what can be termed good news for ex-armed forces personnel, the Cabinet on Monday approved a pension plan of Rs 23,00 under the ‘One Rank One Pension’ scheme.The armed forces have been agitating for One Rank One Pension scheme for quite some time now.As per the bonanza scheme, every ex-serviceman will be eligible for the same pension at his rank, regardless of when he joined or retired.The ‘One Rank...
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Govt enhances pensions of retired soldiers, 'one-rank, one-pension' still distantNEW DELHI: Faced with huge discontentment among military personnel over their long-standing pay and pension grievances, the government on Monday finally announced an annual Rs 2,300 crore additional pension package for ex-servicemen but stopped short of granting them full one-rank, one-pension (OROP).The government also...
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movement for ‘one rank one pension’ (OROP) for ex-servicemen is gathering steam in Gujarat....
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Ex-servicemen are unhappy with the pension hike announced by government saying it amounted to "wrong and deceitful" treatment of their long-pending 'One Rank One Pension' demand and vowed to continue struggle for their rights."It is deceiving. Government has wrongly interpreted the term 'One Rank One Pension' (OROP). They have not given OROP, instead they have just merely made an enhancement in pension,"...
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Govt enhances pensions of retired soldiers but 'one-rank, one-pension' still distantThough they haven't yet got their demand of one-rank, one-pension, 23 lakh ex-servicemen, many of whom have been holding regular rallies and returning their medals as a mark of protest for the last four years, have something to cheer about.NEW DELHI: Faced with huge discontentment among military personnel over their...
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Govt enhances pensions of retired soldiers, 'one-rank, one-pension' still distantThough they haven't yet got their demand of one-rank, one-pension, 23 lakh ex-servicemen, many of whom have been holding regular rallies and returning their medals as a mark of protest for the last four years, have something to cheer about.NEW DELHI: Faced with huge discontentment among military personnel over their l...
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Union Cabinet on Monday hiked the pensions of former servicemen — officers and other ranks — who retired before 2006 by clearing pension proposals worth `2,300 crores. Other ranks who retired in and after 2006 will benefit too. The government, while stopping short of completely granting the “one-rank-one-pension” demand of ex-servicemen, said it tried to “bridge the gap” with the proposals cleared...
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decided to form a committee to look into pay and pension-related issues of armed forces personnel, including the long-standing demand for one rank, one pension (OROP).Defence pensioners have been seeking equal pension for personnel of the same rank and length ofservice, as successive pay commissions have widened the gap between the pensions received by personnel who retired before and after the im...
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Bowing to the long pending demand from ex-servicemen for One Rank One Pension (OROP), the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today approved the package that will cost the government Rs 2300 crore annually. The high-powered CCS which met here under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh almost cleared the One Rank One Pension scheme, official sources...
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Chief of Army Staff General V K Singh Sunday hinted at implementation of one rank one pension and said all information regarding ex-army men would be collected and their problems would be sorted out.Addressing a conference of ex-army men in Ballia, Gen Singh said that all efforts were being made to implement one rank one pension from the last two years.Stating efforts were also being made to remove...
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