix  indicating the Type of pension.  Previously, we had Prefix  to the PPO number Like  S/C/ 123/1998   and D/BC/ 123/1998.  The S/C   and  D/BC  was the    (CONTINUED) >>>>

NDA - AS OF NOW

Amidst all this noise and din of what is happening, came across this post of the venerable Fox of 37*38 course who has just returned from the his course golden jubilee at NDA where they attended the POP of the 137th Course. 

" Sir, I came back home from the GJC a happy man with the conviction (from what I saw and heard) that though NDA has grown by approx 175% in terms of infrastructure, nothing much has  (CONTD) >>>>>

SAD STORY - 1947

During semester end at IIT, I picked fight with a senior. He was a Malang (didn't care about world). I said – "money is everything". He replied – "Didn't you have it in Gujranwala? Why did you run away from there? And what's the guaranty that you won't run away from Amritsar 40 years later?" I was furious. I had no idea what he was saying.Next week, I had a train to Amritsar  (CONTD) >>>

DELHI 1920 - GROWING UP IN CP

GROWING UP IN CONNAUGHT PLACE -  By LALIT NIRULA

Dilliwallahs was a term used for people whose families had been living in Old Delhi – or Purani Dilli – for generations. My family migrated to Delhi in the 1920s and settled in a brand new, still-under-construction, 20,000 inhabitant-strong, New Delhi. And that, I guess, would technically make us Nai Dilliwalas! My folks were one of the few Punjabi families who lived in Delhi in the '20s and I, the Nai Dilliwala or CP wallah, was (CONTD) >>>>>

SECURE YOUR MONEY

Some good practices to keep your money safe 🤑🤑🤑

_*Bank Accounts*_

*1) Make two bank accounts.*

Primary account and Secondary account. Keep all your money in Primary and never use it for online transactions.Never use Primary Debit card anywhere.

Use the Secondary account - (CONTD) >>>

STORY - THE BUDDY

OF THIS AND THAT - THE BUDDY  -      November 22, 2019

Introduction  

The Indian Army Medical Corps is two hundred and fifty-four years old and has had women within its folds both as doctors and nurses since the time women have been allowed to become doctors and nurses. However, these women were mostly posted to peace areas till as recent as the late eighties and mid-nineties. My story (CONTD)>>

CHANGING FAUJI PALATE

THE CHANGING FAUJI PALATE....

1. Times have changed and so have our tastes.The smoked meats & Salmon have given way to Dal Makhani and Butter chicken, Dinner rolls/Garlic Bread to Naan/Roomali Roti.  Eggs, bacon and coffee breakfast are equally at home with Allu-Puri or Allu Paratha & Chai !! The drinking palate has also changed....... Black Knight/Solan No1/Peter Scot have made way for Glenfiddich and other single malts.  What is more is that Yera & Borosil glasses have made way for Crystal whiskey glasses... (CONTINUED)

LIVE - MY SOUL HAS A HAT

MY SOUL HAS A HAT  
Beautiful poem by Mario de Andrade (San Paolo 1893-1945) Poet, novelist, essayist and musicologist.One of the founders of Brazilian modernism.

I counted my years 

& realized that I have

Less time to live by, 

Than I have lived so far.

DIET - DOCTOR'S ADVICE TO DIABETICS

*Rujuta Diwekar* is the highest paid *dietician* in India. She is the one who took care of *junior Ambani* and caused him to lose 108 kgs. 

*Her advice to diabetics*:

  1. *Eat fruits grown locally*..... Banana, Grapes, Chikoo, Mangoes. 

All fruits have FRUCTOSE, so it doesn't matter that you are eating a mango over an Apple. Mango comes from Konkan and Apple from Kashmir. So Mango is more local to you. 

TAMIL NADU - LESSER KNOWN FACTS

LESSER known facts about Tamilnadu. by Dr Srinivasa

1. Tamil Nadu is the second largest economy in India after Maharashtra.

2. Tamil Nadu is the only state which has Indian flag in its seal.

3. Tamil language spoken by Tamil Nadu people is one of the oldest classical languages in the world.

4. 60% of the Total epigraphical inscriptions of India found by ASI (ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA) are from Tamil Nadu.

5. Tamil Nadu has the following UNESCO World heritage sites (continued)

THE MYTH OF HINDU TERROR - by GEN KAMATH

BELIEVE IT OR NOT: THE BALL IS IN OUR COURT

(STABBING THE BACK OF OUR MOTHERLAND WITH IMPUNITY)

By  Lt Gen PG Kamath (Veteran)

I finished reading a book entitled 'The Myth of Hindu Terror' by RVS Mani.  I am sure that the author is a household name for anyone who loves our country, but in case someone has missed him out; he was a middle rung bureaucrat in the MHA during the crucial period of UPA rule between 2006 to 2010.

