Inordinate delay in the implementation of One Rank One Pension : UFESM writes to Defence Minister on 20th October 2015
INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL
Dear Veterans
Letter to RM and three chiefs dated 20 Oct 2015 is enclosed herewith for your information and widest circulation please.
With regards,
Yours Sincerely,
Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd)
Advisor United Front of Ex Servicemen & Chairman IESM
Ph: +0124 4110570
Email: satbirsm@gmail.com
URGENT ATTENTION OF RM
20 Oct 2015
Shri Manohar Parrikar
Hon’ble Raksha Mantri
104, South Block, New Delhi
INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL
Hon’ble Raksha Mantri
1. Further to our letters dated 18 Sep 15, 20 Sep 15 and 30 Sep 2015.
2. With concern, we wish to bring to your notice that the Govt Notification for the Implementation of OROP has not yet been issued. During the announcement made by you on 05th Sep 15, you had assured the country that Govt Notification will be issued within a month. Subsequently, you stated that it would be issued before Navratri which started with effect from 13 Oct 15. Once again, you have changed the goal post by stating that the OROP Notification will be issued after the Bihar Elections.
3. Mr Raksha Mantri, this is a serious cause of concern to us since we the defence personnel have been trained to operate on time bound schedules. Imagine! If the responses at the border, in counterinsurgency operations or during the War, are delayed at various levels of Military in a similar manner as the MoD is now procrastinating in the issue of Govt Notification of the implementation of OROP.
4. We, the defence fraternity are anguished at the apathy and neglect being demonstrated by the Govt.
5. Mr Raksha Mantri, you are also aware that there are seven serious shortcomings in the statement made by you on 05thSep 2015 as brought out by us in our above quoted letters. In case the same is persisted by the Govt, it will not be OROP. In fact, it will totally kill the approved definition of OROP.
6. You are also aware that the Prime Minister himself had assured the soldiers that actual OROP would be implemented for the Defence Personnel. It is not Good Governance that after the Scheme has been sanctioned by the Govt as a concept in perpetuity eighteen months ago, it has not yet been implemented. This is also betrayal of faith.
7. We urge you to issue the Govt Notification for the implementation of OROP after the removal of all seven shortcomings already pointed out in our above quoted letters at the earliest.
8. We also are aghast at the recent statement on OROP made by one of your Colleague Minister, Col Rajayavardhan Rathore who had also once upon a time worn the uniform of a soldier. He also seems to have forgotten the Chetwode credo enunciated at the IMA Central Hall.
9. Mr Raksha Mantri, any Country which does not respect its soldiers is doomed to fail. Today is the 127th day of relay Hunger Strike at Jantar Mantar and other locations in the Country. We have not been considered worth a meeting to address our issue of OROP.
I request for an urgent meeting with you at the earliest, which may please be granted.
With regards,
Yours Sincerely,
Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd)
Advisor United Front of Ex Servicemen & Chairman IESM
Ph: +0124 4110570
Email: satbirsm@gmail.com
Copy to :-
General Dalbir Singh
PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC
Chief of the Army Staff
Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Army)
South Block, New Delhi-110011
You are requested to jointly and strongly take up the issue
with the Govt.
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha
PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC
Chief of the Air Staff &
Chairman Chiefs of Staffs Committee (CoSC)
Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Air Force)
Vayu Bhawan, New Delhi 110011
Our request as above.
Admiral R K Dhowan, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADCChief of the Naval Staff
Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Navy)
South Block, New Delhi -110011
Source: https://ex-servicemenwelfare.blogspot.in/