Wednesday, April 8, 2015
‘ONE RANK ONE PENSION’ LATEST NEWS
April 8, 2015 29 CommentsFLASH FLASH FLASH OROP NEWS 06 Apr 2015 Dear Veterans, Jai Hind. The OROP file has been cleared by Ministry of Finance and is now with PM. There is NO DILUTION of the Definition of OROP as announced twice in the Lok Sabha. However, the X and Y Group pensions, of JCOs and OR will […]
Saturday, February 28, 2015
One Rank, One Pension NewBudget 2015-16
One Rank, One Pension stuck between Services and Defence Ministry
New Delhi | February 28, 2015 5:01 pm
Reinstating
government’s commitment on implementing the ‘One Rank, One Pension’ policy,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the issue is pending as the
method of calculating pension is stuck between the Armed Services and the
Defence Ministry. “I have already in the last Budget said that we are going to
implement ‘One Rank, One Pension’. This need not be stated on every occasion.
We are completely committed to it,” Jaitley told reporters here when asked
about the delay in launching the scheme.
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Explaining the reasons behind the delay, the
Minister said: “The methodology of calculating the One Rank, One Pension is an
issue pending between the Services and the Defence Ministry.” As and when that
idea is formulated, not only it should be implemented, it will be implemented,
he added. “You may only notice that I have today, despite the squeeze,
increased the allocation for Defence by almost Rs 25,000 crore,” Jaitley said. Last
month, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had said that ‘One rank, One pension’
scheme will be rolled out soon. The scheme, which seeks to ensure that a
uniform pension is paid to defence personnel who retire at the same rank with
the same length of service, irrespective of their date of retirement, has been
a long-standing demand of the over two million ex-servicemen in the country.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION BEFORE BUDGET
BJP MP demands early implementation of 'one rank, one pension'
Last Updated: Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 19:06
New Delhi: Demanding early implementation of the 'one rank, one pension' scheme, BJP MPTarun Vijay on Thursday suggested that "privileges" of MPs and MLAs be withdrawn and the money be used to fulfil the long-standing demand of the ex-servicemen if government is facing fund crunch.
In the meeting, the MP told Parrikar that if government was facing financial difficulty, then it should take away the privileges given to MPs and MLAs and the money should be used to implement the 'one rank one pension' scheme.Vijay, a member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, called on Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and conveyed his strong views on the issue.
Later, the BJP MP said the Defence Minister was "very sympathetic" to his demand and fully agreed that the government must act on it.
'One rank, one pension' has been a long-standing demand of the over two million ex-servicemen in the country.
It seeks to ensure that a uniform pension is paid to defence personnel who retire at the same rank with the same length of service, irrespective of their date of retirement.
Earlier this month, the Defence Minister had assured the ex-servicemen of early implementation of the scheme, saying his Ministry has fast-tracked the work on it.
Vijay also raised the issue of non-revision of disability pension to ex-servicemen. He said though soldiers' basic pension was revised in 2012, the disability pension has not been revised.
RAILWAY BUDGET 2015
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Railway Minister Spells Out Five Point Execution Strategy
for Transforming Indian Railways
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The Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu while presenting the
Railway Budget 2015-16 in Parliament today has said that the goals of
transforming Indian Railways will be achieved with a five point execution
strategy. These are:
a) Adopting a medium-term
perspective:
Budget proposals to mark beginning
of a Five Year Action Plan to transform the Railways.
b) Building Partnerships:
This will require partnering with
key stakeholders: States, PSU’s, partner with multilateral and bi-lateral
organizations & other governments to gain access to long term financing
and technology from overseas, the private sector to improve last mile connectivity,
expand fleet of rolling stock and modernize our station infrastructure.
c) Leveraging additional
resources:
Indian Railways envisages
investment of Rs. 8.5 lakh crore in next five years to be mobilized from
multiple sources to cater to funding i.e multilateral development banks,
pension funds.
d) Revamping management
practices, systems, processes, and re-tooling of human resources:
· Targeted operating ratio for 2015-16 at 88.5% against
91.8%in 2014-15: best in the last 9 years.
· Indian Railways to speed up decision making, tighten
accountability, improve management information systems: training and
development of human resource.
e) To set standards for
Governance and Transparency
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
ONE RANK ONE PENSION IN NEW BUDGET
PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
New Delhi: July 10, 2014
RS 1,000 CRORE TO ADDRESS THE PENSION DISPARITIES WHILE
IMPLEMENTING THE POLICY OF
“ONE RANK ONE PENSION” FOR SOLDIERS.
DEFENCE ALLOCATION
RAISED TO RS 2,29,000 CRORE CAPITAL OUTLAY FOR
DEFENCE MODERNIZATION INCREASED BY RS 5,000 CRORE
Allocation
for defence in this year’s General Budget has been raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore.
Presenting the Union Budget in Lok Sabha
today, the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley also proposed
a further sum of Rs 1,000 crore to
address the pension disparities while implementing the policy of “one rank one
pension” for soldiers.
