It was 50 years back, I was a college student,
appeared
B.Sc final examination of the University of Calcutta, an NCC Cadet of Army Wing. We
few active NCC Cadets of Kolkata formed an NGO for persuasion of adventure. We were manning 7x24 hrs our civil
Defence Casualty service. We planned our first rock climbing training program
at Sushunia Hill, Bankura district when the war was declared. We were mentally
disturbed about our rock climbing training program. All India Radio was main source of our information apart from
daily newspapers. We heard the cease-fire declaration. I was spending some time
at the Indian Red Cross Society (West Bengal), Disaster Training Institute at Gokul Boral Street of Central Kolkata. It
was a two-storied building, one day I found plasma was stacked on the ground
floor without any temperature control system in an open space. This was relief material
received from foreign countries.
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| Surrender ceremony of Pakistani Army at Dhaka on 16th December 1971 |
We had our first Rock Climbing Course as per schedule.
We had invited General Officer Commanding of Bengal Area, Major General
Pemenshu Chowdury, PVSM, to be our Guest
in Chief of distribution of certificates
to the trainees of this course. He accepted
our request and program was held at BNR ( South Eastern Railway) Tent of
Kolkata Maidan.
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| Vijaya Diwas Memorial service held at Kolkata on 16th December 2016 (.From Lt to Rt) Lt General Parveen Bakshi, AVSM, VSM, ADC, GOC-in-C, EC, Vice Admiral Harish Bisht, FOC-in-C, ENC & Air Marshal C Hari Kumar, VM, VSM,, AOC -in-C EAC |
