Dear Veteran Achuthan,

[R Padmanabhan]

Dear Veteran Achuthan, This refers your post in Veterans India. I felt that I should share with you a recent incidence which happened with me in a similar situation,just to dispel  your apprehension, perhaps shared by some others, that Officers, W.Os,SNCOs and Airmen are different categories who get different treatment at ECHS Polyclinics.  I am settled at Coimbatore.ECHS Polyclinic inside No 6 AF Hospital, gives medical cover to all veterans in and around Coimbatore.Coimbatore being the second biggest City in Tamilnadu after Chennai with a host of Medical facities. Veterans from near bytowns including Palghat come for their medical requirements to this Polyclinic.   Right from Jun/July 2012 not even a single Hospital/ LAB  is on theEmpanelment List of this ECHS posing difficulties to all veterans in general and serious problems to veterans who have major ailments in particular.. From the Month of November 12 onwards Empanelment for EYE and Orthopsadics have come into existence bringing in some some relief.But still, for majority of the specialist care, Veterans are finding it difficult co cope with.   My wife had Thyroid problems and I had to carry out the Blood Test which was getting overdue in her case.Finally , I was left with no option, but to go to a Private Clinic and get the tests done. I have now forwarded my claim of reimbursement, awaiting the outcome.   Similarly there is widespread discontentment with NA medicine as well.  But such problems are being faced by every Veteran irrespective of Rank/ Service.I find that such misplaced feeling of victimisation based on rank or Service as expressed in your mail  does not augur well in the true spirit of the services. Giving a colour of class division to such problems which are commonly faced by every veteran is against the common interest of Veterans as a whole and hence this trend should be curbed at the earliest.   We have been hearing a lot about you and the EXWELTRUST through which a series of welfare acivities for the benefit of Veterans is being organised in and around Tirunelveli. Veteran  of your standing, I am sure will be able to appreciate aim behind such malicious tendencies which are against the interest of Veterans.    I sincerely urge you to share this concept with others, who may be feeling victimised , attributing imaginary reasons, where none exist actually on the ground.    --- On Fri, 25/1/13, vetera...@googlegroups.com <vetera...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

[R Padmanabhan]

With best wishes, R Padmanabhan

[devender kumar uberoy]

Please quote correct web site for senior citizens old age homes.

Thanks

Regards

Uberoy

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:50 AM, <vetera...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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• Senior citizens in India are increasingly turning to old age homes to escape loneliness. SANGEETA YADAV tells you more [2 Updates]
• Update your profile and get jobs [1 Update]
• Empress of India - an essay by Francois Gautier · [1 Update]
• Medicare fails to take flight for ex-IAF officer [1 Update]
• Change of mailing address [1 Update]
• From The PCDA(O) [1 Update]

 Senior citizens in India are increasingly turning to old age homes to escape loneliness. SANGEETA YADAV tells you more

ro...@capsicumtechnologies.co.in Jan 24 12:07AM -0800  

Thanks to veteran India for publishing such a wonderful article and also
inviting others to provide
their opinions. Senior citizens in India today either have to stay home
alone or many of them choose
old age centres as they meet people of the same age and bond over with them.
 
Here I would like to present an initiative taken by "*The Golden Estate*"
which has come forth
and tried to provide a solution to this kind of problem faced by senior
citizens or old parents. They
have come up with service apartments at Delhi NCR , the most unique thing
about this project is that
the eligibility criteria to be a resident of The Golden Estate is that you
need to be of 55 years of
age or above.
 
This is a project that epitomizes finest community lifestyle for senior
citizens and aims at providing a
joyful, secure and a dignified lifestyle for the elderly in their golden
years.
 
