AFVOA Newletters of Year 2003

Page 130 of 170 ARMED FORCES VETERAN OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION CHENNAI (Established 1994) Patron: Lt Gen C Sundara Rao, PVSM, Tele: 2446 1085 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer AVM V Krishnaswamy, VSM Tele: 2234 4434 Capt (IN) H Balakrishnan Tele: 2491 0140 Cdr S R Prasad, Tele: 2536 4008 Lt Col M Narayanan, Tele: 2492 8546 No 5 of 2003 NEWSLETTER #05/2003 08 th Oct 2003 It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest ~ Greek Sayin g Dear Veteran, From the Editor’s Desk A week after the last Meeting, we had in our midst, Lt Gen Vijay Dua, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Director General, Discipline and Ceremonials and Welfare, who addressed the garrison members regarding the ECHS, which has come into force with effect from the 01 st April 2003. A gist of the talk, as well as all other material available on the new scheme has been covered in a separate special Newsletter, which hopefully all of you have already gone through. A number of officers have already enrolled themselves for the new Scheme. It will take a while before any new scheme is put into place – more so, when bureaucracy and procedures have to be satisfied. One should remember that one cannot always win in some situations as in the anecdote following: A woman walks into her boss’s office with this complaint: “All the other women in the office are suing you for sexual harassment. Since you haven’t sexually harassed me, I’m suing you for discrimination.” In India, September and the months thereafter are filled with many festivals and holidays, with one almost on the heels of another. Dusserha is over and a week after our Meeting, we have the Festival of Lights, on which we have carried an article which is a different strain.