Joginder War Memorial Inaugurated At Bum La, Arunachal Pradesh – Free PDF

Q) Which of these mountain pass doesn’t belong to Arunachal Pradesh?

1. Jelep La Pass
2. Sela Pass
3. Bomdi La Pass
4. Dihang Pass

• Memorial to 1962 Sino-India War hero Subedar Joginder Singh unveiled at Bum La

• Often referred to as Baba by India Army personnel, Subedar Joginder Singh from the First Battalion of the Sikh Regiment, was conferred the highest gallantry award, PARAM VIR CHAKRA (PVC) in the Eastern Theatre because of the supreme sacrifice he had made in the Sino- India War on 1962.
• A war memorial has been constructed after Baba Joginder Singh at Bum La on the frontier where the brave soldier of Indian Army had laid down his life fighting against the invading People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China.
• Indian Army organised the Inauguration Ceremony of Joginder War Memorial at Bum La on Friday (October 23) coinciding with the day on which the Battle of Tongpen La (Bum La) took place in 1962.
• Smt Kulwant Kaur, daughter of Subedar Joginder Singh, inaugurated the War Memorial

• Subedar Joginder Singh was born on September 26, 1921, at Mahalakalan in Moga district of Punjab, Singh joined the British Indian Army in 1936 and served in the 1st battalion of the Sikh Regiment.
• He had halted and repulsed the invading Chinese army, twice at Tongpen La in Bum La axis when the enemy was heading to conquer Tawang on October 23, 1962.
• The Chinese suddenly attacked the Namka Chu post. Very soon after the attack, the Chinese army proceeded to Tawang, through the Bum-la axis. The Tawang post was strategically very important to the north-east frontier.

• To defend it, Subedar Singh had to proceed with an inadequate and small platoon of 20 men under him in Sikh Regiment.
• They studied the terrain, building bunkers and trenches in a combined strategic network, braving the physically-numbing cold without any special resource or winter gear.
• Singh did not order fire until the opponents came on clear range; he risked the distance to save the little ammunition they had as opposed to the high quality of weaponry and destructive mortars. He successfully managed to destroy the first wave attack, although half his people were already dead for the purpose, and he himself got shot in the thigh.
• Dangerously outnumbered and outresourced, Singh chose sure death defending the IB ridge, unwilling to give Tawang’s access to the Chinese, over the evacuation prospect.
• He was taken as a prisoner of war where he died in Chinese captivity.

• Shri Joginder Singh’s statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi

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