TRUTH ABOUT HIGH DEFENCE PENSION

The Truth about Rising Defence Pensions

Date : 19 Feb , 2020

There is considerable commotion in media over the rising defence pension outlay which has touched Rs 1.33 lakh crore.  There are headlines like "General Rawat Favours Pension Cut, Colonial Bungalows to go Away" as if the two are connected and auction of colonial bungalows will supplement pension bill, defence budget or money for managing cantonments – which will never happen

PROSTATE

The Prostate Gland and its effect on us , (men only). 

Read it and apply, esp the part on diet.

Useful for all MEN over-40:

A useful article / talk on Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH) or in simple terms, Enlarged Prostate. Diet is the most important part of this talk which is something within our control; and it works. 

FULL TEXT OF PROSTATE HEALTH AWARENESS LECTURE -  MEN MUST READ

POK RECOVERY - ARMY CAPABILITY

Top of FormAMIT SHAH'S POLITICAL AIM TO RECOVER POK IS NOT BACKED BY INDIA'S MILITARY CAPACITY

By comparing the illegal occupation of PoK with that of Aksai Chin, India for the first time has diplomatically put China on defensive.

LT GEN H S PANAGUpdated: 19 September, 2019 11:50 am IST

File photo of PM Narendra Modi with Home Minister Amit Shah | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

After Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, now S. Jaishankar has also made a strong statement on PoK.

CAG - POOR EXECUTION OF ECHS SCHEME

CAG SLAMS DEFENCE MINISTRY OVER POOR EXECUTION OF HEALTH SCHEME FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/cag-slams-defence-ministry-over-poor-execution-of-health-scheme-for-ex-servicemen/articleshow/50286292.cms

The schemes aims to provide health care to around 47 lakh beneficiaries on a cashless basis in line with Central Government health Scheme.

By PTI | Updated: Jul 11, 2018, 05.36 PM IST

The schemes aims to provide health care to around 47 lakh beneficiaries on a cashless basis in line with Central Government health Scheme.

NEW DELHI: Top government auditor has slammed the  Defence Ministry over alleged "irregularities" and "deficiency" in the implementation of the Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme which caused the exchequer a loss of over Rs 100 crore.

SKY GETS DARK

*The Sky Gets Dark, Slowly-A must read for all Senior citizens*

Mao Dun literary prize winner Zhou Daxin's latest novel soon to be published, *The Sky Gets Dark, Slowly* , is a sensitive exploration of old age and the complex, hidden emotional worlds of the elderly in a  rapidly ageing population.

In it he writes, "…Many elderly speak as though they know everything, but of old age they are in fact as ignorant as children. Many elderly are in fact, completely unprepared for what they are to face when it comes to getting old and the road that lays ahead of them.

DOON SCHOOL BOYS

THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW THE DOON SCHOOL GOON SQUAD RAN BHARATAVARSHA TO THE GROUND

A commentary on how the political elite from Doon School at Dehradun held back India's all-round progress and development and treated the country as their fiefdom

Prime Minister Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was forty-one when his stately form set foot once again on the opulent lawns of his alma mater to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. He was decked up in an elegant old boys' navy blue blazer and tie with the school badge affixed on the breast pocket. A minor fuss had ensued regarding the sartorial decision: 

ACCESSION OF J & K 1947

26TH OCTOBER 1947: MAHARAJA HARI SINGH AGREES TO THE ACCESSION OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR TO INDIA

"Now, therefore, I Shriman Inder Mahander Rajrajeswar Maharajadhiraj Shri Hari Singhji, Jammu and Kashmir Naresh Tatha Tibbetadi Deshadhipathi, Ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, in the exercise of my sovereignty in and over my said State do hereby execute this my Instrument of Accession [. . .]"By signing on this legal document, known as the Instrument of Accession, on October 26, 1947, Hari Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, agreed that the State would become a part of India.

PVC STORY - MAJ SOM NATH SHARMA

THE INDO-PAK WAR OF 1 9 4 7 -4 8

"THE BRAVE PARAM VEER CHAKRA STORIES"  

 E BOOK by   RACHNA BISHT RAWAT

  

 Soon after Independence and the painful partition of British India, India and Pakistan fought their first war over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. In June 1947, when Partition was announced, the 600 princely states that existed then were given the choice to accede to either India or Pakistan, or remain independent.

