After the implementation of OROP the pension related anomalies will be reduced – Manohar Parrikar
Enhancing Military Capabilities is the Top Priority– Manohar Parrikar
The Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar has said that his top priority is to enhance military capabilities of the country with due focus on modernization of the armed forces. Inaugurating a two-day Controllers’ Conference of Defence Accounts Department, here today, he said, high serviceability levels of equipment and weapon systems and high morale of soldiers is also necessary which is possible with an effective and optimum resource utilisation. He stressed on working as an integrated whole with shared resources of data and information, specifically in area of pension, payments, compilation and accounting preferably on real time basis. The Defence Minister emphasized that faster and transparent decision making and focus on “Make in India” are the two pillars of our strategy for leapfrogging our economy to a higher growth. Shri Parrikar cautioned the Defence Accounts officials against any attack of hackers on their database.
Shri Parrikar also inaugurated Pension Call Centre for dealing the queries from the pensioners and their families regarding their entitlement and pension payments. The Pension call centre for Army pensioners has been established in the office of PCDA (Pension) at Allahabad and can be accessed through the toll free number 1800 180 5321. The Defence Minister also hinted that an order regarding implementation of One-Rank-One-Pension (OROP) may be issued very soon. He said after the implementation of OROP the pension related anomalies will be reduced. On this occasion a statistical hand book on defence expenditure was also released by the Defence Minister. Earlier, Director General of Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) Shri MJ Joseph presented a ISO 9001 certificate to Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) Shri Arvind Kaushal for its Delhi Defence Accounts Office.
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir Singh, CGDA Shri Arvind Kaushal and Financial Advisor (Defence Services) Ms Vandana Srivastava were amongst the dignitaries who graced the inaugural function.
The theme of the conference is ‘Good Governance through strategic collaboration. During the conference, four business sessions concerning shared Database, E-Governance, Strengthening of IFAs System and HRD issues have been planned covering the Department’s working and emphasizing synergy with its client etc. of the defence services. Senior officer of the department as well as defence forces will lead the panel discussions on these issues and provide a road map for collaborated system improvements.
Source: PIB News
Manoj kumar Patel says
OROP Bin depavli, depavli ho jayagi ,,,,,,,,, thanks for the defense minister
barun says
I am requesting all the politician not to give any false statement to Defense person & retire defense person.
sudam narayan deshmukh says
Sir,
I am ex havildar completing 16.10 month service in bombay ebhineer group as store keeper grade I.what is my new pension in orop.
BASANT KUMAR says
finally when will the notification be issued.ESM are fed up with assurances now.
mriganka says
sir,
Now we want to listn the exact date of getting the enhanced pension from Mr Parrikar,not the sentance of ‘orop will do good to us, because we are fedding up gradually by listning such type of sentences about orop, orop file is on the table of DM then it is on some others table etc etc(just like a testmach comentry) as if we are uneducated and innocent indian .
so tell the date of getting this