Rationalization of casualty Pensionary Awards for the Armed Forces Officers and Personnel below Officer Rank (PBOR)
The concept of broad banding of percentage of disability/ war injury was introduced in respect of those Armed Forces Officers and Personnel below Officer Rank who were invalided out of service on or after 1.1.1996 on account of disability / war injury accepted as attributable to or aggravated by Military Service.
Rationalization of casualty Pensionary Awards for the Armed Forces Officers and Personnel below Officer Rank (PBOR) invalided out from service prior to 1.1.1996: Extension of benefit of broad banding of percentage of disability/ war injury.
No 12(16)/2009/D(Pen/Policy)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
New Delhi, the 15th September, 2014
To,
The Chief of Army Staff
The Chief of Naval Staff
The Chief of Air Staff
Subject: Rationalization of casualty Pensionary Awards for the Armed Forces Officers and Personnel below Officer Rank (PBOR) invalided out from service prior to 1.1.1996: Extension of benefit of broad banding of percentage of disability/ war injury.
Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer to the provisions stipulated in Para 7.2 of this Ministry’s letter No 1(2)/97/D(Pen-C) dated 31.1.2001 through which the concept of broad banding of percentage of disability/ war injury was introduced in respect of those Armed Forces Officers and Personnel below Officer Rank who were invalided out of service on or after 1.1.1996 on account of disability / war injury accepted as attributable to or aggravated by Military Service. The said provision for determining extent of disability / war injury was also extended to pre – 1.1.1996 invalided out cases from 1.7.2009 vide this Ministry’s letter No 10 (01)/D(Pen/Policy)2009/Vol II dated 19.1.2010 provided that the Armed Forces personnel were in receipt of disability element/ war injury element for disability more than 20% as on 1.7.2009.
2. Consequent upon receipt of reference from various Pensioners’ Associations for extending the provisions regarding broad banding of percentage of disability to such pre – 1.1.1996 Armed Forces pensioners from 1.1.1996 itself, the matter has been suitably examined in this Ministry. In partial modification of this Ministry’s above said letter dated 19th January 2010, the President is now pleased to decide that with effect from 1.1.1996, the benefit of broad banding of percentage of disability / war injury shall be allowed to Armed Forces Officers and PBOR pensioners who were invalided out of service prior to 1.1.1996 and were in receipt of disability element/ war injury element as on 1.1.1996. In such cases where the pensioner was not in receipt of disability element as on 1.1.1996 but became entitled at a later stage due to reassessment of disability more than 20%, this benefit shall be allowed from the same date. Similarly, in those cases where the pensioners were in receipt of disability element/ war injury element as on 1.1.1996 but the same was discontinued at a later stage due to reassessment of disability as less than 20%, the disability element/ war injury element shall be discontinued from the later date as hithertofore. However, in those pre-1.1.1996 cases where the disability element / war injury element was not allowed for disability being accepted as less than 20% at initial stage or subsequent stage on reassessment of disability, the same will continue to be disallowed and such cases will not be re-opened.
3. The disability element/ war injury element of pension in all such cases shall be recomputed accordingly under these orders by the Pension Sanctioning Authorities (PSAs) concerned for regulating payment under this Ministry’s letters No. PC 1{2}/97/D(Pen-C) dated 16.5.2001, No 16(6)/2008(1)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 4.5.2009 and letter No. 17(4)/2008(1)/ D(Pen/Policy)/Vol-V dated 15.2.2011. For this purpose, each affected Armed Forces pensioner who were invalided out of service prior to 1.1.1996 and were in receipt of disability element/ war injury element on 1.1.1996 or thereafter, shall submit an application in the format enclosed as Annexure to this letter to the PSAs concerned through their Pension Disbursing Agencies and Record Offices in the case of PBOR and through Pension Disbursing Agencies in the case of Commissioned Officers to PSAs concerned for revision of disability element/ war injury element. PSAs may, however, also identify the affected cases from the corrigendum PPOs issued by them based on the application received in terms of this Ministry’s above said letter dated 19.1.2010, and for issue of corrigendum PPO.
4. If a pensioner, to whom benefit accrues under the provisions of this letter, had already died on or after 1.1.1996 but before date of issue of this letter, the application for revision shall be submitted by the family pensioners or by his heir, as the case may be. Payment of LTA shall, however, be regulated as per the extant Government orders on the subject matter.
5. All other terms and conditions for grant / revision of disability element/ war injury element of pension in respect of Armed Force pensioners invalided out of service prior to 1.1.1996, which are not affected by the provisions of this letter, will remain unchanged.
6. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their ID No PC to 10(22)/2009/Fin/Pen dated 19/08/2014.
Hindi version will follow.
Yours faithfully
( Chanan Ram Saini )
Deputy Secretary (Pension)
Source: Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
I am getting 20% disability elements of Rs 2042/- along with my service pension of Rs 17010/- kindly confirm what will be my disability pension w .e .f January 2016.
Sir jee,men unit men kam karte samay par facture ho jane ke karan 2003 board out go goya thah.men 13 sal nokri kia hoin aur muja 4350 basic pay ke hisab se pay mil raha hai.muja orop ke hisab se ab kitna milaga aur mera rank nk thah
I’m a exserviceman invalided from army sevice on medical ground.on 25-4-82. I joined army on 6-5-75. At that time my board was 40% which was reduced less than 20% after two years. I’m getting disability elements Rs 3500/basic pm.please let me know whether I’m entitled for orop
sir ram ram main rfn rajak mohammad 9rr [6rajrif] main 19 may 2003 se war enjuri pension le raha hu main 100% war disebal hu or 19may 2003 ko medical board out ho gya tha sir kya mujhe bhi one rank one pension ka fayda hoga dhanyawad sir jai hind
Good words from few politicians about Myanmar Operation to eliminate Militants by the Indian Army Commandos sounds well. My complements to them (politicians). Our brave soldiers took only40 minuts to finish the Ops. How long the PM,FM and DM will take to implement OROP ? Is this delay not a demoralizing factor for our such brave soldiers ? My millions of Salute to these brave soldiers who were part of this Ops. Jai Hind
OROP and Broad Banding of Disability Pension for the armed forces ESM are the burning issues which affects the morale of not only the ESM but also of the serving soldiers who are protecting our country. So its a request to the authority concern to implement these immediately without any further delay.