Ex-services body fumes over delay in OROP, blames bureaucracy
Bhubaneswar, May 12:
The Odisha unit of the Indian Ex-Services League today blamed the bureaucracy for non-implementation of the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to all the defence personnel despite the UPA government’s announcement to this effect.Indian Army
“All these days, the soldiers have been waiting for the formal orders to originate from the government, but to their dismay, it is learnt that the bureaucracy of this country does not appear to be favourably disposed to honour this commitment. The CGDA, PCDA and DESW have now started carrying out their own interpretation of the definition itself of the OROP, which falls far below the intended pension benefits to the defence personnel,” said general secretary of the Odisha unit Bidyadhar Nayak in a press release.
He said that there is a clear cut definition of OROP which has always been used in all discussions as well as in correspondence including the Report of the Committee of Secretaries on OROP ordered by the government in June 2009.
“OROP implies that uniform pension be paid to the Armed Forces personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service, irrespective of their date of retirement, and any future enhancement in the rates of pension to be automatically passed on to the past pensioners. This implies bridging the gap between the rate of pension of the current pensioners and the past pensioners, and also future enhancements in the rate of pension, to be automatically passed on to the past pensioners,” read the minutes of the meeting chaired by the Defence Minister in February this year.
Nayak said interpreting the definition of OROP in any other way would constitute an act serious manipulation by the bureaucracy. It not only amounts to the blatant disobedience of the government order but also amounts to betrayal of the soldiers.
This attitude of the bureaucracy of denying the soldiers their rightful demand is highly deplored by the defence fraternity, he added.
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any one who tries to lower morale army is the BIGGEST ENEMY of nation,, a traitor trying to weaken the fighting capabilities of FORCES,, to-day serving is to-marrow retired, SUPREME COURT SHOULD come forward & punish the babus who are always trying to lower morale of forces
OROP IS STARAIGHT & SIMPLE BUT BABUS ARE CREATING ROAD BLOCK HERE ALSO,
THEY have created road blocks in rank pay case , CAT case 1/1//2006, 0 % DA merger case ,NFU STATUS & many court cases passed in favour but BABUS ARE not implementing.
The Defence Personnel have suffered thrice over[THREE PAY COMMISSIONS ERRODED THEIR PAY/PENSION/STATUS ];
They were denied their system of Military Pensions, (the pension of Defence personnel were reduced while that of Civilians Counterparts were increased. The highest pension of civil servant till 1970 was Rs 416.50 Pm/- while that of Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) it was Rs 1000 Pm/. In 2006, pension for both is Rs 45000/- pm, which means while the pension of Defence highest rank has increased only 45 times, that of civilian highest rank it has increased 108 times). THE COL [SELECTION]/BRIG GOT REDUCTION BY 30 TIMES. There is just no justification for the same.
COL LAMBA