7th Pay Commission – Anomaly Committee of 7CPC to hears grievances of Defence Personnel

To hear the grievances of the defence services related to allowances recommended by the 7th Pay Commission, the Anomaly Committee on allowances constituted for the 7th Pay Commission has provided for a direct hearing.

Perhaps the first time that any such opportunity has been provided to hear the grievances of the defence services, as per reports, this was provided recently by the Committee in a positive backdrop and the Ministry of Defence is in full support of the views of the defence services.

In a writ petition filed by a serving officer, Col Preet Pal Singh Grewal, according to The Indian Express, the Committee has entertained the views of the three services in compliance with the interim directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. As per Ministry of Defence sources quoted by IE, the petition put forward many issues related to allowances of defence services in front of the Committee.

One such issue affecting allowances of defence services is the discriminatory hardship allowance. As per the provision of the Discriminatory hardship allowance, an IPS officer is eligible to get approximately Rs. 55,000 as hardship allowance in Leh but under the same scheme, a military official is entitled to only for about Rs. 10000. The same allowance states that a civil servant is entitled to Rs. 55,000 in Shillong, the defence officials were not given any special allowance.

The petition further pointed out that the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) were extended many beneficial military allowances over the years, which was not applicable to the defence officers. In some cases these benefits seemed more beneficial to the CAPF than those provided to the defence officials.

In addition to this, many organisations, be it the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Rapid Action Force (RAF) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) were paid allowances which were calculated on the percentage of pay. But in the case of defence services, it was paid based on fixed slabs.

The petition also informed the committee that even though the 7th Central Pay Commission were in favour of providing House Rent Allowances to personnel, except for those commissioned officers staying at barracks and due to administrative or functional requirements, the HRA was not extended to commissioned officers who were forced to stay i Officer’s Mess premises due to same reasons.

The petitioner stated that the views of all stakeholders must be heard before the report is submitted. Reportedly, the Colonel petitioned as forming associations in the armed forces is prohibited and this hearing provided an alternative institutional mechanism where views of the defence establishment could be put across to resolve such anomalies.

As per reports, the report will be submitted once the assembly elections in the five states are complete, although the Anomaly Committee is almost done with the job.

(Source: India.com / G Connect)

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All pensioners of the Indian Air Force including the ones in receipt of family pensions may contact the Directorate of Air Veterans (DAV) on the following telephone numbers:- (a) RETIRED OFFICERS : 011-2568 3170 / 2568 3627  (b) FAMILY PENSIONERS (OFFICERS) : 011-2569 4815/2568 7415  (c) RETIRED AIRMEN & FAMILY PENSION: 011-2568 3351  The DAV email address is: dav@iaf.nic.in  (SOURCE : FB A/C OF Jayvant Walawalkar)

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Ur cell phone number conveys your age.  We dont know who invented this formula. 

It is wonderful and un-believabie.

Whether it is right or wrong you can try with your cell phone number with the following procedure and explain the mathematical values

1) Take last digit of your cell number

2) Multiply that number by 2

3) Add 5 to the number arrived at

4) Multiply that number by 50

5) Add 1766 to the number you got

6) Subtract your year of birth from the number so obtained

7) You will get 3 digits number. 

The first is your cell phone number's last digit 

And other two numbers are your age.

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Soon a formula would emerge which 

shall show your OROP???

(SOURCE : FROM GP MAIL OF COL YC MEHRA (RETD)

POLICY ON DIGNIFIED LAST RITES TO AIR VETERANS

(Source- FB post of Thakur Praveen Kumar, Air Vet)

PM Modi issues directives to set up new tri-services commands::Under the new commands, resources of all the three services would be pooled together under the command of a single officer.

February 10, 2017 | UPDATED 19:42 IST

Seeking to bring in major reforms in the country's defence forces, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the Ministry of Defence to initiate steps towards creating theatre commands for the military.

Under a theatre commands, all the troops and resources of the three forces - Army, Navy and Air Force - would be combined and put under the command of one officer, who would be from either of the three serivces and who would determine their use.

At the combined comman ders conference headed by the prime minister, the Integrated Defence Staff under the Defence Ministry was asked to prepare a roadmap for theatre commands and new initiatives would be taken by this year-end, senior Defence Ministry sources told India Today.

HIGHLIGHTS

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  PM Modi asks MoD to initiate creating new theatre commands.
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  Each command who have resources of all three services.
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  One commanding officer would determine how to use the pooled resources.

