AFVOA Newsletters of Year 2012

Page 27 of 80 be clubbed along with children`s tuition fees with deduction capped at Rs 50,000 under the DTC. Hence, if you now have an expensive life policy and are claiming deductions under the larger limit of Rs 1 lakh, this may not be possible under the proposed DTC. That is not all. Not the entire premium you pay on your life policy may enjoy deduction under the proposed new code. The policy you have chosen must provide a life cover that is at least 20 times the annual premium you pay (that means the premium must not be over 5% of the sum assured as life cover). For instance, if you pay an annual premium of Rs 10,000, then to avail deduction, the life cover on this policy should not be less than Rs 2,00,000. A Soldier’s Wife I just happened to see this on face book originally posted by a Pakistani army officer’s wife; I thought I’d share this with you all. Editor I wear no uniforms but I am in the Army because I am his wife. I'm in the ranks that are rarely seen, I have no rank upon my shoulders. Salutes I do not give. But the military world is the place where live. I'm not in the chain of command, Orders I do not get. But my husband is the one who does, this I cannot forget. I'm not the one who fires the weapon, who puts my life on the line. But my job is just as tough. I'm the one who's left behind. My husband is a patriot, a brave and prideful man. And the call to serve his country not all can understand. Behind the lines I see the things needed to keep this country free. My husband makes the sacrifice, but so do our kids and me. I love the man I married. Soldiering in his life. But I stand among the silent ranks known as the Army Wife. “Jo Tum Hi Sanam Hum Se Bezaar Hoga, To Jeena Hamey Apna Dushwaar Hoga”. -Mir Taqi Mir TALES OF HONOUR AND UNIFORM. Many a times we wonder how some magnificent efforts by a few of our Colleagues had gone un-noticed and consigned to the forgotten pages of the History of our Regiments. 1984- Prelude The year was marked by the Operation Blue Star, launched by the Indian Army, to flush out the Sikh Terrorists from the Golden Temple, Amritsar. This episode pertains to an Artillery Regiment, which did not take part in the operation as such, but was sucked into the whirlwind of the Religious trauma the Sikh Soldiers of our Army faced, at that time. In the first week of June 1984, the Unit, which has a troop composition of “Sikhs”, was in Binaguri, for the Field Firing Exercises, prior to its Annual Practice Camp. From the 3 rd June onwards, the Unit was receiving news reports over the Radio & TV about the Army entering the Golden Temple and desecrating the same. The rumour was planted within the unit that the Akal Takht was destroyed and all the Sikh Troops around the country have mutinied and were heading for Amritsar . There was some semblance of truth in the rumour, because a message was received from Ramgarh, in Bihar, where the