The Ministry of Defence today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Doordarshan to produce programmes of various genres on different facets of Ex-Servicemen’s lives. <br/><br/>The programmes will also include the role played by them in nation building and the efforts being made by the Government for their welfare and resettlement over the years. <br/><br/>Television viewers across the country will now be able to experience the real life stories of the veterans and the contributions made by them in nation-building. The infotainment programmes will also project the resettlement and various welfare measures of the government.<br/><br/>Our correspomdent reports,there are nearly 27 lakhs Ex-Servicemen including over five lakh widows. This figure swells by an average of about 50,000 ex-servicemen who are released from the Armed Forces every year. <br/><br/>The Directorate General of Resettlement (DGR), an Inter-Services Organisation under the Ministry of Defence, runs various resettlement and welfare schemes for the benefit of the vast ESM workforce in the country. Over 50 thousand Ex-Servicemen were gainfully re-employed by the DGR last year alone.