FORM 10 E SUBMISSION

How to submit Form 10E Arrears  Relief U/s 89(1) through Online for the Financial Year 2018-19 within stipulated time Posted: 07 Jun 2019 04:46 PM PDT $ Login to Income Tax e-filing account with valid credentials $ Go to e-File >> Income Tax Forms

MONEY-POWER

POWER OF MONEY

Remember Hindi Film 'Chalti ka naam gadi'? It was for it's one scene and dialog spoken by villain KN Singh who was a filthy rich man by dubious means, I still cherish the movie. In the scene, his goons are seen dragging a female whose father was a rich but defenceless man whom he got murdered.

TAXES - WHY INDIANS RESIST

🎂   *Why do Indians resist paying taxes ?*

Interesting thoughts on why Indian resist paying taxes, in an open letter to the Prime Minister_. 

 This is what we honest citizens feel about our Governments - Central and State...

 On behalf of professionals & businessmen, I am sending you some facts ..

 Please try to unnderstand.

NDA-HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE INDIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY,

KHADAKVASLA, PUNE (INDIA)

Background: 

In 1941, the Government of Sudan gifted a sum of £100,000 (then a very large sum of about Rs 14 Lakhs) to the Viceroy of India to build a suitable War Memorial as a token of appreciation of the services and sacrifices made by the Indian troops for the defence of Sudan.

71-WAR-HERO

FROM THE PAGES OF 1971 USA FILES

India loses 1971 war hero; declassified CIA files reveal impact of his Operation Trident

The Karachi harbour attack by a group of three small missile boats of the Indian Navy — stretched to their endurance limits and virtually unprotected against air strikes — was a turning point of the 1971 war with Pakistan.

CONSUMER-INDIA

Consumers India

Subject: Welcome to Consumers India in April, 2019! Introduce Product Recall System in India, Mr Prime Minister; Wish to intern with Consumers India? Apply just now; ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD; Invitation to visit Painting Exhibition; Truth about Ice-creams and Frozen Desserts and more........!!!!

Welcome to our April Newsletter! 

Introduce Product Recall System in India, Mr Prime Minister

Wish to intern with Consumers India? Apply just now!

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD!

MODI - HIMSELF

*Modi JI writes on himself*

My family of 8 lived in a 40x12 feet house – it was small, but enough for us. Our days began early, around 5 AM when my mother would provide traditional forms of curing and healing to newborns and small children. Through the night my brother and I would take turns to keep the 'chula' going for her to use. She didn't have the fortune of getting an education, but God was kind and she had a special way of curing ailments. Mothers would line up outside our house every morning because she was known for her healing touch.

MISSING AN-32

MISSING AN 32

Indian Army's prayer for the 13 brave Air Warriors of our Air Force who are missing in the AN32 crash.

These Brave Hearts are the only life line for many areas like Arunachal Pradesh. Imagine a part of your Country, where you fly hundreds of kilometers, no inhabitants, no medical, no post office, no police station, no railways, no bus stand, no communication, no Internet, only wilderness

IIC -इंडिया इंटरनेशनल सेंटर

इंडिया इंटरनेशनल सेंटर (IIC) 

🔴नेहरू द्वारा बनाये गये इस मधुमख्खी के छत्ते में साठ साल में पहली बार मोदी ने लाठी मारी है !!

🔺वास्तव में ‘सत्ता’ का असली अर्थ समझना हो तो- दिल्ली में स्थित इंडिया इंटरनेशनल सेंटर(IIC) घूम आइये.. इंडिया इंटरनेशनल सेंटर (IIC) वो जगह है जहाँ सत्ता सोने की चमकती थालियों में परोसी जाती है -

GRAPHENE - A WONDER MATERIAL

Worldwide race for Wonder material Graphene, in commercial,  energy, aerospace and defence sectors

Graphene is a 1-atom-thick layer of tightly bonded carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. Graphene the world’s first 2D nanomaterial, is widely regarded as the “wonder material” of the 21st century due to the combination of its extraordinary properties. As a single layer of graphite, it is the thinnest material (monoatom thick),

THE SIGNALMAN (.) PDF

THE SIGNALMAN - CORPS OF SIGNALS JOURNAL.

PUBLISHED AT MCTE MHOW.
EDITOR = COL HS BHANDARI

Every Sparrow look forwarded to this  wonderful Magazine, more so after one retires it coonects him with the Corps Events.

