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Horizon Group. Horizon Group is an ex-servicemen’s
endeavour founded by senior retired Indian Army Officers in 2002. The
Group comprises of an NGO and a Private Limited Company. These organisations are:
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Horizon, the first Indian NGO, committed to Post Conflict
Environment Management was founded in Sep 2001. The NGO was registered
as a Society on 16 Jan 2002 as per Society Registration rules 1860 and
formally registered as a charitable trust on 17 Aug 04 under the legal
provisions of Trusts Act 1950 prevalent in India ( Registration Number
is F 19513 / Pune) by the Charity Commissioner, Pune, India.HORIZON is
an NGO staffed primarily by ex-servicemen retired from the Indian Armed
Forces.
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Ex-servicemen Organization
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The idea of raising an organization for benefit of the mankind,
investing the knowledge and experience gained during the service had
been agitating the minds of few eminent retired officers. The
challenges posed by post-conflict environments all over the World
provided the desired platform. It was felt that it is in this milieu
that the potential of ex-servicemen could be fully realized. This
gave rise to founding of HORIZON as an Organisation for
Post-conflict Environ Management, with acronym , HORIZON (OPCEM).
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Committed to Humanitarian Cause
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Ex-servicemen gain vast experience in handling of mines during their
service. With this in view humanitarian demining presented an
appropriate area in which to develop core competence utilizing the
ex-servicemen potential.
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Expertise, Training and Resilience
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Though the task is replete with risks, it was felt that Indian soldier
with his dedication, experience, and resilience will be able to execute
demining task efficiently and generate lot of good will. In addition,
this would also give them opportunity to discover a second career, a
necessity for other ranks who retire at an early age, when the
opportunities apropos retirement are limited.
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