With moist eyes, Ravishankar, a former local body councillor, and his wife Kamalavalli received the honours for their timely noble act from the NCC authorities here on Sunday.
The applause that the couple received from the gathering for having donated the eyes of their late son R. Yogesh, an ex-NCC Junior Division cadet, while being honoured by the Group Commander, NCC Group Tiruchi Colonel B.N. Chetan, truly exemplified the recognition for their humaneness.
Their timely act executed through a service organisation that could create vision for two persons came in for supreme appreciation at the function organised by the NCC Group authorities here on Sunday, to felicitate NCC cadets of Tiruchi Group who had taken part in various all-India camps.
Yogesh, a ninth standard student of E.R. Higher Secondary School, Tiruchi, was killed in a road accident while riding a bicycle near here last year. He was in the Junior Division NCC, attached to the 2 TN Armoured Squadron NCC, Tiruchi, for two years.
The 2 TN Armoured Squadron NCC, Tiruchi has now instituted a medal in memory of Yogesh to be given for all round "Best Cadet" in the Senior Division and Junior Division categories of the Unit from this year onwards, said its Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Raman Thapar.
The recipient of the medal in the Senior Division category will be Cadet Justin Adaikalaraj, of St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchi, who took part in the Republic Day Camp 2010 at New Delhi and shortlisted for the Youth Exchange Programme this year.
Cadet S. Jayaprakash of E.R. Higher Secondary School, Tiruchi, who was a silver medallist in the "Best Cadet" category in the Inter Groups Competition held last year, has been chosen for the medal in the Junior Division category. The medals in memory of Yogesh will be presented to the cadets shortly, said Lt. Col. Thapar.
