Rank parity on Panel Col Lamba

Respected PM & RM
Sir
How can babus  damage your image in media/ public
A) In Orop PMR case then PM had to respond in the evening for corrective action
B) Now in Rank Parity case how can they twist the tail. Showing you all superseded letters & hiding 2009 letter.as mentioned in BS news

Fix the erring babus  .Show them the door as they wanted to show the door to PM & You by twisting words & hiding letters

Request to fix Rank Parity at Pre 1973 level & pension also at pre 1973 level then all anomalies will automatically will be settled

.......Rank parity on boil
3 member panel set up to Fix parity as per WoP
Report to be submitted in 10 days

Babus must be fixed for hiding letter of 2009
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Rank pay parity Panel
If
Committee by the Babu's of the babu's for the babu's

Then
Parity

Off the forces
Bye the forces
Col Lamba ( one man army )

...

Armed forces rank parity
: Parrikar to set up 3-member panel

Posted at: Oct 28, 2016, 3:29 PM
Last updated: Oct 28, 2016, 3:29 PM (IST)

On Thursday night, Parrikar was informed by an aide that the rank parity issue had not been addressed totally. Tribune file
On Thursday night, Parrikar was informed by an aide that the rank parity issue had not been addressed totally. Tribune file
Ajay Banerjee

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 28

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will set up a three-member committee to advise the ministry and resolve the rank parity issue that has led to raised tempers in the armed forces.

On Thursday night, Parrikar was informed by an aide that the rank parity issue had not been addressed totally as some facts had not been brought out. Parrikar, not completely satisfied with the turn of events in the past one week, has now decided to set up the committee that will take 10 days to study all documents, including the decision of the Group of Ministers in 2009 ratified by the union Cabinet, sources said on Friday afternoon.
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Sources said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is keen to go totally by the Warrant of Precedence (WoP)–a guiding document of the government that laid down which rank in civil and military had to be given what protocol, status etc.

Under the WoP, a major general is equal to a joint secretary in the government. As per an MoD letter issued on October 18, a major general was equated to a principal director. On Thursday afternoon, the MoD issued a clarification saying it had only reiterated previous instructions, including the last one in 2005, and not lowered the rank parity.

The fact that the 2009 GoM decision and ratification by the cabinet had corrected this anomaly probably was missed in the decision-making of the MoD in the past one week.

Since October 18, the forces have informed Parrikar that this anomaly had been added and the rank parity letter issued on October 18 had actually lowered the status of the forces.

The MoD on Thursday said, “The present reiteration of rank equivalence is only for matters of assigning duties and functional responsibilities.”

The forces opine that there cannot be multiple parameters on rank-parity--one for ‘functionality’ and another on the Warrant of Precedence..

Defence ministry denies eroding military’s status, but GoM report contradicts MoD

The 1992 letter from tri-service chief, General SF Roderigues, complaining to the MoD about incorrectly enhancing civilian officials' status vis-a-vis military officers

By Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 28th Oct 16

The government faces growing criticism for slashing the military’s pay, status and disability pensions even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reaps political benefits in on-going election campaign from the “surgical strikes” the army launched on Lashkar-e-Toiba launch pads in September.

On Monday, The Telegraph reported that the ministry of defence (MoD) had summarily downgraded the status of military officers by a notch, relative to their civilian colleagues. Facing sharp public criticism, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar promised he would not allow the status of the armed forces to be eroded.

On Thursday, the MoD flatly denied any reduction in the military’s status, stating: “there has been no down-gradation or any change in the existing equivalence of the Service ranks whatsoever.

The existing functional equivalence as clarified in 1991 and further reiterated in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2005 has only been re-affirmed.”

Essentially, the MoD cited multiple letters to argue that the “functional equivalence” between military officers and Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service (AFHQCS) officials has always been: a joint director of AFHQCS is equated with a colonel, a director with a brigadier, and a principal director with a major general.

However, Business Standard learns that all the letters the MoD cites were superseded in 2009 by a Group of Ministers (GoM) report, prepared under the current president, Pranab Mukherjee.

The GoM, which examining the military’s strong protests at the 6th Central Pay Commission recommendations, formally equated army colonels with AFHQCS directors. A new pay band was created for lieutenant colonels, placing them above deputy secretaries but slightly below directors.

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the union cabinet accepted these GoM recommendations, and the MoD passed instructions for implementing these in January 2009.

All the letters the MoD cited today were superseded by this authority.

It is unclear whether Parrikar is even aware of the selective interpretation of facts in his ministry’s press release, or whether --- as his apologists argue --- he is a well-intentioned defence minister being undermined by his bureaucrats, who stand to gain from the new parities.

There are other recent issues, where the government has backtracked after initial denials.

After this newspaper reported that the government had slashed disability pensions the day after announcing the army’s successful strikes on Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist camps (October 10, “While ‘surgical strikes’ were under way, govt cut Army’s disability pensions”), the government first indicated it had actually increased pensions. Later, after checking the facts, the PMO referred the matter to a committee.

The question of inter-se parity with civilian officials has agitated the military for decades. A letter with Business Standard, written in 1992 by the army chief General SF Rodrigues, rails against the MoD’s attempts to change the status quo.

Rodrigues complained: “MoD, without consultations with Service HQ, had resorted to unauthorised and exaggerated designations of [civilians]… which has created aberrations and functional problems as [civilian] officers have refused to accept the authority of Service Officers under whom they had been working all these years.”

Nor is the military entirely blameless, since several service chiefs have acquiesced in granting higher “functional equivalence” to civilian officials, to promote smooth official functioning. However, Rodrigues writes:

“[MoD has] taken undue advantage of this and unilaterally sought to upgrade the status of AFHQ cadre officials, to the detriment of the authority and status of the [military].”

That was in 1992. More than three decades later, the MoD’s jockeying over status still continues.

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