Emphasizing on the modernization of the armed
forces to enable them to play their role effectively in the defence of
country’s strategic interests, the Finance Minister also proposed to increase
the capital outlay for defence modernization by Rs 5,000 crore over the amount provided
for in the interim Budget. This includes a sum of Rs 1,000 crore for
accelerating the development of the Railways system in the border
areas. He said urgent steps would also be taken to stream line the procurement
process to make it speedy and more efficient.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
ONE RANK ONE PENSION - NEW PRIMEMINISTER'S VIEW
"MY GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTED TO
ONE-RANK ONE-PENSION," SAID MODI
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June 23: Just over one month and Narendra Modi has already set
targets for his team of ministers. He has set three focus areas-improving
relations between the Centre and state governments, addressing public
complaints and grievances, and giving the armed forces vital equipment that has
been long-delayed. And his ultimate directive was to multi-track all these
areas for immediate attention and action. He has directed the bureaucrats to
reduce delays in delivering results, cut down on the red tapes, and ensure
greater accountability and efficiency. He has also directed the civil servants
to ensure speedy resolution of grievances related to flights, train tickets,
journeys, telecom, banking, health and pensions, and the ones posted on social
media accounts and government websites. In fact, a special cell has been formed
in the PMO to monitor the speed in which the complaints are resolved. Harping
on the betterment of the state and central governments, Modi also declared that
any attention or help sought by any of the state governments will be answered.
Moreover, he has instricted the bureaucrats to take up any such issues which are
three-months old. Civil servants in his office have been asked to meet
representatives from each state in turn. The cycle of meetings will be repeated
every three months, sources said. Addressing the perpetual call for advanced
machineries and weapons by the defence forces, PM Modi has met the Defence
Minister Arun Jaitley and the head of the army, the airforce and the Navy and
has asked them to prepare a list of weapons they want and also suggest how to
best use the funds. He further announced that he would hold a meeting with
service chiefs every month to discuss the state of affairs and the concerns
relating the defence forces. While addressing navy official on his visit to INS
Vikramaditya, Modi had mentioned a national war memorial to be built for the martyrs
of the country and also spoken about implementing the one-rank-one pension
scheme, which guarantees that soldiers of the same rank and years of service
will receive the same pension irrespective of the year of their retirement. He
directed the ministers to work toward the speedy implementation of the above.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
MERGER OF
50 PERCENT DA
Merger of 50 percent DA may soon be considered
by Central Government –Sources
Sources close to the Central Government
Employees Federations told that Merger of 50% DA will soon be considered by
Central Government before the budget session of Parliament in February 2014.
According to the sources, the central government is likely to consider the
central government employees demand for merging of 50 % DA, for the
reason that the DA will be crossing 100% level after January 2014.
The rate of dearness allowance to be paid to
govt servants has been increasing consistently due to the rise in the prices of
essential commodities for the past two years. In 2011 the rate of DA was at 50
% level. Since then all the Federation demanded the central government to merge
the 50 Percent DA with basic Pay. But the government did not accept this demand
to merge the DA with basis pay, as it was not recommended by sixth CPC.
The demand would be
considered in view of parliament elections
But federations kept on demanding the
government that raising dearness allowance alone will not help to compensate
the alarming rate of price rice. So they urged the government to consider their
demand favorably. It is believed that after the defeat in the election of four
state legislative councils, the UPA government has decided to reconsider about
its decision on the issues which directly affects the common public. The high
command of the ruling party thought that the reason for their defeat in the
state election is mainly because of their government failed to contain the
price rise. The gap between common public and UPA government has been considerably
increased. To correct these failures the UPA government decides to do something
to attract the voters.
After announcing the government’s proposal to
constitute the 7th pay commission, the community of central government
employees has been convinced to have soft view on this government. Further the
50 lakh central government employees would be made happy if the 50% DA is
merged with Basic Pay. It is told that , as the central government staff
association and federations demanding it very seriously, in case the government
decides go with this demand, there will be around one crore voters will be in
favour of UPA government. So the government may consider the demand of merging
of 50% DA with basic Pay in view of forthcoming Parliament elections.
Allowances will have
no impact on merging DA with basic Pay
The sources, associated with National Council
JCM, said that the government initially was not willing to consider this demand
as some allowance and advances have been raised by 25% whenever the DA crosses
50% level as per the sixth CPC recommendation. But federations insisted that
the allowances, which are raised to 25 % level when DA crosses 50%, will have
no impact on merging DA with basic pay. The only allowance will have an
increase when Basic Pay increases are HRA. No other allowances will be
increased and other entitlement of the respective Grade Pay will not be revised
as the 50% DA to be merged will be kept under separate component like it was
treated in 5CPC as Dearness Pay. “There is no need to worry about financial
implications, as the 50% DA will be paid by just changing its nomenclature as
Dearness Pay”, said sources.
