THE SELFLESS SACRIFICE OF THE INDIAN MILITARY

 One silver lining amidst this tragedy that has come to the fore is the committed and selfless service of the Indian army and the Para military force in alleviating the human suffering. Although humanitarian rescue and rehabilitation mission whenever tragedy strikes is no first time for the defense forces the handling of this extreme crisis undoubtedly is yet one more feather added to the cap of defense forces.Despite losing their own personnel in such operations defense personnel have always risked their lives to give the best to the nation. 

As citizens of this country if there is one establishment that we could be proud of it is undoubtedly the Indian Defence servicesThe personnel of this elite Indian establishment although drawn from the civil society are totally different in their approach. Anybody reading this would have experienced at some point of time some kind of a help from defense personnel. While selfless service is the hall mark of the military personnel in the civil society it is mostly selfish service, with political, bureaucratic and corporate establishments leading the way. There are no doubt exceptions but as a matter of fact they are few and far between.

The reasons for their conduct are not hard to seek here, yet certainly difficult and almost impossible to implement in the civil society.

The rigorous training program which conditions the defense personnel to even lay down their lives for the cause of the nation and to keep the nations interests uppermost is in sharp contrast to the political, beauracratic and corporate establishments .In these establishments selfishness, nepotism, parochialism, unhelpful attitude to fellow human beings, profit motive and not to mention corruption more often than not reigns supreme. It is literally a dog eat dog world out here. Strange comparisons, although both are drawn from the same civil society the only plausible explanation is the command structure in the military as also the training they receive vis a vis respect for the country men and country at large which makes all the difference.If during such humanitarian crisis had the military personnel thought like the political, beauracratic and corporate establishments what could have been the fate of this rescue and rehabilitation operation is anybody’s guess. Is it not time that other establishments learnt sacrifice and service from the Indian defense forces.It does make immense sense for Indian bureaucracy to be trained and conditioned once in a while by officers of Indian Military services with regard to sacrifice and service .If at all anything the outcome would not be anything worse than the existing system. When everything else has failed to motivate the Indian civil system this is an experiment worth trying !!!