IC 19750N Lt Col Bhasker Chandra Panda

Respected Brigadier Kamboj,
Your words in the mail below brought tears to my eyes, as you were able to see, like a father figure, the pain behind my words and having been compelled to write them, rather than the harshness in the face value of the words. Also, felt pain that senior Signallers like yourselves see yourselves as 'small fries'.

Anyways, the following is what I would request be published as my father's obituary:

IC 19750N Lt Col Bhasker Chandra Panda was commissioned into the Corps of Signals on 09 June 1968 and retired from the Army on 30th June 1996. He served in the Sugar Sector in the Western Command, 4 Corps in Eastern Command, Central Command Signals Regiment and in 19 Infantry Division Signals Regiment. He raised the Air Hq Air Formation Signals Company at New Delhi. He commanded 24 Wireless Experimental Unit in the Eastern Command, where he was able to achieve some major breakthrough. Thereafter he was seconded to DRDO Hyderabad, where he built up a communications network for DRDO from scratch. He thereafter served in Interim Test Range, Chandipur, Balasore in Orissa until retirement from Army in June 1996 and won appreciation from people like Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, (the then Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister) for his work contributing to communications for test launches of various missile programmes. After retirement from the Army, he worked 8 years in ITR as a Scientist and retired from there in 2004. A sincere worker and gentleman, equally polite and caring to his seniors as well as his subordinates, he always put the well being of his subordinates as his first priority, above and beyond that of his own and his family and was consistently courageous to speak out for and stand by his men. He always held that there is something to learn from every new experience.
Col Panda passed away on 06 July 2009 at Air Force Hospital Bangalore. He is survived by his wife Mrs Gita Rani Panda and son Satyabrat Panda. May his soul rest in peace.

Next of kin:
Mrs Gita Rani Panda
I shall be grateful for your help to get this published in the Signalman of which my father was a life member. Also, would you have contact details like email ids / phone numbers of the SO-in-C and the Commandant MCTE? Grateful if you could please share these if you have these.

Thanks so much
Satyabrat Panda