RAJYA SABHA QUESTIONS - WRITTEN REPLY OF DEFENCE MINISTER ON OROP FORMULA

Thursday, December 10, 2009

A committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary to look into the issue of One Rank One Pension and other related matters. After considering all aspects of the issue, the Committee did not find it administratively feasible to recommend One Rank One Pension, as such. However, keeping in mind the spirit of the demand several other recommendations to substantially improve pensionary benefits of personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) and Commissioned Officers have been made, which have been accepted by the Government:-

i) Inclusion of Classification Allowance for PBOR from Jan 01, 2006.

ii) Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from Jan 01, 2006.

iii) Revision of Lt Gen pension after carving out a separate pay scale for them.

iv) Bringing parity between pension of pre and post October 10, 1997 PBOR pensions.

v) Further improving PBOR pensions based on award of GOM, 2006.

vi) Broad banding of percentage of disability/war injury pension for pre Jan 01, 2006 disability/war injury pensioners.

vii) Removal of cap on war injury element of pension in the case of disabled pensioners belonging to Category ‘E’.

The recommendations at (i) and (ii) stand implemented by issue of Government letter dated October 30, 2009. Average hike in pension of Ex-servicemen of the three forces of Indian Defence will be known only after all the recommendations of the Committee have been implemented.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in written reply to Shri Prakash Javadekar and Shri Parimal Nathwani in Rajya Sabha today.
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- PCDA ISSUED CIRCULAR 428 D/D IN R/O ITEM (iii)

- MOD ORDER D/D 19.1.2010 ISSUED IN R/0 ITEM NO. (vi) AND (vii) ABOVE. 

- ORDERS ON ITEMS (iv) AND (v) ARE NOT YET ISSUED.
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THE 19.1.2010 ORDER IS POSTED BELOW FOR INFORMATION AND NECESSARY ACTION BY ALL AFFECTED VET. BROTHERS, AS PER THE APPENDIX.:-
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No.10 (01)/D (Pen/Pol)/2009/Vol.II

Government of India, Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
New Delhi

Dated 19th Jan, 2010.

To, The Chief of the Army Staff
       The Chief of the Naval Staff
       The Chief of the Air Staff

Subject: Revision of Disability/War Injury Element of pension in respect of Armed Forces Officers and PBOR pensioners based on the recommendations of Cabinet Secretary Committee Report.

Sir,

The undersigned is directed to state that in order to consider various issues on pension of Armed Forces Pensioners, Government had set up a Committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary. The recommendations of the said Cabinet Secretary’s Committee on disability/war injury pension have been considered by the Government and the President is pleased to decide that with effect from 1.7.2009, the concept of broad banding of percentage of disability/war injury, as provided in Para 7.2 of this Ministry’s letter No 1(2)/97/D(Pen-C) dated 31.01.2001, shall be extended to Armed Forces Officers and PBOR who were invalided out of service prior to 1.1.1996 and are in receipt of disability/war injury pension as on 1.7.2009. Wherever, the disability being accepted as less than 20% at initial stage or subsequent stage on reassessment of disability, the same will continue to be disallowed and such cases will not be re-opened.

2. Further, the President is also pleased to decide that the cap on war injury pension with reference to emoluments last drawn in the case of disabled pensioners belonging to category ