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New Delhi: Days after their son received a posthumous Kirti Chakra, India\u2019s second-highest peacetime gallantry award, parents of Captain Anshuman Singh have called for changes in the Indian Army\u2019s \u2018next of kin\u2019 (NOK) policy, under which financial assistance is provided to family members in case of an army personnel\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Speaking to TV9 Bharatvarsh, Ravi Pratap Singh and Manju Singh, the late army officer\u2019s parents, put forward their appeal, saying that they want NOK rules to be \u2018revisited\u2019 as Smriti Singh, their daughter-in-law, receives most of the entitlements after Anshuman\u2019s death, but does not live with them any more.<\/p>\n
An on-duty Captain Anshuman Singh died in a fire incident in Siachen in July last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe criteria set for NOK is not correct. I have also spoken to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh regarding this. Anshuman\u2019s wife does not live with us now\u2026their marriage was only five months old and they have no child. Though we are the co-recipients of his Kirti Chakra, we only have our son\u2019s photo hanging on the wall with a garland on it,\u201d Ravi Pratap Singh told the news channel.<\/p>\n
\u201cHence, we want NOK\u2019s definition to be fixed. It should be decided that the martyr\u2019s wife must stay with his family, who now has much dependency,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Manju Singh, meanwhile, said that they are asking for changes in the policy as they do not want other parents like them to \u2018suffer.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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