This July, it will be seven years since Col. V. Vasanth was martyred while fighting militants in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir in 2007. For Subhashini, the wife of the Colonel from Bangalore, it has been a long fight for justice and what she calls her entitlement.
Around six-and-a-half years ago, the State government promised her land. “The Government Order specified that I would be allotted either two acres of wet land, four acres of rain-fed land or eight acres of dry land. No efforts were made to identify the land. I identified land in Devanahalli long ago and I have plans for it, which I cannot reveal now. I have written to and corresponded with several people but nothing has happened so far,” she said. Stating that she will keep trying, she said, “I am not fighting for this as a need. It is an entitlement that is due to me.”
PTI reports from New Delhi:The Defence Ministry on Thursday said it had asked the State government to provide expeditious assistance to Col. Vasanth’s wife. “The Union government has taken cognisance of the issue of allotment of land by the State government to the wife of Col. Vasanth, an Ashok Chakra Award winner (posthumous) for exceptional gallantry. The Ex-Servicemen’s Welfare Department has taken up the issue with the State,” a Defence Ministry release said.
