Manohar
Parrikar, Defence Minister
Panaji, December 26
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said the
‘one rank, one pension’ policy would be implemented in the defence forces
before the next Budget.
“One rank, one pension policy will be implemented.
We are right now working on its detailing,” Parrikar said. The implementation
has lot of financial implications which are being worked out, he said.
“It has a lot of financial implications. Details
would be available only once we work it out,” Parrikar said.
‘One rank, one pension’ policy means soldiers of
the same rank and same length of service get the same pension irrespective of
their retirement date. Parrikar said the announcement to implement the policy
was made in the last Budget.
“Now we will have to implement it. I have kept a
target that it will be implemented before the next Budget. My effort is to
ensure that it should be implemented as soon as possible. My target is that it
should not wait for the next Budget,” he said.
Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha recently, the
Congress had accused the government of delaying the implementation of the
scheme. The OROP had been announced in the Interim Budget in February, but was
yet to be implemented, Congress MP from Rohtak, Deepender Hooda, said in
Parliament.
Deepender Hooda accused the bureaucracy of trying
to dilute the original meaning of OROP as defined by the Koshiyari Committee,
which was the petition committee of the Rajya Sabha. Hooda had asked the
government to come out and announce the implementation of OROP. — PTI
1 comment:
How OROP is calculated? What is the basis to arrive ORP for both pre and post 2006 retirees? It should be maximum of Band Pay+GP+MSP as notional pay to fix pension for 33 yrs of service allowing necessary weightage in service wherever necessary.
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