40 Years After Retirement, IAF Man Donates Rs 1 Crore To Defence Ministry. CBR Prasad served in the IAF for around nine years before he left it.
New Delhi : A 74-year-old CBR Prasad, a retired airman who has donated almost entire savings of his life to the Ministry of Defence.
“After 9 years I left the Indian Air Force (IAF) because the Indian Railways offered me a good job. Unfortunately, I did not get that job. I started a small poultry farm for my livelihood. Fortunately, I did well,” he told ANI.
“After fulfilling my family responsibilities, I thought I should give back to the defence whatever I got from there. I decided to give Rs 1.08 crore to the defence forces,” added Mr Prasad.
He met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday and handed over the cheque to him.
Mr Prasad started poultry farming and worked hard for 30 years. With the aim of helping society, he has also set up a sports university.
Mr Prasad served in the IAF for around nine years before he left it.
Asked if his family approved the idea, the retired air-warrior says, “Absolutely, no problem. I have given my daughter 2 per cent of my property and one per cent to my wife. Rest 97 per cent, I am giving back to the society.”
Despite donating his entire life saving, he tries to underplay it.
“Rajnath Singh was happy to see that such a small sepoy was giving his entire savings back to the defence,” he says.
So, how did he get the idea to donate his savings to the Defence Ministry? It is a big story, he says.
“When I was 20 years, and I was working in the Air Force, my officers called one gentleman GD Naidu from Coimbatore as a Chief Guest. He said that India was a great country because our sages thought that we should give back to our society, once our family responsibility is over,” he said.
“You should not take back anything because you did not get anything while coming. Give that minimum needed to your family and the rest to the society and rest of the life work for the society,” he added.
Recalling his days of struggle, he says: “I left home with Rs 5 in my pocket and earned 500-acre land with my bare hard work. I have given 5-acre to my wife and 10-acre to my daughter and rest everything, I am utilising for the society,” adds the retired IAF man.
Mr Prasad says that once he dreamt of winning an Olympic medal but could not do so. So now, he was training kids.
“I established one sports university like campus in about 50 acres of land. In another 50 acres of land, I am building another sports university. My ambition is to build two sports universities — one for boys and one for girls. As a child, I had the ambition to win Olympic medal but I could not. So, for the last 20 years, I have been training children,” he adds
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पूर्व एयरमैन CBR प्रसाद जी ने रक्षा मंत्री जी को 01 करोड़ रुपये देकर भारतीय सेना के जवानों के त्याग एवं बलिदान की परंपरा को नई उचाई प्रदान किया है । जवान अब तक अपनी जान देकर देश की रक्षा करते रहे है अब पैसे भी रक्षा मंत्रालय की दे रहे है । अब रक्षा मंत्री की ये जिम्मेदारी है कि इस फण्ड का दुरपयोग सेना एवम रक्षा मंत्रालय के अधिकारी न कर पाए जैसा कि वे अन्य फण्ड की करते है । श्री प्रसाद जी का कदम अधिकारियों को आइना भी दिखाता जो जवानो को अधिकारों को हड़पते और जवानों के कंधों पर बन्दूक रखकर अपने आर्थिक एवं अन्य हितों की पूर्ति करते है । एक रैंक एक पेंशन में इन्होंने ऐसे ही किया । अपनी पेंशन उतनी बढ़ा गए जितनी हवलदार रैंक तक की सैनिकों की पेंशन भी नही है । हर जगह भेद भाव करते है और सिक्योरिटी एजेंसी , कोको पेट्रोल पंप एवं कोल् लोडिंग एवम ट्रांस्पोटसन एजेंसी का लाइसेंस अपने लिए नियमविरुद्ध आरक्षित कर रखा है । इनकी मांगो की लम्बी फ़ेहरिस्त सरकार के पास है और कितना भी दे दो इनका पेट नही भरता और भ्रष्टाचार के गन्दी नाली में डूबे हुए है । कैंटीन ही या ECHS हर जगह ये जवानो का शोषण एवं भेद भाव करते है ।
अधिकारी काफी पैसे वाले है । लेक़िन श्री प्रासाद जी जैसा दिल नही है इनके पास नही है ।
मैं अपील करता हु इन अधिकारियों से कृपया एक रैंक एक पेंशन केवल जवान /JCO को लेने दे क्योकि ऑफिसर को देने में काफी बजट खर्च होता है जिसका खामियाजा जवानो की विधवा एवम जवान /jco उठातें है । वैसे भी अफसर 60 साल तक नौकरी करते और OROP के हक़दार नही है ।श्री प्रसाद जी जैसे दिल दिखाए और जवान jco के साथ सामाजिक एवं आर्थिक भेद भाव खत्म कर ।
श्री प्रसाद जी को कोटि कोटि नमन ।
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