The Signalman Journal is sent by post to the life members by POST which has its own misgivings that in most of the cases it does not reach the addresses, it is obviously being pilfered while in transit and could be landing with the scrap dealers. There is nothing much we the recipients can do  about it. That's the postal environment these days of Email and Whats app.

PIGGY BACK

Piggybacking The Armed Forces For Political Gains – India Elections 2019       By Jaishree Laxmikant  12 May 2019

 I wish this election season would end soon. I am not anxious about who will form the next government or to know who our next Prime Minister will be. Every party has its share of wrongdoings, so called reforms and a manifesto, which may or may not see fulfillments. There is only so much we as citizens can do. Those things will eventually come to the fore at the designated time.

DYNASTY

DYNASTY: FROM STARDUST TO SAWDUST 

M.J.Akbar at his best. Read it for the brilliance of its diction:

The clues lay all around us, pebbles  scattered in different corners of public discourse; or occasionally  wrapped in whispers, at the edge of the narrative rather than the main story.The reasons for victory and defeat in something as momentous as an Indian general election are far more complex than any one factor, and yet an event or an incident can become a metaphor that defines the larger story.

AMRINDER

The enigma of the Captain Captain Amarinder's armada withstood the Modi wave even as his party was decimated outside Punjab

Bhopinder Singh28 May 2019 10:05 PM

Punjab was arguably the only honourable exception to the recent decimation of Congress, and the man who defended his citadel valiantly, was the 'Maharaja' of the foremost Phulkian State, Patiala - Captain Amarinder Singh, from the 2nd Sikh Regiment. The proud former soldier and military historian, who wears his soldering lineage on his heart and sleeve, lived up to his regimental motto, 'Nischay Kar Apni Jeet Karon' (With determination, I will be triumphant).

ECHS - PROVISIONS , MSG FROM NEW MD ECHS

*From MD ECHS*  (NEW ECHS MD )

1. I have been reading a number of e-mails and have come across numerous cases where ECHS beneficiaries are facing difficulties because

MILITARY & CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

Constitutional provisions for the executive authority of the military. Constitutional military executive authority of the soldiers comes out of the following articles:

1. Article 18;- respects the "Title of Ranks" of Soldiers even after his death. Soldiers never retire. Title of Ranks never die.

MODI MEDITATION & ELECTIONS -2019

Will Modi Meditating be the Defining Moment of This Election?

The picture of Modi sitting in the cave with his eyes closed, meditating reminded me of a picture from another era from childhood.

REMOTE RULE

*Those 11 Years Of Authoritarian  remote control rule by Sonia Gandhi.*

*Written by Congress Central minister Margaret Alva*

As excerpts from Margaret Alva's book 'Courage and Commitment – An Autobiography' are making headlines, one after another, the fears of millions of  Bharatiya citizens are coming true – that Sonia Gandhi functions in an absolutely arbitrary manner and supports corrupt, anti-national activities and nexus. 

DEGRADATION

Armed Forces are degraded of late - WHY

I am 71 years old and have no ambitions left. I have been lucky to retire as Brigadier with total service of 32 years. I am convinced my own course mates who are better than me as GCs in IMA Dehradun did not become Brigs not because of anything lacking in them. It is only luck which I had and which they did not. I was lucky to serve under very kind and magnanimous COs who over rated me and I ended up my career fairly well.

POLITICISATION

 The politicisation of India's 3.5 million strong military is a fiercely debated subject today. But in this passionate and largely irresolvable argument, the uniforms' culpability in pleasing the politician is rarely, if at all dwelt upon. This is because it has become an axiom in official and media circles that the military remains sacrosanct, commits no wrong and its behaviour is unchallengeable and beyond reproach.   

HANUT

Lt. Gen. HANUT SINGH- A PERSONAL TRIBUTE

           By Maroof Raza

   In April this year, Lt.. General Hanut Singh ascended to the heavens. And since then, my mail box - like that of so many others in the serving and retired military fraternity – has been flooded with emails about the man, who had acquired a legendary standing in the Indian army. I cannot recall any General, other than Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw, who received the kind of adulation and respect that General Hanut has received.

ELECTIONS - SOLDIERS

ELECTIONS AND THE SERVICE PERSONNEL

With HSC ruling in favour of Serving personnel registering as voters in their respective duty stations, such allegations against the commanders are bound to arise and also increase in the future. This kind of problem was visualised even in 2014. We are  reproducing an article of April 2014, written by our Ex Chief Election Commissioner, N Gopalaswami.