APPOINTMENT OF NEW FOUR STAR GEN ALSO BEING CONSIDERED

The three services had made a detailed presentation to the prime minister at the conference, which was held recently. As part of defence reforms, the government is also appointing a new four star general to looking after the issues related to three services.

All these structures of proposed command would be provided in the roadmap by the military officers under the guidance of political leadership the sources stated.

At the conference, the IAF had raised questions over the command structure and equipment integration under the theatre commands but everybody recognised the need for creating new military structures.

Also read: PM Modi to be briefed about creating a new top post for armed forces 

Also read: Military to propose setting up US-style unified commands

(Source- India Today)

GOOD NEWS : MoD posts to be manned by armed services identified

New Delhi, February 10

Almost 17 years after the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) spoke about integration of the armed forces personnel with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the ministry now wants subject experts from the three services on crucial posts presently manned by the bureaucracy.

This is part of the ongoing integration-cum-restructuring exercise in the MoD. The exercise has four clear dimensions—right-sizing of manpower to cut down growing costs of salaries and pensions; integrating the services with the MoD; speeding up procurement of new weapons and balancing the budget to provide more for firepower.

Sources said an internal committee of the MoD today submitted its observations on what all could be implemented towards right-sizing suggested by the high-powered Lt Gen DB Committee. A report of the Shekatkar committee was submitted to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on December 21 last year. It talks about enhancing the combat potential of the armed forces and re-balancing the defence expenditure. 

It has recommended a series of measures to trim, redeploy and integrate manpower under the MoD to have an effective military. The committee has laid down a path to reduce expenses by Rs 25,000 crore over the next five-years.

For integration of the services, the MoD has identified several posts at the middle level in the ministry that can be manned by officers from the three armed forces—the Army, the IAF and the Navy. “These people will be subject and domain experts on equipment,” said a senior functionary.

On speeding up procurement, yesterday a committee headed by Dr Pritam Singh (former Director IIM-Lucknow) submitted its report on setting up of a defence procurement organisation. This will shorten the lengthy procurement process that takes years to identify what all is needed. 

(Source : The Tribune)

Court appeals against defence employees to be curbed by Man Aman Singh Chhina

Chandigarh | Published:February 10, 2017 11:20 pm

In a major move with far reaching consequences on litigation involving soldiers and other defence employees, the Defence Minister has accepted the recommendation of an expert panel wherein it was provided that further appeals would not be filed by the Ministry of Defence on all subjects which have attained finality at the High Courts or Supreme Court.

The Committee comprising former Adjutant General Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal (retd), former Military Secretary Lt Gen Richard Khare (retd), Punjab and Haryana High Court Lawyer Maj Navdeep Singh, former Judge Advocate General (JAG) Maj Gen T Parshad and Kargil disabled veteran Maj DP Singh had strongly deprecated the tendency of the Defence Ministry, long known to be a chronic litigant, of filing individual appeals against court and tribunal decisions in favour of employees on the pretext of the judgements being ‘against government policy’. 

The committee had noted that an unexplained urge was being shown by government officers to litigate who wanted to file multiple cases even where the law had already been settled, with a hope that in some odd stray case, a judgement would be rendered against an employee which could then be flaunted to deny benefits to similarly placed employees.

The committee had noted that the ego and prestige based approach reflected how officers dealing with the subject were unable to come to terms that cases had been decided against their stand. The panel had stated that there should be ‘quietus’ on issues which have attained finality at the HC or SC.

Accepting the recommendation, the Defence Minister is also learnt to have approved another related suggestion which additionally covers civilian employees wherein noting that the effort of the system was to wear down employees by filing multiple appeals, the panel had recommended that the government should gracefully accept court verdicts as far as possible and appeals should be an exception and not the rule. Challenges of tribunal orders will be made in the HC only in exceptional cases and appeals undertaken in the Supreme Court restricted to the rarest of rare cases. The Committee had noted that the culture of appealing must cease and officers should ‘concentrate upon improving governance and administration rather than waging a litigative war against their own junior employees who have limited means’.

In its strongly worded observations, the committee had also noted that the official establishment was indulging in litigation of ‘luxury’ and that litigation should not be treated as a war or a sport which must be won at all costs. The panel had expressed surprise that instead of focussing on reducing appeals and faster implementation of orders as propounded by the Defence Minister, certain officers had presented views during their depositions on ways and means to file “faster appeals” which ran counter to the very intentions of the government.

When contacted, Maj Navdeep Singh, who was a member of the Committee, called it a “much needed reform” but cautioned that the “political executive must ensure its implementation in letter and spirit and must not allow the legal-official ecosystem to hold political will to ransom”.

(Source- Indian express)