"Dream, Dream, Dream! Conduct these dreams into thoughts, and then transform them into action."
- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
17 Jan 2018
An entire Indian Territorial Army (TA) unit has pledged to donate their organs, thus promising to help their countrymen even after their death.
The TA 123 Infantry Battalion, which was raised on November 1, 1956, by Lt Col Zorawar Singh, is a voluntary unit of the Indian Territorial Army that is affiliated to the Grenadiers Regiment of the Indian Army. Its members pledged to donate their organs, thus giving a boost to organ donation.
The organ donation applications of the unit have been submitted to the Armed Forces Organ, Retrieval & Transplant Auth (AORTA), Army Hospital (R&R), in New Delhi.