SKY

*The Sky Gets Dark, Slowly*

Mao Dun literary prize winner Zhou Daxin's latest novel to be published, "The Sky Gets Dark, Slowly", is a sensitive exploration of old age and the complex, hidden emotional worlds of the elderly in a  rapidly ageing population.

Bengal

*IT WAS BIRTHDAY OF WEST BENGAL**

*Abnormal it may sound, but the fact remains that on this day of 1947, after much hardship Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was able to influence the Bengal Legislature to include the Hindu part of Bengal within India!*

*Md Ali Jinnah very clearly said he will not settle for Bengal, if Calcutta is not given to Pakistan!*

POLL OFFICIALS - 2019

These poll officials are breaking the internet

Shailvee Sharda & Jamal Ayub TNN

Lucknow/Bhopal:
Two polling officers have become internet sensations after their photographs, clicked while on duty during the Lok Sabha elections, went viral online. They have been flooded with friends request on social media, are being approached by strangers for selfies and TV cameras have chased them home for interviews.

NALWA

30 अप्रैल/बलिदान-दिवस - अद्भुत योद्धा हरिसिंह नलवा

भारत पर विदेशी आक्रमणकारियों की मार सर्वप्रथम सिन्ध और पंजाब को ही झेलनी पड़ी। 1802 में रणजीत सिंह विधिवत महाराजा बन गये। 40 साल के शासन में उन्हें लगातार अफगानों और पठानों से जूझना पड़ा। इसमें मुख्य भूमिका उनके सेनापति हरिसिंह नलवा की रही। 1802 में उन्होंने कसूर के पठान शासक निजामुद्दीन तथा 1803 में झंग के पठानों को हराया। 1807 में मुल्तान के शासक मुजफ्फर खान को हराकर उससे वार्षिक कर लेना शुरू किया। 

FAMILIES

Is there anything tougher than writing letters to families of the Martyred !  Those who made the ultimate......?

by Lt Col George Goodson, USMC (Ret)

My two years as Casualty Notification Officer in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.

It was late 1967. I had just returned after 18 months in Vietnam. Casualties were increasing. I moved my family from Indianapolis to Norfolk, rented a house, enrolled my children in their fifth or sixth new school, and bought a second car.

IAF

;"THE IAF LIVES UP TO ITS MOTTO TO TOUCH THE SKY WITH GLORY IN DARKNESS AND BY DAY"


By Air Chief Marshal A.Y. Tipnis (Retd) Led the IAF with distinction as its Chief during the Kargil War in 1999

The highly complex Balakot operation was planned and conducted by the IAF through outstanding team work within the service, as well as with other government agencies. A month after celebrating its 69th anniversary, the Indian Republic awakened to its strategic responsibility of protecting its citizens. An awakening that shook off the blindfold of self-delusion that had cajoled itself and its citizens into believing that destructive attacks against its people and real estate were acts of terror by extreme radical groups, and finally accepted that these were in reality acts of war, and had to be responded against as such.

IDENTITY - MY BATTLE TO BE AN ESM

"Nemo Resideo - The Battle for My Identity

 April 12, 2019,   Lally Virk.   These are not my usual musings.

I am plucking a leaf from my life of the last five years, to tell you all how seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome if one has the strength of one’s convictions, courage, will, grit, determination and perseverance.

KUMARAMANGALAM

GENERAL PP KUMARAMANGALAM

The Chief who Overcame the Ministry of Defence

By Lt Col CR Sundar, psc, MSc(Defence Studies)

          One of the greatest Generals of modern India was General Paramasiva Prabhakara Kumaramangalam whose 106th Birth Anniversary falls on 01 July 2019. General PP Kumaramangalam was the 7th Chief of the Army Staff from June 1966 to June 1969.

RAVI-SATLUJ

The Battle for Ravi-Sutlej Corridor 1965

A Strategic and Operational Analysis

A.H Amin

Originally Published in Defence Journal Karachi, December 2001 Issue

http://www.defencejournal.com/2001/dec/ravi.htm

The Indian attack on Lahore in particular and Ravi-Sutlej Corridor in general has remained the subject of too much propaganda and too little analysis. On Pakistani side the Battle for Lahore was seen as a superhuman effort while on the Indian side it exposed many glaring weaknesses in the Indian Army at unit, brigade, divisional and corps level.

On the other hand the total failure of the main Pakistani attack in Khem Karan was ignored or forgotten in the smoke screen of glory created by official propagandists who successfully shifted the entire public attention on laurels of Aziz Bhatti etc.