Ease leave norms to curb suicides in Army: A K
Antony
(Defence minister AK Antony )
New Delhi: Directing the armed forces
to step up measures to reduce suicides, fratricides and officer-jawan face-offs
in their ranks, defence minister A K Antony on
Thursday said the military needs to institutionalize a more liberal grant of
leave mechanism for soldiers.
The minister asked the Army, Navy and IAF to ensure
"very prompt responses" to soldiers' leave applications, while
holding that the defence ministry would ask railways to ensure seats for
military personnel going home.
Chairing a top-level meeting attended by
the three service vice-chiefs, defence secretary and other officials, the
minister said he would again request chief ministers and Union Territory
Lt-Governors to make their civil district administrations more responsive to
grievances of soldiers and their families.
Antony also asked the Defence Institute
of Psychological Research to conduct a separate study on the stress-levels
among officers, like the ones already done for jawans, as well as recommend
“comprehensive steps” to tackle suicides, fragging (to kill or wound a fellow
soldier) and other such cases.
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