General Upendra Dwivedi, COAS honoured four Veterans with the ‘Veteran Achievers Award’ at Chennai, for their selfless service beyond uniform towards welfare of ex-servicemen, Veer Naris, youth empowerment and nation building.
Colonel Krishnaswami A (Retd) is the founder of ‘Armed Forces Veteran Officers Association’ in Chennai and has been actively involved in interacting with various agencies for welfare of ex-servicemen of all the three services.
Captain Tamil Selvan D (Retd), has been actively involved in field of General Surgery & Urology in state government medical services & Military Hospital, Chennai for treatment of patients and guiding young specialist at Military Hospital during advanced procedures.
Subedar Major & Hony Lieutenant S Sugumar (Retd) has helped more than 2000 ex-servicemen and widows in receiving their claims valuing more than Rs 50 crore. He also gives voluntary services at ECHS Polyclinic, Madurai.
Havildar A Rajendran (Retd) has established ‘Seyon Educational and Charitable Trust’ and provides free of cost training to local youth for entrance into Army, CAPF and Police to include provision of free accommodation.
(Inputs from ADGPI)
