Mysuru, Dec. 9- City-based VeKare Ex-Servicemen Trust (VKET) has urged Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to take immediate steps to ensure disability pension and other facilities under Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) to Gentlemen Officer Cadets invalidated and sent home due to injuries suffered during military training at National Defence Academy, Indian Military Academy, Officers Training Academy, Air Force Academy and Naval Academy.
VKET President Mandetira N. Subramani, in a letter dated Dec. 1, 2021, has sought that the Officer Cadets should be granted a minimum pension on par with ex-recruits (who do not belong to the rank of officers) after they are invalidated / medically boarded out due to injuries suffered during training. He stated that even ex-recruits were not covered under the definition of ex-servicemen and hence they were not eligible for medical care under ECHS and CSD canteen facilities until their organisation VKET took up the cudgels on behalf of ex-recruits way back in the year 1990.
