Sepoy Bikash Senchuwa was ready with all his navy belongings on January 6, 2005, after receiving a switch letter to a different location from Dibrugarh, Assam.
Coincidentally, Main Mukesh Chaurasia took him alongside for an operation the place a villager had obtained an extortion observe from the ULFA, stating that two militants would come for ransom. Whereas they went in civilian apparel to counter the insurgency, they had been attacked and killed by the militants.
His and plenty of different such tales had been shared through the inaugural occasion of India’s first Satark Heroes Park, devoted to 40 martyred troopers of the Navy Intelligence Corps at Wanowrie, Pune on Saturday.
The park was constructed and developed by Roadway Options India Infrastructure Restricted in collaboration with the Navy Intelligence Coaching College and Depot (MINTSD). It includes a Wall of Valour, showcasing busts of 40 martyred troopers from 1962 to 2020, and features a cemented platform inscribed with the Navy Intelligence Corps Geet.
Standing in entrance of Senchuwa’s bust, Ganesh Mandal Chaurasia (83), a retired railway official from Munger district in Bihar, launched the story of his son, Main Mukesh Chaurasia, who was posted within the Jap Command Liaison Unit in Assam. Each Chaurasia and his junior, Senchuwa, had been posted in the identical unit and died in 2005.
Meera Chaurasia, a gazetted principal in a Bihar faculty, recalled her son’s early enthusiasm for the Military. “He already knew what he needed to do and began making ready for the Military whereas he was nonetheless at school. Main grew to become gis nickname when he cleared the NDA examination after the age of 17,” she stated.
Related feelings had been echoed by Madhu Tirupathi, son of Captain Veluswamy Tirupathi, who was posted in Nagaland. Though Madhu was simply seven-years-old when he misplaced his father, he recalled that earlier than transferring to Nagaland, his father had obtained a switch order to Pune. “He cancelled the order and selected to remain within the area in Nagaland as a result of he didn’t wish to work in an workplace,” stated Madhu.
Pointing to the bust of havildar Kuriyan V T, Madhu stated, “They had been ‘buddies’ who all the time went on ambush operations collectively. However in April 2003, they went alone on a mission…After two days, their our bodies had been discovered mutilated. I returned residence from faculty to discover a crowd gathered at my home.”
Tirupathi and Kuriyan had been serving in Nagaland for the Inside Safety Group beneath Operation Orchid. They sacrificed their lives throughout an assault by Naga militants and had been posthumously awarded the Sena Medal for his or her bravery.
Sunita Mehta, spouse of Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta, was voluntarily working alongside her husband in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2008 when he made the final word sacrifice. Brigadier Mehta was killed in a suicide bombing on the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008, whereas serving as India’s Defence Attaché. “Kabul was a really disturbed space, and terrorists attacked their automobile…When the automobile reached the embassy gate, he took the total influence himself. If the explosive-laden automobile had entered the compound, your complete embassy would have been destroyed,” she stated.
Sunita, a volunteer at Kabul College, was serving with the Authorities of India’s permission. Brigadier Mehta had served within the Military for 32 years and had been in Kabul for 5 months when the assault occurred. He was posthumously awarded the Kirti Chakra, the nation’s second-highest peacetime gallantry award. He’s survived by his spouse, son Udit Mehta (an IAF officer), and daughter Bhavya Mehta.
In one other row of busts stood Leena Bajaj, sporting an Indian Military uniform, honoring her husband, Captain Jitesh Bhutani, who was killed throughout an anti-insurgency operation on November 15, 2003, in Shopian, close to Srinagar. “I really feel like I’m an extension of him,” stated Bajaj, who now serves within the Indian Military’s Bombay Engineering Group (BEG) as an schooling officer. Earlier than becoming a member of the Military in 2005, Bajaj was a school member at Allahabad College. She married Bhutani in 2002.
Bajaj recalled how Colonel Arvind Thakur, Bhutani’s commanding officer, inspired her to hitch the Indian Military as an schooling officer. “He stated that quite than serving within the civilian sector as an educationist, try to be within the Indian Military and serve there,” she stated.
Among the many martyrs, subedar Rakesh Kumar was one of the crucial latest, having sacrificed his life throughout Covid-19 pandemic on October 14, 2020, whereas serving with HQ 39 Mountain Division, Northern Command, throughout Operation Snow Leopard in Ladakh. He had served within the Indian Military for 26 years. His daughter, Palak Kumar, who lately cleared the NEET examination, credited her success to her father’s encouragement and optimistic outlook in direction of life. “My father was all the time optimistic and dealt with all the pieces with a optimistic perspective,” she stated.
Palak’s mom Suman shared that they’re from Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh. “It had been eight months since he had been posted there, and we had been ready for him to return residence as a result of pandemic.”
The occasion was inaugurated by Ameet Gadhoke, MD of Roadway Options India Infrastructure Ltd., and Lieutenant Normal PK Chahal, Commandant of MINTSD.