A Project where each significant detail – from food and dietary planning to
security and medical
care, from laundry and housekeeping to entertainment – has been well
thought-out to ensure that
our residents are always happy, comfortable, active, secure and looked
after. For more details you
can log onto the website *
http://www.thegoldenestate.com/current-location.html*
*
*
Rgds
Rohan
 
On Sunday, April 8, 2012 9:33:10 AM UTC+5:30, Veterans India wrote:


 

K L Arora <aror...@gmail.com> Jan 25 12:25AM +0530  

Any such homes in Pune?
 
 


 

 Update your profile and get jobs

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 Empress of India - an essay by Francois Gautier ·

veteransindia <afahea...@gmail.com> Jan 24 03:22AM -0800  

*WITHOUT PREJUDICE*

Empress of India - an essay
by Francois Gautier ·

Like Sonia Gandhi, I am a Westerner and a brought-up catholic. My father, a
very good man, was a staunch Christian; my uncle, whom I doted upon, was
the vicar of the Montmartre Church, one of the most picturesque landmarks
of Paris. Like Sonia Gandhi, I have lived in India for more than 40 years,
and I have had the good fortune to be married to an Indian. But the
comparison stops there. I did land in India with a certain amount of
prejudices, clichés and false ideas, that most Westerners pick-up here and
there (Tintin, Kipling, the City of Joy, Slumdog Millionaire, today) and I
did think in the enthusiasm of my youth to become a missionary to bring
back Indian ‘pagans’ to the ‘true God’. But the moment I stepped in India I
felt that not only I had nothing much that I could give to India, but
rather, that it was India which was bestowing me.

In fact, in 40 years, India has given me so much, professionally,
spiritually, sentimentally. Most Westerners, who come here, still think
they are here to ‘give’ something to a country, which, unconsciously of
course, they think is lesser than theirs. It was true of the British, it
was true of Mother Teresa, it is true of Mrs Sonia Gandhi.

It is a fact that Sonia brought discipline, order and cohesion into the
Congress party. But the amount of power, that she, a non-Indian, a simple
elected MP, like hundreds of others, possesses, should frighten her: a
word, nay a glance of her is sufficient to trigger action by her entourage,
using any means. Thus, the instruments of power have never been so
perverted in India. The CBI blatantly and shamelessly quashed all
injunctions against Quattrochi and even allowed him to get away with
billions of rupees which he had stolen from India. Yet, without batting an
eyelid, and with the Indian Media turning a blind eye, it goes ruthlessly
after Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the most efficiently run state,
the most corruption free, where there is electricity 24 hours, when half of
India is in darkness, where there is unlimited water supply whereas a
drought-like situation is evolving in many states.

Today the Congress, with Sonia’s overt or silent consent, pays crores of
rupees to buy MP’s to topple non-Congress governments. Her governors
shamelessly hijack democracy by twisting the laws.
Are Indians aware that their country has entered a state of semi-autocracy,
where every important decision comes to a single individual, residing in
her fortress of Janpath, surrounded by dozens of security men, an empress
of India. Are they aware that she controls tens of billions of rupees of
the taxpayer’s money, which she uses to keep her party in power? Do they
know that the huge amounts of the scams, whether the 2G, the CWG, or the
Adarsh one, do not go into politicians pockets (only a fraction), but to
the coffers of the Congress for the next general elections, and more than
anything to please Sonia, who is trying to install her son on the throne of
India? Thank God, the Judiciary here still holds some independence!

Nobody seems to notice what is happening under the reign of Sonia Gandhi.
That many leftist intellectuals are allowed to preach secession in India,
whereas on the other hand the Congress Government has been going after the
army, the last body in India to uphold the time honoured values of the *
Kshatriya *–courage, honour, devotion to the Motherland, they who alone
today practice true secularism, never differentiating between a Muslim or
Hindu soldier, and who, for a pittance, give daily their lives to their
country. First it was the attempt of a caste census, a divide and rule ploy
if there is one; then there are the many signs that the Government is
thinking about thinning down the presence of the Indian army in the Kashmir
Valley, which will suit Pakistan perfectly.

