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| Army Chief plays down age row, terms it an issue of integrity | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Jan 13 : The Chief of Army Staff, General V. K. Singh, has termed the ongoing controversy concerning his date of birth to be a personal issue, and said that it held great degree of integrity and honour for him. "The issue has always been and I am emphasising this, has always been that of integrity and honour and some of you who are in possession of all kinds of papers and letters and top secret files, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, are aware of what I have written from time to time that the issue is of integrity and honour, right from the time this came up or rather came to the forefront," General Singh told the media here on Thursday. General V.K. Singh had earlier on Tuesday disassociated himself with the reports of fresh representations by him concerning his date of birth. Reports in the media had indicated that General V.K. Singh had written to the Government that his date of birth was May 10, 1951 and not 1950 as entered on the basis of his application when he entered the National Defence Academy. The Defence Ministry had not accepted his earlier representation and the reports last week suggested that General V.K. Singh might approach the Courts for rectification. According to certain reports, the controversy stemmed from different sets of records in the adjutant general and military secretary branches of the Indian Army Headquarters. While the adjutant general's branch that deals with pay, perks and pensions maintains 1951 as his year of birth, the military secretary branch that deals with appointments and promotions has 1950 in its records. The Ministry of Defence had earlier rejected Army Chief General V. K. Singh's statutory complaint seeking a correction of his date of birth in the army records. According to reports, General Singh has been conveyed that that he will have to retire from service on May 31, 2012 on completion of his two-year tenure. General Singh, who has consistently claimed that he was born in 1951 and not 1950 as maintained, had in his statutory complaint asked the Defence Ministry to consider May 10, 1951 as his date of birth. The Army Chief had earlier filed the statutory complaint with Defence Minister A. K. Antony after the government issued an order on July 21 in which it said that it will consider May 10, 1950 as his date of birth. |
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