This story is from November 14, 2020

Set up rest house for war widows in Patna: Ex-Army officers

The Bihar Ex-servicemen Association (BESA) is hopeful that the next NDA government in the state will take initiative to set up a rest house for war widows in the state capital.
Set up rest house for war widows in Patna: Ex-Army officers
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PATNA: The Bihar Ex-servicemen Association (BESA) is hopeful that the next NDA government in the state will take initiative to set up a rest house for war widows in the state capital.
“Rest houses have been set up for martyrs’ widows and their dependents in states like Punjab, Delhi and Maharashtra. In Bihar, war widows who come to Patna for different paper works have no place to stay,” BESA president Col (retd) V K Singh said.
Singh said there are about 10,065 widows of the army men in Bihar as per the data available with the army headquarters in Danapur.
“Of 10,065 army men’s widows in Bihar, at least 156 have been given the status of ‘veer naris’. The number of ex-servicemen is about 9,295 in Patna district alone,” he said.
According to Singh, of 50,000 soldiers presently deployed in Ladakh, 5,000 are from Bihar regiment performing their duty at a height of 15,000 feet in zero degree temperature. He praised the move of the Telangana government to grant an ex gratia of Rs 5 crore to the Galwan Valley martyr of the 16th Bihar Regiment battalion Col Santosh Babu.
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