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Dear Members of the Corps of Signals fratenity,
With grief we are posting details of our colleagues who leave for their heavenly abode. We request members to forward their "shradhanjali". Kindly share with us the photographs, fond memories and association.
We await tributes from associates/ course mates for publication.
Blog Team

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    • Wednesday, May 19, 2010

    IC-19750N Lt Col B C PANDA

    Dear Sir,
    I would like to inform you about my father's demise on 06 July 2009 at Air Force Command Hospital, Bangalore. You might wonder why I am mailing about this so late. Fact is, I tripped onto your blogsite purely by accident, while trying to get the mail ids of the MCTE Commandant / and or the SO-in-C, to no avail. After all, it isn't just by mistake that the Corps of Signals is considered the comms / network/internet providing 'arm' of the army.
    Here are the facts I would like to be highlighted on your site.
    1) Had informed Signals directorate on 20th July 2009 about my father's death and assumed this would mean the info would be passed on to the MCTE guys for publication in the Signalman. Underestimated the bureaucratic mentality of India. After two editions of the magazine which have come out since July 2009, am yet to see my father's name listed in the obits.
    2) Tried calling the MCTE landline numbers listed on some site, could not get through to either for days.
    3) Called up some extn in AHQ, and spoke to a colonel who said he was an aide to the SO-in-C. This chap, typically, told me the gen was busy, blah blah, and he would ensure the information gets updated by MCTE on the next issue of Signalman. He also said, on my request, that the gen would call me back. (Not so far, it is been 45 days since my call).
    It is shameful that this arm of the army which supposedly looks after comms in the 21st century, does not have email ids available for people to reach them. It is a good example to children of Indian Army officers (like me), which tells them how the Army values people who contribute the prime of their lives and take on so many hardships for the army and the country. (I say this because my father was actually a honest, hard working, result achieving officer, not one of the staff- college educated, golf playing, bullshit talking asses).
    Grateful if you could please provide me some contact in the Signals directorate/ mcte who shall help ensure my father's obituary is published in the next version of Signalman.
    Thanks,
    Satyabrat Panda
    (Son of Col BC Panda)
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