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Comprising retired officers of the Army, Navy and Airf Force of the district of Palakkad, Kerala
Pooling together our diverse and rich experience during war and peace, lessons of endurance and prudence and rigorous military upbringing, we the members of the DSOI Palakkad have a vision and a dream for a better tommorow although we have given the best of our years at the service of the Nation.
Dream 1
WAR MEMORIAL
Capt Chittur Krishnan was awarded a Vir Chakra, posthumously, for his gallantry in the 1965 operations. As of now, his memory is confined to a neglected marble plague affixed in front of the waiting room on Platform No. 2 at Palakkad Junction Railway station.
We would like to commemorate the sacrifices of Capt Krishnan and others by constructing a befetting memorial column on which their names would be inscribed in letters of gold.
We would also like to organise a commemorative function every year so that the living may get inspiration from the sacrifices made by these legends.
Dream 2
EX SERVICEMEN FACILITIES COMPLEX (EFC)
Over 15,000 retired officers and PBOR and over 1,000 widows of ex-servicemen who had died in action, were dependent on the CSD canteens at Kochi/Kozhikode, both at a distance of 135 Kms from Palakkad, for their entitled canteen stores.
DSOI Palakkad, soon after its inception in 1994, took up the case for an ESM Canteen at Palakkad and was greatly rewarded when the costly and time-consuming trips to Kochi and Kozhikode was eliminated with the establishment of a Canteen at Palakkad in Feb 1997. This canteen is presemtly functioning in a rented building at Nurani with limited facilities. This needs to be shifted to a tailor made facility in the EFC.
Dream 3
ECHS
The retired officers and PBOR constitute a senior age-group in the society, when medical care and treatment become increasingly relevant and essential. The time and cost factors available in distant Kochi/Thiruvanthapuram/Cannanore, irrelevant to the soldiers/widows of Palakkad.
Even as the case for the establishment of a medical inspection room for ESM was accepted and a Palmgrove clinic was established next to the ESM Canteen, the ECHS Scheme was announced by the Central Government and Palakkad got the first of the policlinics under this scheme in 2004. Initially it was functional in a rented building in Chandranagar with very limited facilities.
Dream 4
ARAMGRAH
Palakkad being a border district, can boast of
To acter for the short stay of visitors to Palakkad we need facilities to include comfortably furnished rooms, a cafeteria, cyber-cafe and a recreation room with TV and an assortment of periodicals.
Dream 5
SENIOR CITIZEN HOME
Geriatric care is fast becoming an issue of serious concern with the managers of the society. The problem is acute because of employment oppurtunities in the state and emmigration of its young generation abroad, seeking greener pastures there.
We understand, that given these circumstances, there is a need for a Senior Citizens Home to be established in the EFC to cater for the needs of ex-service officers and PBOR or their widows in their old age when the companionship of like minded folks is a boon to sustain them in life.
Dream 6
COMMUNITY HALL
The EFC would be incomplete without a community hall wherein any functions involving the ESM community can be held. these functions may include organisational, cultural, social and educational programs that would n ot only help to sustain the bonhomie and camraderie of the old soldiers but also motivate the best among the younger generation to serve the country by opting for a career in the Armed Forces.