Ex-servicemen plea to Governor

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, NOV. 27. A joint action committee of ex-servicemen submitted a memorandum to the Governor, Dr. C. Rangarajan, on Tuesday urging him to ensure allocation of military quarters to them.

A six-member committee, led by Mr. Rajendra Prasad, secretary- general of the JAC, said that the military quarters had been constructed with deductions from salaries of servicemen then on the land donated by the Nizam. The present occupants had been staying in the quarters for more than 50 years. There were now efforts to evict them and move them to some other premises, which was an injustice, the memorandum said.

The memorandum said the present Government had constituted a Petitions' Committee in 1996-97, headed by Mr. N. Mohd. Farooq, the then Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, which recommended that the present occupants of the quarters need not be evicted and instead the quarters be given to them on hire purchase basis.

Hence, permanent allotment of the quarters be made to them, they pleaded.

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