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Hooda doles out incentives to soldiers

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Ex-servicemen and dependents also to benefit from largesse, says Haryana Chief Minister

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday announced a bonanza of incentives for serving soldiers, ex-servicemen and their dependents, which included sales tax exemption to parents of deceased unmarried service officials and widows of service officers on items purchased from CSD canteens, setting up of defence colonies, allotment of land for setting up of polyclinics and setting up of Defence Services Officers' Institute (DSOI).

Mr. Hooda was addressing a press conference along with Daljeet Singh, GOC-in-C, Western Command, after a Civil-Military Liaison Conference at the Command headquarters in Chandi Mandir near here.

He said that defence colonies would be developed in Rohtak, Jind, Rewari and Jhajjar districts and other places by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) which had reserved 10 per cent of the plots for ex-servicemen in the group housing societies. It had been decided to allot two acres of land at concessional rate to set up the DSOI at Faridabad.

Mr. Hooda said land to set up polyclinics had been allotted at Rewari, Jind, Kurukshetra, Fatehabad, Sonepat and Faridabad.

He also announced plans to set up war memorials at all district headquarters. He had written to the Union Defence Minister about setting up a military school at Matanhale. The State Government had also urged the Army authorities to open more CSD canteens at Meham, Gohana, Bahadurgarh, Tosham, Kanina and Palwal.

The Chief Minister said Haryana had also liberally enhanced financial aid and pension to gallantry award winners before and after the Independence and their widows. The scholarship for the children of the ex-servicemen had also been doubled and various schemes had been launched for providing assistance for the marriage of daughters of the widows of various categories. Many other welfare schemes ranging from assistance for building of houses to up-gradation of Sainik School, Kunjpura and establishing rest houses at Rohtak and Rewari had been taken up.

Lt. Gen. Daljeet Singh was all praise for the support and cooperation being offered by the State Government to the defence personnel.

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