jojo Said..
Ex-Servicemen need to be rehabilitated in civil life after their release from the Services on account of their truncated career in the Armed Forces. About 55,000 service personnel are retired/released each year. Majority of ex-servicemen prefer to settle down near their home Ex-Servicemen Bazar
town after their release from the Services. Accordingly, resettlement and welfare of ex-Servicemen has been accepted as a joint responsibility of the central and state governments. Both the central and state governments have introduced a number of schemes for welfare of ex-servicemen, and to provide them rehabilitation through provision of reemployment in the organised sector or through self-employment. The benefits and concessions provided by the state governments to ex-servicemen and their dependants vary from state to state.
At the Centre, the Ex-Servicemen Welfare Wing of the Ministry of Defence is responsible for the formulation of the policy guidelines and schemes for resettlement of ex-Servicemen. The Director General of Resettlement (DGR), under the Ministry of Defence, is the nodal agency for overseeing execution and proper implementation of the Central schemes for ex-servicemen. DGR is also responsible for liaison with the state/UT government. In the states and Union Territories, the Departments of Sainik Welfare at the state level and Zila Sainik Welfare Officers at the district level are functioning to attend to the problems of ex-servicemen and to execute the rehabilitation and welfare schemes at state and district levels respectively.