MUST WATCH THIS ! PLEASING TO EYES --LIFE OF FLOWERS

PLEASE CLICK HERE

Government committed to armymen's welfare: AK Antony

Published: Saturday, Dec 8, 2012, 18:01 IST | Updated: Saturday, Dec 8, 2012, 18:02 IST Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI

AK Antony DNA   Defence Minister AK Antony on Saturday said government is committed to the welfare of defence personnel and ex-servicemen. Addressing the "Army Mela' at nearby Pangode military camp,Antony said the pension of ex-servicemen would be revised with a total commitment of Rs2300 crore. "Order in this regard would be issued next month",Antony said, adding, in 2009, after he took over as Defence Minister, the pension for ex-servicemen was revised with a total outlay of Rs2300 crore.This increase happened after the sixth pay commission recommendations," he said. Stating that it was the government's responsibility to look after the welfare of defence personnel and ex-servicemen, Antony said peace prevailed in the country due to dedication and vigilance of 'our armed forces' to protect boundaries. "Centre not only extends assistance to armed forces in imparting training and equipping it with modern weapons, but also equally gave importance of personnel's welfare," he said. Antony said Indian defence has 13 lakh personnel and out of this 11 lakh were in the Army. Besides this,India has Coast Guard and Territorial Army strength of 23 lakh and 14 lakh NCC cadres who assist defence forces in times of need, he said. Antony also said India was able to overcome various crises since Independence mainly due to the strength and dedication of defence forces. The Army has organised an exhibition of ammunition and other armaments as part of the mela titled 'Know your Army'. The army personnel also displayed their adventurous skills during the occasion,which witnessed huge public participation. Union Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor, top South-Indian actor and Lt Col in Territorial Army Mohanlal were among those present. GOC in Chief Southern Army Command Lt General A K Singh welcomed the audience. (Source-DNA)

Decision on one rank one pension scheme

Thursday, December 06, 2012

This information was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence Shri.Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question by Shri.Prakash Keshav Javadkar in the Rajya Sabha on 5.12.2012.

Government has always been sensitive to the demand of One Rank One Pension. Keeping in view the spirit of the demand, several Commissions / Committees were appointed. Though the demand was not accepted, their recommendations resulted in improving the pension of past pensioners.

A Committee was set up under the Chairmanship of the Cabinet Secretary in June, 2009. The Committee went into the demand and other related issues. It made seven recommendations aimed at narrowing the gap between earlier and current pensions. This has benefited about 12 lakh retired PBORs / Officers at an annual cost of Rs.2200/- crores approximately.

Government constituted another Committee in July, 2012, headed by Cabinet Secretary for looking into the pay and pension related issues of relevance to Defence service personnel and Ex-servicemen. The Committee submitted its report. Its recommendations have been accepted by the Government and are in the process of implementation.

Substantial improvements have been made in the pensions of Armed Forces Personnel after 01.01.2006. However, improvement of pensionary benefits is an ongoing process.

 

(Source - Central govt employees news)

Rs.2300 Crore Pension Package – Defence Ministry convened meeting to implement enhance pension to ex-servicemen before 31st Dec 2012

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Rs.2300 crore Ex-Servicemen Pension Package – To be implemented by this month end

Defence minister Mr.A K Antony, convened a meeting to look into Pension related issues of Ex-Service Men. The following decisions were taken in the meeting

• 50% of the pension of soldiers who are “invalidated out” or are “war casualties” should be disbursed immediately, pending the completion of retirement/medical board formalities.
• The recently announced Rs 2,300 crore pension package for ex-servicemen should be issued by this month-end (Dec-2012).

                    The disbursement of the enhanced pensions should begun by March 31st 2013.

• Minister of state for defence Jitendra Singh will hold a meeting with different banks to bring “uniformity” in the disbursement of pensions.
• Officers to ensure “faster disposal” of decisions taken by the Armed Forces Tribunal.

These decisions have been taken to pacify Ex-servicemen as they are unhappy that One Rank One Pension demand made by them was not implemented by Govt.
(Source: G Connect blog)

Amendment in Ex-Servicemen Rules : Notification issued by MOD

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Notification amendments in Ex-servicemen(Re-employment in Central Civil Services & Posts) Rules,2012.

