India Losing Its Warriors to Suicide
While, in another incident in eastern Ladakh's Nyoma sector in May, a violent quarrel broke out between officers and jawans of the 226 Field Artillery Regiment, leaving the unit commanding officer, two majors and two jawans hospitalized with bruises, fractures, and other injuries.
These ugly face-offs between officers and jawans are a clear indicator of the declining discipline and standards of leadership in the Army. Jawans are retaliating to the humiliation by their officers, and the stressful working conditions in the force.
Further, 25,063 soldiers have also advanced on pre-mature retirement during the last three years. Antony said “However, reasons for seeking pre-mature retirement cannot be attributed to stressful working environment,'' as reported by TOI. He added that government had been continuously taking steps to decrease stress among soldiers after undertaking a number of studies.
But it’s time that instead of these slow steps, revamping existing mechanisms should be adopted in order to deal with stress and other problems faced by soldiers.
