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Early Times Report
Jammu, July 11 :Defence PRO, Jammu, Lt Col Manish Mehta is alleged to be working overtime from behind the curtain even when he is officially on leave tillJuly 12 next.
But his over enthusiasm Saturday created a piquant situation after his office released a press note, informing media that on Friday when IAF rescued BSF persons from one of their border outposts in Ramgarh sector of Samba, aviation unit of the Indian army also participated in the operation along with IAF.
Ironically, it took more than 24 hours for the office of Defence PRO to wake up from its deep slumber to give due credit to the role of the aviation wing of the Indian army.
Interestingly, on Friday when Lt Col Manish Mehta released a press note with complete details of rescue operation he had informed media only about the role of Indian Air Force under the leadership of Wing Commander Anup Sharma.
It appears Lt Col Manish Mehta who is currently on leave was not aware about the role of aviation wing of the Indian army and was left with no option but to issue a separate press note after IAF walked away accolades for launching a timely rescue operation. It could not be ascertained how and why the office of Defence PRO in Jammu failed to highlight the role of the Aviation wing of the Army in the rescue operation in Ramgarh Sector in its official press note on Friday itself.
The official mail released by Lt Col Mehta on Saturday claimed, " In a swift reaction to the situation and an urgent message from the BSF authorities, the Indian Army pressed into service two of its ALH Dhruv helicopters and ground columns along with an Mi-17 helicopter of IAF, based at Jammu, for the rescue mission.
The BSF personnel, along with heavy stores, were airlifted in a combined operation of Army Aviation and IAF and evacuated the BSF persons to safer places. One infantry company column was also kept standby for any further assistance in the effort throughout, the release issued by Defence PRO stated.
Interestingly, before Lt Col Manish Mehta went on leave on June 29, 2015 Directorate of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi had directed S N Acharya, Photographic Officer, Jammu, to officiate the duties of PRO, Jammu.
In contrast to this office order , which was circulated to all the media houses through official mail of Defence PRO, Jammu office on July 1, Lt Col Mehta is regularly updating media persons about the current events via official email and through his whatsApp account.
This has created lot of confusion among media persons as in some case he has been found contacting media persons to publish his name along with the news report while remaining on official leave.
When the office of Defence PRO Jammu was contacted, Early Times was told that Lt Col Mehta was on leave till July 12 and would resume the duties after leave period.
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