Having denied them their due for over one and a half
years, the President will finally honour 15 ITBP men, who perished along
with five IAF personnel in a chopper crash while conducting a rescue
operation during the 2013 Uttarakhand floods, with gallantry medals on
Republic Day.
The 15 ITBP personnel, of whom nine were deputed with National Disaster Response Force, had died in a chopper crash when they were returning from a rescue operation in Kedarnath on June 25, 2013. On January 26, 2014, the five IAF men who died along with them were given gallantry medals by the President, but the ITBP men were ignored.
Since recommendations are made by respective ministries for the medals, it was revealed that unlike Ministry of Defence, Home Ministry was not in favour recommending ITBP men for gallantry medals. The reasons cited were plain bureaucratic: that their deaths did not fit the parameters set by the home ministry for gallantry medals. It was decided instead to give them PM's Life Saving Medal. However, that too never came the personnel's way. The development had been seen as discriminatory affected the moral of the force.
The apathetic anomaly seems to have been corrected by the ministry under the new regime. The 15 men will now get Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) posthumously.
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The 15 ITBP personnel, of whom nine were deputed with National Disaster Response Force, had died in a chopper crash when they were returning from a rescue operation in Kedarnath on June 25, 2013. On January 26, 2014, the five IAF men who died along with them were given gallantry medals by the President, but the ITBP men were ignored.
Since recommendations are made by respective ministries for the medals, it was revealed that unlike Ministry of Defence, Home Ministry was not in favour recommending ITBP men for gallantry medals. The reasons cited were plain bureaucratic: that their deaths did not fit the parameters set by the home ministry for gallantry medals. It was decided instead to give them PM's Life Saving Medal. However, that too never came the personnel's way. The development had been seen as discriminatory affected the moral of the force.
The apathetic anomaly seems to have been corrected by the ministry under the new regime. The 15 men will now get Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) posthumously.
More here
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