50% DA merger to be
decalered before DA crosses 100%
Further, it has been informed that it is good
enough for the government to announce its decision before declaring the next
additional installment of DA. Because the AICPIN for Industrial workers for the
Month of December 2013 is awaited to determine the rate of dearness allowance
to be paid from January 2014.The result of last 11 months AICPIN shows that DA
will definitely be raised by 10 % from existing 90% level. So the rate of DA
will be 100% with effect from 1st January 2014. After the DA increased to 100%,
the demand for 50% DA merger will have to change its avatar. Probably the
demand would be for 100% DA merger. So the federations expect the government
may consider 50% DA merger soon.
However, decision if any in this regard should
be taken before the announcement of election for parliament. It is expected
that election announcement for parliament will be made by the end of February
2014. Before that, the announcement of 50% DA merger is expected from
central government.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Great news for ex
servicemen. Finance Minister in his interim budget granted Rs 500 Crores for
implementation of OROP for the ex servicemen. It will be effected prospectively
from 01.04.2014.
Chidambaram says the government has accepted the one rank one pension scheme for the defence forces. "Rs 500 crore will be transferred in 2014-15 for implementing the 'one rank one pay' decision,"
Chidambaram says the government has accepted the one rank one pension scheme for the defence forces. "Rs 500 crore will be transferred in 2014-15 for implementing the 'one rank one pay' decision,"
NEW DELHI: It's election
season, and politicians are promising the one-rank, one-pension (OROP) to
retired military personnel yet again. The latest to join the bandwagon is
Congress vice-president Rahul
Gandhi, who
on Friday told a group of ex-servicemen that he backed their long-standing
demand.
"I am on your side. I understand your concerns. You give your life for the country, I will do all that I can to see that your demands are met," said Gandhi, addressing a gathering of over 500 ex-servicemen in Delhi.
But the fact remains that virtually all parties, including Congress and BJP, have time and again promised OROP to ex-servicemen in the run-up to elections but never implemented it once they came to office.
Both the UPA-I and UPA-II, with Pranab Mukherjee and AK Antony as defence ministers, for instance, have refrained from granting OROP despite ex-servicemen holding many protest rallies and returning their medals in thousands in protest.
OROP basically implies payment of uniform pension to personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service irrespective of their date of retirement. Consequently, any further enhancement in pension rates will automatically be passed on to past pensioners. The UPA government has certainly revised military pensions, holding that several steps have been taken over the last three to four years to "improve the welfare of ex-servicemen" at the additional cost of Rs 2,200 crore annually, but it is not the OROP the military veterans have been demanding.
The defence ministry in the past has contended that full OROP is neither financially nor administratively possible. As per one past estimate, full OROP implementation could mean an annual outgo of another Rs 1,200-1,300 crore, apart from payment of arrears in the range of Rs 4,000 crore. "There are also administrative reasons, with possible repercussions from the civil side, public sector and autonomous bodies," said an official.
"Significant improvements in pension for armed forces personnel were made over and above the benefits that accrued out of implementation of the 6th Pay Commission. Of the additional annual Rs 2,200 crore, a major share amounting to Rs 1,636 core went towards further improving the pension of PBORs (personnel below officer ranks)," he added.
But with elections on the horizon, it's time to woo the ex-servicemen with tall promises once again. The defence community of 14 lakh serving and 24 lakh retired military personnel swells into a sizable — albeit diffused — votebank of around 1.5 crore people if family members are also taken into account.
"I am on your side. I understand your concerns. You give your life for the country, I will do all that I can to see that your demands are met," said Gandhi, addressing a gathering of over 500 ex-servicemen in Delhi.
But the fact remains that virtually all parties, including Congress and BJP, have time and again promised OROP to ex-servicemen in the run-up to elections but never implemented it once they came to office.
Both the UPA-I and UPA-II, with Pranab Mukherjee and AK Antony as defence ministers, for instance, have refrained from granting OROP despite ex-servicemen holding many protest rallies and returning their medals in thousands in protest.
OROP basically implies payment of uniform pension to personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service irrespective of their date of retirement. Consequently, any further enhancement in pension rates will automatically be passed on to past pensioners. The UPA government has certainly revised military pensions, holding that several steps have been taken over the last three to four years to "improve the welfare of ex-servicemen" at the additional cost of Rs 2,200 crore annually, but it is not the OROP the military veterans have been demanding.
The defence ministry in the past has contended that full OROP is neither financially nor administratively possible. As per one past estimate, full OROP implementation could mean an annual outgo of another Rs 1,200-1,300 crore, apart from payment of arrears in the range of Rs 4,000 crore. "There are also administrative reasons, with possible repercussions from the civil side, public sector and autonomous bodies," said an official.
"Significant improvements in pension for armed forces personnel were made over and above the benefits that accrued out of implementation of the 6th Pay Commission. Of the additional annual Rs 2,200 crore, a major share amounting to Rs 1,636 core went towards further improving the pension of PBORs (personnel below officer ranks)," he added.
But with elections on the horizon, it's time to woo the ex-servicemen with tall promises once again. The defence community of 14 lakh serving and 24 lakh retired military personnel swells into a sizable — albeit diffused — votebank of around 1.5 crore people if family members are also taken into account.
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