{"id":27511,"date":"2018-04-10T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=27511"},"modified":"2018-04-10T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:20:19","slug":"sitharaman-helps-mother-of-deceased-soldier-get-pensionary-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sitharaman-helps-mother-of-deceased-soldier-get-pensionary-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitharaman helps mother of \u2018deceased\u2019 soldier get pensionary benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nKamla Devi, mother of rifleman Rinku Ram who went missing while patrolling along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh in 2009, finally won her battle of more than seven years as the Defence Ministry approved special family pension and ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to her.<\/p>\n<p>Devi had approached the Armed Forces Tribunal at Chandigarh seeking pension of her son but was told that it would be released only after his body was found, said officials.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2009, Rinku Ram of JAK Rifles had fallen into a raging river while patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) along China border in Arunachal Pradesh. His body was never found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is hereby informed that Special Family Pension for Smt Kamla Devi has been granted with effect from 19\/11\/2009. Ex-gratia lump sum of Rs 10 lakh has also been sanctioned to Smt Kamla Devi,\u201d Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>She said the case was brought to her notice on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Kamla Devi had approached the Armed Forces Tribunal to get her son\u2019s pension, but was told that it would be released only after the body was found.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Kamla Devi, mother of rifleman Rinku Ram who went missing while patrolling along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh in 2009, finally won her battle of more than seven years as the Defence Ministry approved special family pension and ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to her. Devi had approached the Armed Forces Tribunal at [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27513,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27511\/revisions\/27513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}