Tuesday, October 20, 2015

INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL

20 Oct 2015 
INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL

Dear Veterans 
        Letter to RM and three chiefs dated 20 Oct 2015 is enclosed herewith for your information and widest circulation please.
With regards,

        Yours Sincerely,

Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd)
Advisor United Front of Ex Servicemen & Chairman IESM
Mobile: 9312404269, +0124 4110570
Email: satbirsm@gmail.com
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URGENT ATTENTION OF RM

20 Oct 2015 
Shri Manohar Parrikar
Hon’ble Raksha Mantri
104, South Block, New Delhi

INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL
Hon’ble Raksha Mantri
1.     Further to our letters dated 18 Sep 15, 20 Sep 15 and 30 Sep 2015.
2.   With concern, we wish to bring to your notice that the Govt Notification for the Implementation of OROP has not yet been issued. During the announcement made by you on 05th Sep 15, you had assured the country that Govt Notification will be issued within a month. Subsequently, you stated that it would be issued before Navratri which started with effect from 13 Oct 15. Once again, you have changed the goal post by stating that the OROP Notification will be issued after the Bihar Elections.
3.     Mr Raksha Mantri, this is a serious cause of concern to us since we the defence personnel have been trained to operate on time bound schedules. Imagine! If the responses at the border, in counterinsurgency operations or during the War, are delayed at various levels of Military in a similar manner as the MoD is now procrastinating in the issue of Govt Notification of the implementation of OROP.
4.     We, the defence fraternity are anguished at the apathy and neglect being demonstrated by the Govt.
5.     Mr Raksha Mantri, you are also aware that there are seven serious shortcomings in the statement made by you on 05thSep 2015 as brought out by us in our above quoted letters. In case the same is persisted by the Govt, it will not be OROP. In fact, it will totally kill the approved definition of OROP.
6.     You are also aware that the Prime Minister himself had assured the soldiers that actual OROP would be implemented for the Defence Personnel. It is not Good Governance that after the Scheme has been sanctioned by the Govt as a concept in perpetuity eighteen months ago, it has not yet been implemented. This is also betrayal of faith.
7.     We urge you to issue the Govt Notification for the implementation of OROP after the removal of all seven shortcomings already pointed out in our above quoted letters at the earliest.
8.     We also are aghast at the recent statement on OROP made by one of your Colleague Minister, Col Rajayavardhan Rathore who had also once upon a time worn the uniform of a soldier. He also seems to have forgotten the Chetwode credo enunciated at the IMA Central Hall.
9.     Mr Raksha Mantri, any Country which does not respect its soldiers is doomed to fail. Today is the 127th day of relay Hunger Strike at Jantar Mantar and other locations in the Country. We have not been considered worth a meeting to address our issue of OROP.
I request for an urgent meeting with you at the earliest, which may please be granted.
With regards,
        Yours Sincerely, 

Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd)
Advisor United Front of Ex Servicemen & Chairman IESM
Mobile: 9312404269, +0124 4110570
Email: satbirsm@gmail.com

Copy to :-
General Dalbir Singh
PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC
Chief of the Army Staff
Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Army)
South Block, New Delhi-110011


You are requested to jointly and strongly take up the issue
with the Govt.
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha
PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC
Chief of the Air Staff &
Chairman Chiefs of Staffs Committee (CoSC)
Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Air Force)
Vayu Bhawan, New Delhi 110011


Our request as above.
Admiral R K Dhowan, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADCChief of the Naval Staff
Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Navy)
South Block, New Delhi -110011

(Source- Via e-mail)


Our request as above.
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16 comments:

  1. laxmanOctober 20, 2015 at 12:40 PM

    Sir, why every time we have to write to the Servoce Cjiefs.Isnt there duty to look after the interest of men under their command.DoThey need a reminder? To days serviceman is tomorrows exserviceman.Infact all three services chiefs should walk in to the P M office and say that enouh is enough . And if the govt can not withstand the burden of o r o p say so openly and do not change the goal post time and again. We jave been insulted enough.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 20, 2015 at 2:27 PM

    Lagta hai yeh orop ka jumla jahan se suru hua tha wahi per khatam hoga. Sarkar ise bhoot samajh rahi hai. Bhoot ko jinda hona parega, darne se kam nahi chalega.

