New Delhi, Feb 9: There is a good news for the defence personnel
as the ministry has sought a fresh analysis of the concerns raised by the Army,
Navy and the Air force- over the recommendations of the seventh pay commission. Also read: Seventh Pay Commission: Good
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The government has studied
representations from the armed forces vis-a-vis the 7th Pay Commission and
their concerns will be addressed "in the near future", Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar said. "I have interacted with
the three service chiefs and discussed the concerns of the forces. The concerns
will be addressed in the near future," he said.
The concerns include the way in which
pensions were calculated on the basis of number of years put in at a particular
rank. Another grudge is the risk-hardship matrix. While a soldier posted in the
Siachen glacier gets Rs. 31,500 as allowance per month, a civilian bureaucrat
draws 30 per cent of his salary as "hardship allowance”.
About the One Rank One Pension (OROP)
issue, he said concerns of ex-servicemen will be addressed by a one-member
judicial committee headed by L Narasimha Reddy, a retired chief justice of the
Patna High Court. Mr Parrikar said the Modi government had fulfilled its
promise on the OROP which had been implemented after 43 years. "As
promised by the BJP, we have already issued a table of various pensions as per
the OROP scheme," said the Defence Minister. "The community of
retired servicemen is large; one formula cannot solve all issues. Any
contentious issues will be referred to the one-man committee," Mr Parrikar
said.
As for the protesting ex-servicemen's
stand on approaching the court on the OROP issue, the minister said:
"Fundamentally, every person has the right to approach a court. "To
the best of our understanding of the issues, we have fulfilled our
promise," he asserted. Furthermore, he said that the expenditure on OROP
of Rs.7,500 crore each year was much larger than what the previous government
had allocated for the scheme. The arrears total of Rs.10,900 crore. The
previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government had allocated
Rs.500 crore for the OROP.
Concerned over increasing pay
disparity between defence personnel and their civilian counterparts, the three
Service Chiefs earlier met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and discussed
issues related to "anamolies and shortcomings" in the 7th Pay
Commission report. The service chiefs had earlier written to Parrikar
highlighting various aspects of the Pay Commission report which the military
felt was a "let down".
(Source- OneIndia News)
The 7CPC matrix is based on Grade pay, and number of increments earned by the pensioners. Is the PCDA geared with the required data on increments of each and every individual pensioner/family pensioner? If so, how will they count the number of increments where the promotion norms changed over a period of time. For example promotion to Major was at 13 years earlier, now it is at 6 years. The earlier Major might have retired at 20 years service earning 7 increments, the present Major at the same qualified service might have earned 13 increments (notionally) or attained the rank of Lt Col with four increments. How will the PCDA do justice for similar cases with other ranks with similar anomaly arising both for the officers and the PBOR?
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ReplyDeleteOur dandy politicians and bureaucracy will never understand the commitment involved. They believe in talk, talk and talk alone. Vladimir Lenin said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." And they believe in it. If one is in communion with Truth, his relationships will just be relationships, not attachments. These politicians will know involvement but no entanglement. Time and again they claim the OROP is a closed chapter fulfilled by the BJP after failure by the Congress for 42 years. A lie repeated too often, is is the truth? Now this 7CPC comes to dilute it further.
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ReplyDeletewhether 7th pay commission is applicable to esm post orop implementation
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