Government of India notified the OROP scheme vide order dated 7th November 2015 delineating the principles of OROP scheme and the implementation process. This was followed by detail order on CROP scheme dated 3rd February 2016 enclosing 101 tables of revised benefits under the scheme, which were made available to various categories of Defence forces pensioners and family pensioners. A circular was also immediately issued on 4th February 2016 to all pension disbursing authorities containing detail instructions for making revised payments under the scheme.
2. The Defence Accounts Department was closely associated with the OROP scheme and undertook the following activities in the entire process-Collection, collation and presentation of variety of data and records of Defence pensioners for working out the financial implications.
Assisting the DESW/ MOD and PMO in finalizing the principles for rolling out the CROP scheme.
Working out more than 100 tables of various categories of pensioners revising the rates of pensions under OROP and formulation of government letter on the OROP. Issue of detailed payment instructions to all payment authorities for time bound payments.
Initiating a dialogue with Banks who account for 75% Defence pension disbursements and closely monitoring release of payments well before the prescribed timelines. The DPDOs became the first disbursing agency to have credited the revised benefits under OROP in a record time to the accounts of 2,21,205 Defence pensioners on 29th February 2016 amounting to Rs. 354 crores.
3. All the offices dealing with pension matters right from PCDA(P), PCDA (Navy), CDA/JCDA(AF), CDA (PD), CDA Chennai, the Aashraya team and the DPDOS rose to the occasion and carried out the tasks assigned to them in the most professional manner and well within the times-lines so prescribed. The agencies in the department worked as a well-knit team in a collaborative effort.
4. Another first was the dialogue, which was initiated with all the Public Sector Banks in advance taking them on board in the massive exercise of ensuring that time bound payments are made to lakhs of Defence pensioners. The mandate could be achieved successfully by advance planning, concerted follow up action and continuous dialogue with all stakeholders.
The latest update on release of pension benefits under OROP is enclosed.
(SOURCE : STAFF NEWS)
The disbursed amount is no were near 8000 Crores as anticipated by the authorities.May be it will come close to 5000 Crores only.The biggest damage to the Nation was the Delay in implementing and allowing the veterans to lay on streets.All this could have been avoided if implementation was faster.
ReplyDeleteThe payment made for 16,08,343 vets / family is Rs2,498.48 Crores. Pro-rated to about 25 lakh vets / family total amount will be under Rs 4000 Crores. Where did we get the number of Rs 8000 / 10,000 crores
ReplyDeleteKhade mejao 125 crore aabadhi hai
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the so called IAS babus do not know the fundamental statistics
ReplyDeleteOne of my brothers, Ex JWO (Gp X) Ravindra Nath who retired from IAF after putting 21 yrs service has brought to my notice a grave anomaly in his basic pension fixation under OROP that all JWOs of Gp X ranging from 15 to 21.5 years of service were bracketed together to draw basic pension of Rs 10480/-which is grossly unfair. This means that a JWO with 15 Yrs and 21.5 yrs will be drawing equal pension with out the advantage of adding yearly increments.Remember, OROP Pension have been calculated on live data of serving soldiers. Col Vijaya Kumar (Rtd)
ReplyDeleteSir,In OROP table NK from 15 to 24 years of service basic pension given is rs7170.No incriments at all.What it means.There are many anomalies like this in the table. Who will rectify it.Only God knows.
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