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| Troops receive accolades for work in Leh flood disaster | | | For yet another cause and for yet another activity the Indian troops have won the accolades.These troops have received deep appreciation from the Government,from the Defence Minister,and from the people of not only Ladakh but of the entire country.These accolades have been showered on the Army not for maintaining round the clock vigil on the Indo-Pak border and Sino-India border in the Ladakh region.These Army jawans and officers have received appreciation for coming to the rescue of several thousand civilians who were plagued by cloudburst and floods in parts of Leh.More tan 200 people were killed and scores of others,including soldiers,remained missing and it is believed that majority of those soldiers who have been missing during the last over one month may have been carried by the river tides to Pakistan occupied Kashmir.Nice on the part of the pakistani authorities that some of the bodies of the Indian soldiers were handedover to the Indian authorities.Despite this loss the troops remained undaunted and unfazed whie carrying out relief and rescue operations and took in hand several measures that led to the temporary rehabilitation of those who had lost their houses and household goods.The Army must have spent several crores of rupees on relief,rescue and rehabilitation of the flood victims in Leh.The troops were the first to restore road links,especially the one linking Leh with Srinagar.Once this life-line was repaired and thrown open for traffic the much needed relief material started pouring into Leh.Official reports indicate that had not the troops moved in there would have been more casualities in Leh and the frontier district would have remained cut off from rest of the country for a long time.Hence the Army deserves the credit of emerging as a saviour of thousands of people.When the Defence Minister,A.K.Antony,visited Leh he was told that even after scores of jawans were buried under mud during the unprecedented cloudburst troops fanned to various areas in Leh to pull civilians out of the debris of the flattened houses and huts.It was not an easy affair.The jawans had no time to weep and wail over the death of their colleagues in the cloudburst and instead of indulging in breast beating the troops carried out rescue and relief opreations on a massive scale.And these very troops who have won accolades for the work they did in flood hit Leh may have received brickbats had they initiated firm measures against the activities if militants or against those indulging in violence in Kashmir.It is not for the first time that the troops have been summoned to provide succour to the civilians during earthquakes,floods and other man-made and natural calamities.Those who are critical of the presence of Army in Kashmir need to think of the massive earthquake that rattled parts of the border areas in the Jammu and Kashmir state in 2005.Even after some of the Army posts and pickets were buried because of the severe tremors the troops moved like a team of engineers and doctors for providing succour to the tremor affected people.It was becuse of the measures that were taken in hand by the Army that rescue,relief and rehabilitation work had been carried out on a massive scale.Right from 1947 when the first battalion of the Indian troops was flown to Kashmir that the Army has been providing major help to the people during peace and during wartime.Its operation Sadbhavana,in force in the state during the last over eight years,has been instrumental in the construction of scores of school buildings,dispensaries and micro hydel power projects besides road network in the remote rural and border areas.Hence stop denigrating the Army.Let Geelani and others count the number of services troops have provided in Jammu and Kashmir.If they do it they won't keep on roaring against the Army.
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