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OROP Scheme – Shadow of A Promise: Outlook Article

April 27, 2015 admin 2 Comments

One rank One pension – Shadow of A Promise: Outlook Article

The Modi government is apparently set to keep the promise he made to ex-soldiers

The Narendra Modi government is expected to deliver on its “one rank, one pension” (OROP) promise, a promise the prime minister himself made to armed forces veterans when he kicked off his election campaign in Rewari, a southern district of Haryana with a strong tradition of sending men into the armed forces. According to a source, defence minister Manohar Parrikar has approved the policy and payments are to be made with arrears, which will altogether cost the government Rs 8,000 crore.

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The pension payment would be linked to an ex-serviceman’s last salary drawn and the government has promised to put a previously retired veteran’s pension at par with that of a freshly retired ex-serviceman of the same rank and years of service. This will partly assuage a 40-year-old grievance of officers and ranks from the three forces.

The government is expected to table the proposal during the ongoing budget session of Parliament, with the release of funds to be announced when the government marks one year in office. Based on the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations in 2008, the then government adopted a discriminatory pension policy for ex-servicemen of the same rank and length of service. Simply put, since 2006, ex-servicemen of the same rank and number of years in service have been paid different pension amounts, based on when they had retired.

Ex-servicemen object to this disparity since the cost of living today is the same for everyone, regardless of when they retired. It seemed the government expected that a general, air-marshal or jawan who retired in the 1990s should have a different lifestyle from their successors of the same rank and length of service who retired later with a higher last drawn salary.

Former defence personnel had previously organised themselves and lobbied with the government at different times. But the disparity in pension hurt veterans across ranks and they held a protest rally at India Gate, much to the embarrassment of the then UPA government. A day after his nomination was announced in September 2013 as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Modi’s first speech was not at a party event. The Indian Ex-Ser­vicemen’s Movement (iesm) had organised the event in Haryana and with tho­u­sands of ex-servicemen in attendance, Modi had played to the gallery promising he would implement the OROP policy. A week before that, former chief of army staff and now Union minister of state for external affairs, General (retd) V.K. Singh had made the same promise. Both played up the issue because it affects around 24 lakh ex-servicemen, 6.5 lakh martyrs’ widows and the 14 lakh men and women in uniform protecting the country. Ten days after Modi’s spe­ech, then Congress MP Rao Inderjeet Singh, from Gurgaon, gave up his Cong­ress membership and joined the BJP.

Related updates:

    PCDA OROP-2 Circular No 666 PDF 2023
    One Rank One Pension (OROP-2) Pension Revision Table (1 to 121) – Check Your Pension Here

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Comments

  1. Pawan Sobti says

    May 7, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    Concerted efforts in taming the so called unyielding animal of the present intransigent bureaucracy would simply not be an easy task for the biggies like the PM or RM what they themselves are to deal with is someone who , who seem to be not at all in favour of the OROP . The reason being with its implementation none of their own interests will seem served . The then Govt before the one now at the center dangled the carrot only to garner a hefty vote bank and had succeeded in fooling the ESM community . Not dissimilar is the case with this Govt. which has only been mulling and mulling endlessly to no avail .I wonder why promises are made when they can not be kept

    Assurances seem false at this juncture as many of them have already been made . Going by the earlier assurances OROP actually should have seen light of the day and Pensioners atleast by now should have got their much awaited dues and the effective new revised Pensions as per the OROP table prepared by the ARMY HQ. should have been credited to their individual account. The issue has been unnecessarily stretched far and wide as its not in the interest of the larger section of the bureaucracy . Status of the OROP after almost a year and many months looks to be some ” mirage” some far fetched ” illusion “. For now its unreal , SURREAL call it anything but as long as it is being dragged on …….. its picture reminds me of someone with wounds and being on crutches . RM is a man of action and so is the PM I wonder with these two mammoths at the helm of affairs why there has to be unwarranted delays .Why by this time the OROP can’t be made a reality and endless smiles brought to the faces of millions of Armed Forces retirees .

    Let not the soldiers lose their faith in the present Govt. Its about time the Modi Govt. lived up to its Promise of implementing the OROP at it very earliest.

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  2. B P SIRSAT says

    April 29, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    orop benefit degital life certificate is compalsary?

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