(To be published In the Gazette of India, Extraordinary Part II, Section 3 Sub section (i)]

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Gnevances and Pensions

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi. dated the 4th October. 2012

G.S.R. - In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution, the President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Ex-servicemen (Re—employment In Central Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979, namely :-

(1) These rules may be called the Ex-servicemen (Re-employment in Central Civil Services and Posts) Amendment Rules, 2012,
(2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette,.

2. In the Ex-servicemen (Re-employment in Central Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979

(I) In rule 2, for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:

(c) An ex-serviceman means a person -

(i) who has served in any rank whether as a combatant or non combatant in the Regular Army, Navy and Air Force of the Indian Union, and

(a) who either has been retired or relieved or discharged from such service whether at his own request or being relieved by the employer after earning his or her pension; or

(b) who has been relieved from such service on medical grounds attributable to military service or circumstances beyond his control and awarded medical or other disability pension; or

(c) who has been released from such service as a result of reduction in establishment.;

or

(ii) who has been released from such service after completing the specific period of engagement, otherwise than at his own request, or by way of dismissal, or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency and has been given a gratuity; and includes personnel of the Territorial Army, namely, pension holders for continuous embodied service or broken spells of qualifying service:

or

(iii) personnel of the Army Postal Service who are part of Regular Army and retired from the Army Postal Service without reversion to their parent service with pension, or are released from the Army Postal service on medical grounds attributable to or aggravated by military service or circumstance beyond their control and awarded medical or other disability pension;

or

(iv) Personnel, who were on deputation in Army Postal Service for more than six months prior to the 14th April, 1987:

or

(v) Gallantry award winners of the Armed forces including personnel of Territorial Army;

or

(vi) Ex-recruits boarded out or relieved on medical ground and granted medical disability pension

(2) for rule 3. the following rule shall be substituted, namely:-

"3. Application - These rules shall apply to all the Central Civil Services and Posts and the posts upto the level of Assistant Commandant in all paramilitary forces".

(3) in rule 4.-

(a) for sub-rule(I), the following sub-rule shall be substituted. namely:-

"(i) Reservation of vacancies: — Ten per cent of the vacancies in the posts upto of the level of the Assistant Commandant in all para-military forces, ten per cent of the vacancies in Group ‘C’ posts: and twenty per cent of the vacancies in Group ‘D’ posts, including permanent vacancies filled initially on a temporary basis and temporary vacancies which are likely to be made permanent or are likely to continue for three months and more, to be filled by direct recruitment in any year shall be reserved for being filled by exservicemen."

(b) for sub-rule(2), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:

"(2) The Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Class candidates selected against the vacancies reserved for ex-servicemen shall be adjusted against vacancies reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes arid Other Backward Classes,respectively:

Provided that if a the Scheduled Caste or the Scheduled Tribe or the Other Backward Class ex-servicemen is selected against the vacancy reserved for ex-servicemen and vacancy reserved for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes or the Other Backward Classes, as the case may be, is not available to adjust such ex serviceman, he shall be adjusted in future against the next available vacancy reserved for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes or the Other Backward Classes, as the case may be".

(c) after sub-rule (3), the following proviso shall be substituted namely:

"Provided that in case of recruitment to the vacancy reserved for Ex-servicemen in the Central Para Military Forces, the reserved vacancy remained unfilled due to non-availability of eligible or qualified candidates, the same shall be filled by candidates from non-ex-servicemen category”.

(4) for rule 5, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:

"(5) (a) For appointment to vacancies in Group B(Non-Gazetted), Group C or Group D posts in Central Government, an ex-serviceman shall be allowed to deduct the period of actual military service from his actual age and if the resultant age does not exceed the maximum age limit prescribed for the post for which he is seeking appointment by more than three years, he shall be deemed to satisfy the condition regarding age limit.

