Why does the Indian army takes special interest in the gahmar village
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Gahmar is home for 4,500 families who share a 12 square kilometer area. But that is not its only claim to fame. The village in Ghazipur district, on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states, prides itself as the “home of the soldiers”.
“Every second household in Gahmar has a military connect. Some have as many as six members serving the nation in over three generations,” Sriniwas Upadhyay, a retired junior officer or Subedar told Asia Times.
Upadhyay was a former mining specialist for the Army who was part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force sent to Sri Lanka in 1987 by the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to help the island nation, which was then embroiled in a civil war.
Locals claim that over 5,000 men from Gahmar currently served in the military and paramilitary forces. The village also has an equal number of retired soldiers.