THE FOLLOWING IS POSTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF INFORMATION OF ALL VETERAN BROTHERS:-
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Tribune News ServiceChandigarh, December 1
Some Defence Pension Disbursing Offices (DPDOs) are refusing to release pension in accordance with new scales till the time they are provided new computer programmes by the Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA).Departmental reply to a query under the RTI, which was produced during hearing of a case before the Chandigarh Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT), states that the new pension would be fixed on receipt of revised computerised programme from the CGDA as no manual revisions by the DPDO office is authorised.While majority of veterans drawing their pension through banks are getting their benefits as per the revised scale post-Sixth Pay Commission implementation, those dependent on DPDOs are still getting lesser pension.Taking up the case of an 80-year old widow, Swaran Kaur, the AFT has ordered that her family pension be revised within two months. The AFT also directed a representative of the Controller of Defence Accounts to be present before it on the next date of hearing to explain the inordinate delay in revising pensions.Swaran Kaur’s husband, Santok Singh, a World War-II veteran had died in December 2006. He was getting pension in accordance with Fifth Pay Commission rates. In November 2008, Presidential sanction was accorded for raising the scales of pension in accordance with the Sixth Pay Commission.Under revised rates, the pension of similarly placed individuals was raised from Rs 1,275 per month to Rs 3,500 per month.Between November 2008 to August 2009, the petitioner and her son visit the DPDO office regularly, but the rates of pension in her case are not revised nor is she paid arrears.In September 2009, the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts also writes to the DPDO concerned, asking him to act in accordance with the revised scales and make the payment to the widow. However, her pension still remained unrevised.
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(SOURCE ; E-MAIL Exservicemen Joint Action Front Sanjha MorchA)
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