Sorry I dont have the link or source but it was forwarded by a friend. Please read about a man who truely deserves a 21 gun salute.
Kanchan
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Friends, I did not have the privilege of meeting or knowing Capt Sengupta.I was forwarded this Citation of his life. It reads as good as a Param Vir Chakra citation, except he lived his whole life that way. I cannot but bid him Farewell and Salute Him. David31st Aug 2013, Goodbye, Capt.Sengupta - our Jojo Capt.JK Sengupta was one of the founding trustees of Vidya Valley School. We will miss him very much. Our family called him Jojo. His friends from NDA and IMA called him Chotu or Shorty. On the Honour Rolls of NDA and the IMA he is Jayanta Kumar Sengupta. For us at Vidya Valley he was the one who gave us our name. "Call the school Vidya Valley", he said. And it was perfect. It could not have been better. Through his sightless eyes he saw the place in perfect colour - verdant green surrounded by undulating hills on three sides. In his vision he saw the perfect school. In distant Siliguri he set up the Prerana School for very severely handicapped children. He was also the pillar of the North Bengal Council for the Disabled which he founded in 1990. He strove to make all these institutions perfect, just as he had always tried to do with his own life. Today Jojo breathed his last, after a ten month battle with cancer. It was a hard battle and ugly to see. Till the end his mind remained sharp and alert. We are certain that he is watching over us. We will have to strive for perfection because Jojo will not accept anything else. Jojo schooled at RIMC - the Rashtriya Indian Military College at Dehradun. He excelled in everything on the playing fields and in the class-rooms. As a young school boy he became a legend. It was inevitable that he would join the NDA. Of course he excelled and walked away with the Gold Medal of the 22nd course in 1962. On to IMA at Dehradun. Once again Jojo walked away with the top award - The Sword of Honour. Already at 21 years Jojo was a rarity. A soldier with his intelligence and spirit and ability is born but rarely. But more was to come. Jojo opted to join the 16th Light Cavalry - an armoured brigade headquartered at Ahmednagar. It is the oldest armoured regiment of the Indian Army. As a young officer he received the Silver Centurion award. Everyone believed that he destined to be one of the great Generals of the Army. But fate had other plans. In the 1965 war he lost both eyes. He was just 22 - strong and vibrant and brilliant. For anyone else that would have been the end. For Jojo it was a new beginning. After four years in hospitals he was back as a civilian - ready to battle life. He proved once a soldier always a soldier and that despite the unexpected turns of destiny, the bigger ‘Battle of Life’ can still be won! Jojo's perfect record, his humility, his wit and humour attracted people like a magnet. Friends of fifty years ago remain friends even today. So many others who have met him are unable to explain what attracts everyone to Jojo. Most probably it was his genuineness. I could go on and on writing of Jojo. But let me end this with an unemotional, no nonsense account of his life and achievement as I found on the internet - a tribute from an army colleague. DETAILS ABOUT CAPTAIN RETD. J. K. SENGUPTA 1. Name in English (in BLOCK Capital letters) CAPT. (RETD.) JAYANTA KUMAR SENGUPTA 4. Nature and degree of Disability (Attach Disability Certificate) Profound Visual Impairment 5. Indicate percentage of disability and since when 100% since 1965 consequent to injury during active operations in Indo-Pakistan War. 6. Date of birth 17.10.1942 7. Educational qualifications Bachelor of Arts, North Bengal University (Gold medalist). Obtained Degree post disability. 31st Regular Course of Indian Military Academy , Dehradun (Gold Medal) 22nd Course ‘D’ Sqn, National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune (Gold Medal) Brief details about Capt. J. K. Sengupta A gold medalist at all three institutions, he was commissioned into the 16th Light Cavalry, the oldest armoured regiment of the Indian Army, in the year 1962. The Indo-Pak War broke out in Sep 1965 and young 2/Lt Sengupta joined his Regiment in a fierce battle with the Pakistani Army in the Sialkot sector. Hardy and brave, the young tank troop leader had taken a well concealed position in the sugarcane fields, standing out of the cupola to observe the enemy clearly with binoculars and accompanied by a gunner officer he was bringing down devastating artillery fire on the enemy. Suddenly an armour piercing shot from the enemy’s tank hit the front of the turret of his tank. The splinters penetrated his eyes, fractured his upper arm and ripped up his face. 9. Brief details/particulars of the achievements made which may be considered original and exemplar for persons with disabilities Consequent to his discharge from the Army as a result of his Battle injury, Capt Sengupta set up and successfully managed his own business an LPG dealership of Indian Oil in Siliguri, W.B. as well as a distributorship of Tata Oil Mills. He has won the best distributor award from Indian Oil on several occasions. His business now provides employment to more than 40 people in Siliguri. Having overcome the challenges imposed by his disability, Capt Sengupta wanted to reach out to other persons with disabilities. Aspiring to change the quality of life of underprivileged persons with disabilities in North Bengal , he founded the North Bengal Council for the Disabled in the year of 1990 along with few like minded people. Under his leadership, in 1998, NBCD established the Prerana Educational Centre, a cross disability rehabilitation cum training institute now catering to the educational needs of more than 145 children with various types of disabilities. In the same year, a Community Based Rehabilitation project was also initiated for persons with disabilities across 700 villages in North Bengal . With Capt. Sengupta’s initiative, NBCD has been appointed as the State Nodal Agency Partner of National Trust during the year 2008 and entrusted with the responsibility of promoting the policies and programs of National Trust across the region. As a result of Capt. Sengupta’s efforts, National Trust granted NBCD the “Project Capable” a pilot project to enable disabled people to form Self Help Groups to earn a livelihood through micro credit and enterprise as well as to collectively advocate for their rights. Through Capt. Sengupta’s vision, commitment, passion and leadership, NBCD which began as a small organization, has been able to achieve the above milestones. NBCD now reaches out to more than 3000 persons with disabilities in North Bengal . --------------- THE END -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PSU Absorbees" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to psu-absorbees+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to psu-absorb...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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