Sunday 17 April 2016

OROP Implementation : Letter to Under Sec Def Pen Policy - Col Rohit Kumar

Dear Sh R K Arora


Refer public notification on ibid subject published under your signature on 13.04.2016 vide F. No. 12(39)/2015/D(Pen/Pol)(Part-V), Ministry of Defence, Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare D(Pension/Policy).

I, Col Rohit Kumar, a Veteran, find the following lacunae in One Rank One Pension published / announced by Government of India. Please forward my observations to One Man Judicial Committee set up for redress.

The basic minimum that needs to be addressed immediately are:

1.        Restore the pension of Jawans and JCOs to 70% of last pay drawn as was the case prior to 1973.

2.        Family pension of defence personnel to be the same as the pensioner themselves would have drawn and not reduced to 60%.

3.        All defence personnel to be provided second career till the age of 60 years through an act of Parliament.

4.        OROP be implemented as concept in perpetuity as per the original definition given in the Govt Executive orders dated 26 Feb 2014 as under:-

(i)        OROP as approved, 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.

(ii)       It further implies that Pensions of past defence retirees will be equal to that of a person with same rank and length of service retiring wef 01 Apr 2014, future enhancement in the rates of pensions will be automatically passed to the past pensioners.

5.        Change in definition of OROP introduced by the Government, “Equalisation on periodic Intervals”, has killed the very soul of OROP must be cancelled immediately.

6.        Pay, Pensions and all allowances of armed forces combatant personnel to be fully tax exempt OR higher by at least 25% on “Year Wise” basis vis-a-vis all other Govt Services and not rank / appointment based. This is the very least the nation owes to men and women whose fundamental rights as citizens were curtailed for the full length of their service.

7.        Anomalies in 7th CPC Recommendations as represented by the three Chiefs to the RM to be rectified on priority before the acceptance of the 7th CPC award by the Govt.
8.        OROP to be updated to 01.01.2016 and then the 7th CPC applied to it.



Have a nice day
Regards Rohit



Sh R K Arora
Under Secretary/D(Pension/Policy)
Room No. 220A, B’ Wing
Sena Bhawan, New Delhi-110011

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