Friday, July 29, 2011

TERRITORIAL ARMY

 Alike USA &UK India also have volunteer part time ARMY called TERRITORIAL ARMY many MP MLA Celebrities, are TA officers many civil GOVT officers from various DEPT \ORG are serving on part time basis in TA in the national interest & IMPORTANCE of security.

INTRODUCTION:
TERRITORIAL ARMY was constituted by an Act called Territorial army Act 1948 Officers in the TERRITORIAL ARMY are holding commission , granted by the president of INDIA with designation of Rank corresponding to those of Indian commissioned officers of the regular Army.

ROLE /DUTY/CONCEPT/OF TERRITORIAL ARMY
It is a second line of defense after the Regular INDIAN ARMY

The Member of the Territorial Army are subject to INDIAN ARMY ACT 1950 governed by the same GOI,,DEFENSE SERVICE REGULATION, regulations for the ARMY PENSION REGULATIONS 1961 etc as applicable to the corresponding personnel’s of the India Army.

As per Government Order dated 30.10.1987 which clarified that all the members of Territorial Army will be entitled to same benefits as made applicable to Indian Army and this matter has been further clarified by the Government Order dated 03.02.1998. Accordingly Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench at, New Delhi Order dated 19.02.2010 granted late entrant pension to the TERRITORIAL Army Officer vides Army pension regulation applicable to Territorial Army equally to their counterparts in Regular Army as per DG E&T ministry of labor & EMPLOYMENT.


Service Manual Part 1

Normally two types of personnel are employed in the Territorial Army, those employed on a part-time basis, and those employed on a full-time basis on the permanent establishment. Obviously, persons falling in the first category and discharged from the Territorial Army should not be considered as Ex-Servicemen. As regards persons of the second category, most of them are either Ex-Servicemen or ex-officers of the Armed Forces reemployed and as such, they continue to be Ex-Servicemen on discharge form the Territorial Army.

There may be a few who are not Ex-Servicemen but employed on the permanent staff. These persons who are engaged on the permanent staff for a limited number of years should be considered as Discharged Central Government Employees 11.38 Persons engaged on the permanent staff of the Territorial Army service for varying periods, and on discharge some of them revert to part-time employment in the Territorial Army itself. This part time employment only means a period of training, the duration of which may range from 30 to 60 days in a year. Persons who serve on the Permanent staff for a period of Six months or more and who on discharge revert to part-time employment in the Territorial Army are to be considered as Discharged Central Government Employees.

The term Part time volunteer force is subjective, depending on what is considered similar to a Military Force, and what status a Force is considered to have. The nature of TASK therefore varies greatly according to the speaker and the context. 11.39 During the Emergency, Territorial Army units were called up for full-time service and Territorial Army personnel were embodied for service in these units. These personnel on disembodiment have reverted to part-time service for long periods.

Though, they were not in the permanent establishment of the Territorial Army, they should be considered as Discharged Central Government Employees, provided they were employed on a full-time basis against regular establishment for a continuous period of six months or more. 11.40 Considering the useful training and experience acquired during the service with the Territorial Army NESM/ Part.I/ Vol.I 75 the, Employment Officers should make special efforts to place ex-Territorial Army Personnel in suitable alternative employment.

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