Home Minister Naini Narsimha Reddy has announced that the Chief Minister had enhanced the financial assistance for war widows of those, who had lost their husbands in the World War-II, from Rs.3,000 to Rs. 6,000 a month.
At a meeting organised to mark the Armed Forces Flag Day-2015 here on Monday, he also announced that a six-member committee with the Director-General of Police as the Chairman, Home Secretary as Vice-Chairman and Director-Sainik Welfare, as Secretary, was formed.
The committee would look into the welfare aspects of ex-servicemen and their families, he said, appealing to people to donate generously for the cause.
Contribution towards ex-servicemen fund
m,enInterestingly, the Director-Sainik Welfare Colonel P. Ramesh Kumar said that non-gazetted officers and gazetted officers, who used to contribute Rs.20 and Rs.50, respectively, earlier, had now agreed to contribute Rs.100 and Rs.200 from now on, to the cause of ex-servicemen.
Among those present at the function organised to mark the day, included MLC M.S. Prabhakar, Director-General of Police Anurag Sharma, Home Secretary Anita Rajendra and former Minister Captain V. Lakshmikantha Rao .
A newly-formed six-member committee will look into the welfare aspects of
ex-servicemen and their families