(b) For appointment to any vacancy in Group A and Group B services or posts filled by direct recruitment otherwise than on the results of an Open All India Competitive Examination, the upper age limit shall be relaxed by the length of military service increased by three years in the case of ex-servicemen and commissioned officers including Emergency Commissioned Officers or Short Service Commissioned Officers.

(c) For appointment to any vacancy in Group A and Group B services or posts filled by direct recruitment on the results of an All India Competitive Examination, the ex-servicemen and Commissioned Officers including Emergency commissioned Officers or S S C Officers who have rendered atleast five years military services and have been released -,

(i) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment due to be completed within one year) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or

(ii) on account of physical disability attributable to military service or on invalidment, shall be allowed maximum relaxation of five years in the upper age limit.

[File No.36034/I/06-Estt(SCT)]

sd/-

(Manoj Joshi)

Joint Secretary to the Government of India

Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section3, Sub- section (1), vide number G.S.R 1530, dated the 15th December, 1979 and subsequently amended by G.S.R. 973 dated 27th October, 1986, and was last amended by notification No. G.S.R.333(E), dated 27th March, 1986.

(Source: www.ccis.nic.in)

UPDATE ON VETERAN RALLY/OROP ETC.

Dec 2 2012, 3:10 PM

BCV:

 

Dear Colleagues, 

The planned IESM rally was held at Jantar Mantar On December 01. We had advertised the rally widely and great hype had been built up. Unfortunately the attendance of around 3000 was much below expectations. Thankfully, the enthusiasm of those present did overcome the lack of numbers to some extent. As a policy of gradual escalation a vehicle with medals mounted on it has been prepared and is scheduled to go around Delhi and NCR during the coming days. The vehicle was parkedThe vehicle was parked on site and drew great appreciation from all. There were many enthusiastic speakers that took the mike and spoke their mind on government’s repeated stonewalling our demand of OROP. Unfortunately, this upset our time schedule and we had to call off our planned march – along with the medal vehicle – on roads around Connaught Place. On 02 December was the General Body meeting and the elections. There was no voting and all the old members of the Governing Body have been returned unopposed. Colonel KK Malhotra, Hony Captains Bhim Singh and Nagender Singh are the new members of the team. The General Body reaffirmed its resolve to continue with the struggle till our demands are met.

  The pension enhancement coming out of the of Rs 2300 Crore that the Govt has sanctioned is expected to be announced by 15 December 2012.

 

(e-MAIL SENT By Gen Raj Kadyan to BCV on chatroll of Indian military....blog)

Fixation of Pay to Officers of Armed Forces without deduction of Rank Pay with effect from 01.01.1986

Based on Kerala High Cour Order dated 05.10.1998, Ministry of Defence has ordered that affected officers of the armed forces in conformity with the orders of the Kerala High Court order dated 5.10.1998 in the case of Maj A.K.Dhanapalan versus Union of India & other should be given revised pay without deduction of rank with effect from 01.01.1986

=========================================================================

No. 34(6)/2012-D(Pay/Services)

Government of India

Ministry of Defence

New Delhi, the 26th November, 2012

To
The Chief of Army Staff The Chief of Air Staff The Chief of Naval Staff
Subject: Implementation of Supreme Court order dated 4.9.2012 in IA No. 9 of 2010 in Transfer Petition ( C) No. 56 of 2007— Union of India and others versus N.K.Nair & others, etc,etc.
Sir,

In compliance of the Supreme Court order dated 4.9.2012 on the above subject. I am directed to convey that the Government of India has decided to refix the pay without deduction of rank pay w.e.f. 1.1.1986 in respect of the affected officers of the armed forces in conformity with the orders of the Kerala High Court order dated 5.10.1998 in the case of Maj A.K.Dhanapalan versus Union of India & others.

2. Instructions regarding the modalities and methodology of payment to the affected officers of the armed forces and the provisioning of funds for the same are being issued separately in consultation with Service Hqrs, CGDA, Defence (Finance) and Ministry of Finance.

3. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence (Finance) vide their Dy. No.5554/FA/DS dated 23.11.2012.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(Praveen Kumar)

Director (AG.I)

================================================================

(SOURCE- G-CONNECT POSTED ON 28.11.12)