BSF Jawan's Viral Video-"Look at what we eat"

I am astonished to see the food given ... a burnt Parantha...a glass of tea.... This is the kind of food given to a BSF jawanl  who guards our Borders  from external invasions... pity. Any how, the Home minister ordered an inquiry. I sincerely hope the condition pertaining to food given to our Jawans

I have been seeing that video on FB for the past few days. It is indeed a pity to see the BSF jawans being treated so abominably. The poor guys are caught in a grind between the harsh and worst imaginable working conditions and the bureacracy and red tapism at all levels. Why isn't BSF taken under the wings of the Ministry of Defense so they do not have to endure such pitiable treatment?

These Jawans, sentinels of the borders will be on duty for 11 hours in the snow and at times they have to stand through out After the HM;s inquiry, i hope things will be OK

MG Singh wrote:I have seen this video.  Having served in armed forces and closely interacted with BSD,  I can say the video is fake.  This jawan  deserves a pithu  parade and nothing else.  People must know that mess is managed  by Jawans  cooks.  Totally false video. 

That is exactly what I thought too when I first saw the video. But then I thought that a jawan won't post such a video unless there was truth in it, but now I know. Incidentally, can you throw light on how he managed to post the video in the first place? As far as I know, the jawans are discouraged from using social network sites, so how did he do it?

Cant seem to decide which version to believe. To think that the jawan would create a fake video to share on FB when he is positioned at the LOC seems unlikely and so is the other side of the story as being reported by the people at better positions. 

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

I have been seeing that video on FB for the past few days. It is indeed a pity to see the BSF jawans being treated so abominably. The poor guys are caught in a grind between the harsh and worst imaginable working conditions and the bureacracy and red tapism at all levels. Why isn't BSF taken under the wings of the Ministry of Defense so they do not have to endure such pitiable treatment?

There is corruption in army also but such things like bad food to jawans do not happen. The reported bad. The state of affairs in a particular BSF unit is also most likely an isolated event. Hope corrective action will be taken. It is not feasible to allocate all organizations to defence ministry. Even Border Road organizations (GREF) is in Ministry of transport.  The organizations like BSF and ITBF are in home ministry. Army is intended more for fighting during war. Safeguarding borders is with ITBP,  BSF  and the sea border with Coast Guard.  There is more need to eliminate irregularities and corruption.   

Before this video, CAG also pointed out about the quality of the food supplied to BSF forces.

http://www.bhaskar.com/news/NAT-NAN-bsf-jawan-viral-video-tej-bahadur-yadav-news-hindi-5502349-PHO.html?ref=ht

My father who served in the army u til the late sixties would always tell me that food was never compromised on. He in fact said that they had a ration of two eggs , half liter milk and plenty of other food including fruits at meal time,..This video is definitely a fake may be circulated with some ulterior motives

Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

I have been seeing that video on FB for the past few days. It is indeed a pity to see the BSF jawans being treated so abominably. The poor guys are caught in a grind between the harsh and worst imaginable working conditions and the bureacracy and red tapism at all levels. Why isn't BSF taken under the wings of the Ministry of Defense so they do not have to endure such pitiable treatment?

There is corruption in army also but such things like bad food to jawans do not happen. The reported bad. The state of affairs in a particular BSF unit is also most likely an isolated event. Hope corrective action will be taken. It is not feasible to allocate all organizations to defence ministry. Even Border Road organizations (GREF) is in Ministry of transport.  The organizations like BSF and ITBF are in home ministry. Army is intended more for fighting during war. Safeguarding borders is with ITBP,  BSF  and the sea border with Coast Guard.  There is more need to eliminate irregularities and corruption.   

Oh Okay, thanks for clarifying the affiliations of different paramilitary forces. I think this video can not be fake but could very well be an isolated case as you suggest. Nevertheless, be it the army or any of the other paramilitary organizations, the fact is that all of them work in harsh, inhospitable conditions and need to be fed well. If this is due to corruption, then proper investigations must be undertaken and the problem should be resolved before further morale of the jawans go down.

I hope what MG Singh said is true that it is a fake video. If that is not true they it might be one of the isolated cases as mentioned by Gulshanji.

In both cases, it is shameful. Even if it is an isolated case then also such thing should not happen and immediate corrective measure should be taken.

 if it is fake, it is shameful that someone is trying to defame armed forces

Here is the clarification by the BSF Authorities. Tej Bahadur Yadav.  the said Jawan was a  habitual  offender of  absenteeism without permission, chronic alcoholism and bad behaviour  with seniors

http://www.thehindu.com/videos/article17022365.ece

@ Usha, men in uniform are debarred from using social media,  but probably this man uploaded it quietly. He will now be punished and most likely dismissed from service with a RI term as well. Discipline has to be maintained.

BSF  Authorites already clarified because of  the said Jawan's indiscipline. See the link I gave above

I was quite surprised to read about bad quality food being served to the jawans. My parents had been working in the paramilitary force and I have never heard about such cases . As Usha has already mentioned good food are always served to the jawans. In fact if food are not available locally, the ration are brought from nearby places. 

I have spent few years in different army camps and eating at army messes. I was astonished to see the quality of food served to them. Maybe it's one of those stray incidents which this man has over painted. However, there is no doubt that corruption is spread in all sections of our society including military and paramilitary. 

suni51 wrote:

I have spent few years in different army camps and eating at army messes. I was astonished to see the quality of food served to them. Maybe it's one of those stray incidents which this man has over painted. However, there is no doubt that corruption is spread in all sections of our society including military and paramilitary. 

I agree with you, the food given to army persons is not as good what the BSF is mentioning. The corrupt officers grab the good quality food and sell in the market at lower rates, and supply low quality food to soldiers.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bsfs-srinagar-neighbours-say-they-buy-fuel-food-from-officers-for-half/articleshow/56465324.cms

Tej bBahadur Yadav is a highly undisciplined Jawan in the BSF.. Because he was transferred to the border, out of anger on his Authorities he has spread the rumor on the YOU TUBE

BSF  spokes man already clarified that the food quality is good.

Manoj Kumar Lamba wrote:

suni51 wrote:

I have spent few years in different army camps and eating at army messes. I was astonished to see the quality of food served to them. Maybe it's one of those stray incidents which this man has over painted. However, there is no doubt that corruption is spread in all sections of our society including military and paramilitary. 

I agree with you, the food given to army persons is not as good what the BSF is mentioning. The corrupt officers grab the good quality food and sell in the market at lower rates, and supply low quality food to soldiers.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bsfs-srinagar-neighbours-say-they-buy-fuel-food-from-officers-for-half/articleshow/56465324.cms

 

Sorry, but I wanted to say that food provided to army personal is better than available at 3 star hotels with very good menu. I was astonished to see the quality of food provided to army officers but maybe the personal at para military mess is not all that good or this was a stray incident. 

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

MG Singh wrote:I have seen this video.  Having served in armed forces and closely interacted with BSD,  I can say the video is fake.  This jawan  deserves a pithu  parade and nothing else.  People must know that mess is managed  by Jawans  cooks.  Totally false video. 

That is exactly what I thought too when I first saw the video. But then I thought that a jawan won't post such a video unless there was truth in it, but now I know. Incidentally, can you throw light on how he managed to post the video in the first place? As far as I know, the jawans are discouraged from using social network sites, so how did he do it?

I myself eat some time in army mess, but quality of food was never so poor which is shown in this video. It is also right army also have corrupt people.