This story is from June 20, 2020

Telangana announces Rs 5 crore ex gratia, job & plot for Colonel Santosh Babu’s family

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday announced ex gratia of Rs 5 crore, a residential plot and a government job of Group I cadre to the kin of Col Santosh Babu, who laid down his life fighting the Chinese army in Galwan Valley along the India-China border
Telangana announces Rs 5 crore ex gratia, job & plot for Colonel Santosh Babu’s family
Indian army officers walk past the funeral pyre of their colleague Colonel B Santosh Babu
HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday announced ex gratia of Rs 5 crore, a residential plot and a government job of Group I cadre to the kin of Col Santosh Babu, who laid down his life fighting the Chinese army in Galwan Valley along the India-China border.
KCR also said 19 other martyred army personnel’s families would be given Rs 10 lakh each.
Chandrasekhar Rao said he would personally meet the family of Col Santosh Babu who hails from Suryapet soon and hand over the benefits from the government.
For other army personnel,benefits would be extended through union defence minister.
The chief minister said the entire country would stand with the families of the martyred. “State governments should extend support to the families apart from the Centre’s assistance. This gives the families of army personnel confidence. Though the state and country were facing financial crisis due to coronavirus, it is time to support families by reducing other expenses,” the CM said during the video-conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
During the all party meeting through video-conference with Prime Minister, the CM suggested the Centre should pursue long-term and short-term strategies to counter China.
The chief minister also made it clear that on this issue, the state government would stand by the central government. KCR said that what we require now is Ran Neethi (war strategy) not Raj Neethi (political strategy/politicisation).
The chief minister felt that China had became jealous of the stable and strong governance in the country and its economic prosperity due to which they started the clash.
“China and Pakistan have the habit of creating trouble and conflict when they have problems internally. China has a lot of internal problems now. China is also picking up confrontation with countries in along South China Sea coast like Japan, Malaysia and Philippines,” the chief minister said.
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