In the midst of heavy firing, Ved Prakash and his team bravely moved toward their destination. In a bid to obstruct the volunteers to take back the ammunition out of the enemy’s range, the Pakistani army continuously fired with mortar shells and heavy firearms. They safely crawled up to the place where the ammunition had been disposed of by the army. After receiving short-term emergency training from the army, he along with other volunteers set out for getting back the ammunition from the danger zone. Taking into account the sensitivity of the situation, Shri Ved Prakash Chadha, the chief organiser of the Kotli branch, voluntarily took up the responsibility to play a lead role in carrying out this challenging task. About twenty volunteers who were physically fit, strong and active were selected. So, it was decided to take the help of the courageous and nationalist swayam sewaks in accomplishing this risky task of procuring the ammunition. This was an impossible task, a game of do or die.Īs the army state garrison stationed in Kotli was already very less in number and was stationed at certain sensitive points, any move or shift from these points would have proved disastrous.
To bring the chests into the town was now a big concern otherwise it would have proved fatal for the state forces.
Unfortunately, that area was within the firing range of the enemy. Further, with the total disruption of the line of land communication and in order to reinforce the garrison with the urgently needed ammunition, the Indian Air Force fighters dropped twenty chests into the town but by mistake, the ammunition fell on a deep slope outside the town. The state garrison stationed at Kotli was completely besieged and had exhausted most of its stock of ammunition, ration, and medicines down to a dangerously low level. Within a few days, the enemy force established its pickets all around this town and opened heavy firing from all sides. On 25 November 1947, the Pakistani raiders invaded the town of Mirpur which further facilitated their advance toward Kotli. The beautiful and strategic town of Kotli, surrounded by hills on all sides, was one of the tehsil headquarters of district Mirpur. Institute and farmers participatory research programme has resulted into fruitful results of Malpura sheep improvement.Ved Prakash Chadha was a Swayam sewak volunteer in Kotli, where the branch of Swayam Sewak Sangha was established in 1941. Comparison between progenies born out of Farmers’ rams and superior rams distributed from institutional flocks have shown a considerable improvement in farmers’ flocks through distributed rams over a period. Under MSSP superior germplasm of Malpura is disseminated into breeding tract for the development of farmers flock. Seeing importance and high demand of Malpura germplasm, it has been included into Mega Sheep Seed Project funded by ICAR. Malpura being a native breed has been used in almost all the crossbreeding programs being run in the CSWRI to produce various crossbred for mutton, fine wool and carpet wool improvement like Avimaans, Avikalin, Bharat Merino, Awassi x Malpura crosses and Indian Karakul. The overall survivability (irrespective of age) of the flock in Malpura is more than 96 percent. We have achieved about 30 kg of body weight and more than 600 g First Greasy fleece yield per animal at 6 month of age at our farm. Malpura ram lambs are produced every year through selection and evaluation to distribute them among the farmers and other developmental agencies engaged in sheep development. Selective breeding in Malpura sheep is going on for its overall improvement. It is an important mutton type breed with coarse wool, found in Jaipur, Tonk and Sawai Madhopur districts of Rajasthan. Malpura, an indigenous sheep, is well adapted to harsh climatic conditions of semi-arid region.
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