Daijiworld Media Network – Beltangady (MS)

Beltangady, Jun 14: “When my son went to America, my close relatives said that I have lost one son. But I told them that he is going to come back to native place after education. However, when he took up job in USA, I was concerned. Now we all are happy and proud of my son,” said Ganapati Bhat, father of Satwika Kulaverma of Beltangady, who has earned the rank of lieutenant in the Indian Army.

Satwika, who completed his engineering in Arizona University and took up a job, returned to India two and a half years ago with the ambition of joining the Indian army. He studied at home and attended the examination and tasted success in the second attempt.

As he completed his training, passing out parade was held on June 11 at Dehradun and Satwika is appointed in signal regiment of Jammu. After completing two weeks of orientation training at Jabalpur, he will join the service.

Satwika completed his primary education in a church school of Beltangady and St Theresa School. Later, he pursued PUC in SDM College and degree in Bengaluru and went to USA for higher studies.

He says, “I was fascinated by Indian Army at a very young age. However, I had to work in USA to pay back the loan taken to complete my education. Once I cleared the loan, I came back to India and prepared myself for the examination. I trained myself physically around the surroundings of my house. I got selected in the technical graduation course 133.”

Satwika says that many in South India are interested to join Indian army but do not try to get more information. This situation needs to be changed, he said.