The work & worth of a soldier is incomparable with those of any civilian soldier.The services of defence personnel cannot be measusred in terms of money & any thing paid to them is less for the risk they take & the sacrifices they make.They are on duty 24 hours leaving their families & staking their lives unlike the civilian employees who have limited working hours spending their leisure times with their families with almost zero risk.One will only be exposing his ignorance-rather foolishness when he queries that a soldier has no work when there is no war & prove white elephants during the rest of time forgetting that their services are always gainfully utilised for serving their fellow citizens in the most unexpected events of natural calmities like floods,earth quakes,outburst of dreadful epidemics & for dealing with situations of civil disturbances.It is fact that Sixth Pay Commission has not recommended any thing worth while for improvement in the pay structure of the defence people & recently,this was also taken up by a top official of the forces.If every one of the country wants to lead a civil life with peace & families side by,who are to defend our country & let the country men sleep with peace?The motivation for choosing the defence services as career is dipping mainly due to inadequate pay structures when all others are almost getting them periodically with geometric revisions.The protector of the country needs to be given all incentives in our own interest.
