Guwahati: Colonel Naba Kumar Sarma, one of the 17 who died in the Pawan Hans chopper crash in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, was posted as Administrative Commandant at the Indian Army’s Station HQ at Tawang. He had only 10 days left to retire from service.
Sarma, a product of Sainik School, Goalpara, was commissioned in 1978 and belonged to the 19 Garhwal Rifles.
“Colonel Sarma had bought a plot of land just outside Narangi cantonment in Guwahati and had shifted his family to his own house only recently so that he could retire on April 30 and come back here,” Lt Col S Phogat, Defence PRO in Guwahati, said. Col Sarma hailed from Assam.
(A PTI report from Itanagar said the passengers who were killed have been identified as Anita, Rishi (minor), Anupam Baruah, Dr Tandon, Dr Asif, R Asif, Zahira, Z Asif, Asif (minor), Abhijit Sharma, A K Saraogi, N Bothra, Col Sarma and T Mustafa. Three crew members who also died in the crash are Captain A K Tiwari, Dixit and maintenance crew Kulkarni. Those who survived the crash include Captain Barun Gupta and passengers Randiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Dorjee Wangdi, Wrishi Bothra, Rajendra Pal and Karishma Saraogi.)
20/04/11 Samudra Gupta Kashyap/Indian Express
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