MoD clears pending pension orders -Tribune News :Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.

Dear Veterans, Your wait is over.
Finally, MoD has issued the
notification on 8-3-2010. It will
soon reach all of you through net.

Veterans may please note that all this delay was due to
the fact that some of our own (R) own veterans, still having
a sway in MoD.,have been trying to get this delayed so that
JCOs. and below should carry on looking forward to them
for every thing and follow them like MAI BAPP as they did
during active service.
Now those veterans are oppsing the move of Govt. to
abolish the Tradition of Deployment of Sahayak with
officers in Army.
We,all, have to stand,firmly, against them and support
the Govt. in getting this tradition abolished.
Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal
PLS Retd.
President,
Ex Soldiers,Sailors andAirmen
Association( Regd.)

MoD clears pending pension orders:
Ajay BanerjeeTribune News Service

New Delhi, March 10.Just five days after Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh promised in Lok Sabha to address the

issue of pensions for ex-servicemen, the Ministry of

Defence today circulated instructions to implement two

pending matters.
This would increase the pensions of jawans and also

bring the much-awaited parity between persons who

were getting lesser pension than their juniors.
The Ministry has issued orders to bring about parity

between persons who retired before October 10, 1997,

and those who retired after that date. This will be

applicable to all persons below other ranks (PBORS)

of the Army, Air Force and the Navy.
About 12 lakh retired jawans, airmen and sailors, who

form the core of Defence Minister AK Antony’s long-term

welfare measures, will be benefited.
The second part of the latest instructions is to improve

the pensions as per the award of the Group of Ministers

in 2006. This mean the award has been accepted and orders

issued in this regard.
It may be mentioned that these two issues were pending

since last year’s Lok Sabha polls, and even ended up

creating a minor controversy. Media reports were then

published quoting unidentified sources that the same

had been cleared, even as the five-phase polling process

was on.
The Election Commission had sought a clarification and

the Ministry had to clarify that the said media reports

were false.
Sources in the Ministry of Defence today explained that a

Committee under the chairmanship of the Cabinet

Secretary has considered the demands of the ex-servicemen

and made seven recommendations. Five of these had been

cleared and two were pending.
The other five points cleared by the Cabinet Secretary

and implemented by the MoD were:

1.Inclusion of Classification Allowance for PBOR from 1.1.2006;

2.Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from 1.1.2006;

3.Revision of Lt Generals’ pension after carving out a separate

pay scale for them;

4.Broad banding percentage of disability/war injury pensions

for pre 1.1.2006 disability/war injury pensioners.

5.Removal of cap on war injury element of pension in the case

of disabled pensioners.
All these moves will collectively cost Rs 2,200 crore to the

exchequer annually.
Implementation of these orders will not only significantly

reduce the gap between the past and the current pensioners

but will also considerably improve the pension of

ex-servicemen, including disabled ex-servicemen. Last week,

the Prime Minister and BJP veteran LK Advani had an

exchange of sharp words over the matter. Advani has

accused the government of going back on its words of

helping the ex-servicemen in and implementing ‘one rank

one pension”.