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  3. V K DasOctober 20, 2015 at 2:52 PM

    What is the idea of writing these letters, has any one letter been even acknowledged leave alone replied to.We cannot get very far by taking a very rigid stand of 'take it or leave it'.Employees put up their demand, negotiate, take some and leave some but do not adopt a rigid stand of 'all or none'.No Govt is going to surrender as we want them to. Our demands however justified in our eyes cannot be non-negotiable.We have adopted a wrong path and will not achieve what we want.We have to be practical and realistic.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 20, 2015 at 2:54 PM

    What is the idea of writing these letters, has any one letter been even acknowledged leave alone replied to.We cannot get very far by taking a very rigid stand of 'take it or leave it'.Employees put up their demand, negotiate, take some and leave some but do not adopt a rigid stand of 'all or none'.No Govt is going to surrender as we want them to. Our demands however justified in our eyes cannot be non-negotiable.We have adopted a wrong path and will not achieve what we want.We have to be practical and realistic.

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  5. UnknownOctober 20, 2015 at 3:37 PM

    Nothing but arrogance of the government A nautanki was done by the RM on 5th Sep. as if to entertain children less than 5 years age , certainly not the graceful way to deal with grey haired veterans of the services.

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  6. UnknownOctober 20, 2015 at 8:16 PM

    Raksha MantriJi's astrologer told NAVRATRI is the best day to announce. but forget to indicate the date. So RM re-discuss with astrologer,navratri going to be end.

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  7. mahendraOctober 20, 2015 at 9:30 PM

    dear sir thanks for efforts

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  8. UnknownOctober 21, 2015 at 2:25 AM

    This blog neither educates nor enlightens. OROP of course is a genuine demand, but the entire agitation now seems to be few people's effort to seem relevant. (I write this as a retired soldier and am no outsider to military life's hardships).

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  9. karunakaran aOctober 21, 2015 at 11:16 AM

    Dear sir,

    bundle of pleas and requests are made to DM both by writing and orally, all have gone to dustbin like toilet tissues. no body either PM or DM even opposition party they are mending their own way see the conditions appear some thing radical change is necessary to make them realise their mistake

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  10. AbeOctober 22, 2015 at 12:17 AM

    Gen Satbir Singh, Do the chief's of Army / Nay / Air Force even acknowledge / respond to your letters since they were copied to them let alone the netas. They Chief's must at least have show some courtesy and respond to a letter from a senior veteran. I think we should just wait it out. Thank you all for all the efforts being put in for OROP.

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  11. K RajamanickamOctober 23, 2015 at 7:47 AM

    Dear Sir,
    Issue of implementation letter for OROP will not be objected by EC as it is a process of administrative action and NOT a new concession to any section of people to cover up vote.

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  12. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 2:28 PM

    Sooner or later we will have to go to court of law to get our legitimate demands.

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  13. PADMANABHA BHATOctober 23, 2015 at 8:46 PM

    Please dooo not request 4 orop ,which is our right.Aggar nahi maante ..... aage sochna padega is desh ka kya hoga......?????? sab beauractras jawan ka haath ka hathyaar bhi cheenlega.

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  14. UnknownOctober 23, 2015 at 9:52 PM

    Expected one rank one pension after Bihar election.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 26, 2015 at 9:40 AM

      नही होगा अभी दीवाली भी तो हे पर्रिकर जी मिठाई देगे आप जरूर खाना और बात दावे के साथ कह रहा हु ये सब 7th pay पर होगा तब तक ये आप सब को लोली पॉप देते रहगे

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  15. UnknownOctober 26, 2015 at 2:01 PM

    Sir good effort again and again reminders may woke them up how ever most of us don't believe

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