Ex-servicemen show up demands at HPCC assemble
The members of the ex-servicemen cell of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) dwelled upon the problems being faced by them in their day-to-day lives at a meeting held at Bhiwani, a release said on Saturday.
The meeting was attended by several ex-servicemen. The participants bemoaned that their long-pending demand for one rank one pension part was still unsolved, the release said.
Some ex-servicemen from remote rural interiors sought a mobile canteen to visit their areas while others sought supply of medicines and exemption of toll tax on their vehicles even there was also a notification of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in this context.
Several ex-servicemen highlighted their demand that those retiring at young age should be adjusted in the para-military forces.
Maj Nirpender Singh Sangwan, chairman of the ex-servicemen cell, said he would take up all these demands the state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Former legislator Sangwan said Hooda had uplifted the living conditions of ex-servicemen after the Congress government came to power in 2005.
He said local MP Shruti Chondhary looked into the problems faced by ex-servicemen of the district on a regular basis.
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com
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