Tribute paid to 76 CRPF Jawans martyred for the country in the Naxalite attack on 6 April 2010 in Tadmetla, Chhattisgarh by organizing a heartfelt tribute program at 55th Battalion CRPF Campus Bawana Delhi.
In a press release issued by Confederation of Ex Paramilitary Forces Martyrs Welfare Association General Secretary Ranbir Singh, it was said that such a big, gruesome and cowardly Naxalite attack has probably never happened in the history of the country before when the tricolour flags fell short for the coffins of the soldiers.
We have been constantly appealing to the Union Home Ministry for the establishment of Paramilitary Flag Day Fund for the better education, health, welfare and rehabilitation of the children and widows of these brave warriors whose mutilated bodies made their last journey wrapped in the tricolour,
who gave supreme martyrdom for the nation without caring for their families, wives and children. The statement given by the Hon’ble Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Parliament in which he said that the government has no intention of setting up Paramilitary Flag Day Fund in this manner.
The irresponsible statement given by the Hon’ble Minister has created an atmosphere of despair among 20 lakh paramilitary families, which we strongly oppose. The government should tell in what conditions the martyr families are living today.
Former ADG CRPF Shri HR Singh said that due to the last assembly and now parliamentary general elections, the program of timely leave of the soldiers has been disturbed and the Home Ministry’s claim of 100 days leave has become meaningless.
Shri Singh questioned the government’s intention to hang the historic paramilitary old pension restoration order pronounced by the Hon’ble High Court on 11 January 2021 and said that the paramilitary soldiers who keep getting martyred every day,
do they not have the right that the Home Ministry should take necessary steps to establish paramilitary schools, paramilitary welfare boards and paramilitary flag day fund for better education of children.
Former ADG Shri HR Singh, Shri Yadavendra Singh Commandant, Amresh Kumar Commandant, apart from senior officers of various battalions, soldiers, havildars, former paramilitary personnel paid emotional tribute with moist eyes.