One hears from persons who know her well, of Sonia’s’ qualities of honesty,
courtesy, or personal care. But would be impossible, in France for example,
to have a non-Christian, say an Hindu for instance, who is a non-elected
president or PM, to be the absolute ruler of the country behind the scenes,
superseding even the PM. There are many capable people in the Congress. Why
can’t a billion Indians find one of their own, who will understand the
complexity and subtlety of India to govern itself? Not only that, but her
very presence at the top has unleashed forces, visible and invisible, that
are detrimental to the country.

There is nothing wrong in espousing the best of the values of the West -
democracy, technological perfection, higher standards of living - but many
of the institutions are crumbling in the West: two out of three marriages
end in divorce, kids shoot each other, parents are not cared for in their
old age, depression is rampant and westerners are actually looking for
answers elsewhere, in India notably.

One does not understand this craze at the moment to westernize India at all
costs, while discarding its ancient values. Mrs Gandhi should do well to
remember that there still are 850 million Hindus in India, a billion
worldwide and that whatever good inputs were brought by different
invasions, it is the ancient values of the spirituality behind Hinduism,
which have made India so special and which gives her today her unique
qualities, making an Indian Christian different from an American Christian,
or an Indian Muslim different from a Saudi one.

The tragedy of India is that it was colonized for too long. And unlike
China, it always looks to the West for a solution to its problems. Sonia
Gandhi, whatever her qualities, is just an incarnation of that hangover, an
Empress of India in new clothes.


 

 Medicare fails to take flight for ex-IAF officer

Veterans India <vetera...@gmail.com> Jan 24 03:14AM -0800  

Rakesh Prasad Chaturvedi
12:30 PM (4 hours ago)
 
Dear Veteran Achuthan,
Reference your post in Veterans India
I feel there is an urgent need to clarify- in fact dispel- your
apprehension, perhaps shared by some others, that Officers, JCOs and OR are

different categories who get different treatment at ECHS Polyclinics.

This is NOT so.
Dealing with improvement of Pan India ECHS services voluntarily I can
state with emphasis that such differentiation does not exist. Officers have
as many and similar problems as JCO/ OR. There is widespread discontentment
with NA medicine, non Empanelment of hospitals and what has been discussed
in the mail below- being made to run around.........for referrals, for
tests etc. I am all but sure that a similar reaction would have emerged
even if the patient was Officer/ JCO. Sadly some OC Polyclinics lack
empathy.
I urge you to share this concept with others you come across who may be
attributing reasons where none exist, and feeling victimized. This trend of
class division has unfortunately been creeping in for past some recent
years, and I would not be surprised if it is maliciously being injected by
people opposed to Veteran interests. These efforts include insulting
terminologies like PBOR.
 
With Warm Regards,
Col RP Chaturvedi,
A-35, Sector 36,
Noida 201303.
Mob: +919891279035
 
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 Change of mailing address

kanaiyalal.sheth <kanaiya...@zyduscadila.com> Jan 24 09:25AM +0530  

Respected Sir ,
 
Sub : Change of mailing address
 
 
I would like to inform you that , I will be retiring from the present job on 31 Jan 2013 and there fore request you to change my present mailing address to below mentioned mailing address.
 
kanaiyal...@gmail.com<mailto:kanaiyal...@gmail.com>
 
Thanking you in anticipation
 
With warm RegardsÂ
 
Major K M Sheth ( Retd )
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 From The PCDA(O)

Veterans India <vetera...@gmail.com> Jan 23 07:11PM -0800  

Some info has been found missing in bank details received from some
of the veterans affected by Hon'ble SC Judgement dated 04/09/12.
Emails have been sent to these officers by PCDA (O). Veterans are
requested to check the INBOX/SPAM folder in their email id (mentioned
in bank details submitted to PCDA (O)). Letters have been sent by post
to the veterans, who didn't mention email id.


 

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