Parrikar Asks MoD Officials to Evolve A Policy for Reducing Court Cases on Pensions
Directorate General of Defence Estates have made good progress in digitization of Defence Land records. History division of the Ministry has also digitized War Records. Several other digitized records viz. Recruitment Rules, civil lists etc are likely to be placed on our website very soon.
A committee constituted to look into discrepancies in One Rank One Pension Scheme
A Committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary to look into the issue of One Rank One Pension and other related matters. After considering all aspects of the issue, the Committee did not find it administratively feasible to recommend One Rank One Pension, as such. However, several other recommendations to substantially improve pensionary benefits of Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) and Commissioned officers have been made, which have been accepted by the Government:-
(i) Inclusion of Classification Allowance for PBOR from Jan 01, 2006.
(ii) Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from Jan 01, 2006.
Ex-servicemen on Sunday returned about 5,000 service medals to the President in protest against the attitude toward one rank one pensin scheme.
A ten-member team led by General (retd) B K Ranjan returned the medals — which 4,000 ex-servicemen had voluntarily deposited — to the President, Maj-Gen (retd) Satbir Singh, vice-chairman of the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM), said. The organisation deposited the service medals to make the government see the demands, he added.It is because of the bureaucracy and political parties that our demands remain unaddressed.
source:timesofindia
