Have You Ever Wondered About Disabled Cadets, They Need our Support and Attention.

The soldiers who are serving a nation on a border are playing a major role to safeguard us. To become a part of the great Indian Armed Forces, you have to pass through the tough training and learning. The cadets come from the various parts of the nation. In India, we have a lot of academies for military training. 

The IMA (Indian Military Academy),  NDA (National Defense Academy), OTA (Officers Training Academy), AFA (Air Force Academy) are the well known to us.

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But, whenever a cadet from these academies gets seriously injured and become a disabled cadet, then a cadet has to leave the academy because he/she is not medically fit anymore. Also, they do not even get any medical help or disability pension and not even a criteria of ex-officer, ex-serviceman or ex-army personnel from the government.

So, these cadets have to live their life on their on with a support of ventilator, wheel chair or on a bed. Most commonly, the cadets belongs to the middle class families. Also, if these type of incident happens then these families have to bear the medical expenses of their son/daughter. 

HEROES OF THE NATION | THEY NEED OUR SUPPORT AND ATTENTION 

Well, there are 350 cadets who are suffering from the rejection because of the disability. 

1) Anunya Chaturvedi (Ex-NCC Cadet | Joined OTA in 2009)

In 2009, she suffered from a serious injury. Also, she has had surgery on her neck for 3 times.  

2) Vikrant (Passed out from the Rashtriya Indian Military College)

He joined NDA 137 course. Also, he was the 4th generation army officer in training in his family. He was a very good looking guy, with mentally and physically strong personality. In October, he participated in a boxing championship where he got serious injury. After 15 days he went to his normal life. 

Aftermath, in a football tournament he got injured in a same place where he was previously injured in a boxing match. 

After, it took him 4 months in coma and was unable to identify his mother for 5 months. After surviving through the mental, financial and physical trauma, he learnt to walk back.

But, afterall he is not physically fit, he had to leave the academy.

3) Chetan Chaudhry (Brilliant Cadet of OTA | Son of a soldier)

During a training period in OTA, he met to an accident in which his brain dislocated. 

4) Kartik Sharma (Topper of Sainik School, Selected in NDA in a very 1st Attempt)

During a training phase, he suffered from the spinal cord injury. After this, he has to live on a wheel chair on a permanent basis.

5) Shubham Gupta (Joined NDA at the age of 19 years) 

Shubham also suffered from a spine injury in which he is now on a wheel chair. 

From the year 1985, there are 350 Cadets who got injured and had to leave the dream of becoming a soldier. 

OPINION 

The disabled cadets must get the necessary facilities and financial support for their entire life from the Government of India. The Ministry of Defense should work on this matter. The cadets must be provided a badge of ex-service personnel as they were went through the tough physical and mental training phase.

In India, we have a law which promises to give pension, medical treatment and a moral support from the Government of India to the officers who are being injured on duty. But for the Officer Cadets there is no such laws to ensure a life for the disabled cadets. 

As per the government reports, the disabled cadets are not getting these facilities and treatments because they are not on duty or an on duty officer.

As a citizen, we request to the government to provide these disabled cadets a financial as well as moral support. So that can reduce the economic pressure from their families.

A HOPE FOR A HELP!

Mr. Ankur Chaturvedi is an ex-cadet who got rejected because of the injury. Later on, he hardworked and is now a successful personality.

He has been trying for so long for these disabled cadets that they may get some relief from the government.

Mrs. Neetu Chandra Srivastava is the 1st bollywood celebrity who came forward to help the disabled cadets and said that they must get a second chance in their life.