By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
New Delhi: Indian Railways honors India’s heroes by giving their jobs a chance to earn decent living. Families of people who have laid down their lives for the cause of nation are being Railways jobs. The Ministry of Railways has offered job to Jamil Alam, grandson of Abdul Hameed, one of the heroes in the 1965 Indo-Pak war. Hawaldar Abdul Hameed was posthumously awarded India’s highest wartime gallantry award, the Param Vir Chakra for his defiant valour in that war.
Jamil Alam was given the appointment letter in a function here by the Railways Minister Lalu Prasasd. He is appointed for the post of Electric Signal Maintainer (ESM), a Group ‘C’ post in Northern Railways. Also present on the occasion were the Union Minister for Corporate Affairs, Shr Prem Chand Gupta, the widow of Abdul Hameed. Rasoolan Bi.
The Railways have earlier also helped the family when it gave job to Juned Alam, son of Abdul Hameed, six years ago. The spirit of the assistance is to boost the morale of our brave army men so as to assure them that their families will ever be looked after by the nation.
Last month, the Ministry of Railways had offered jobs to two unemployed daughters of under privileged Vinayak Rao Tope, the descendents of Tantya Tope, the hero of India’s first war of independence (1857). The Minister said that Railways will continue to extend all possible assistance to similar noble cause.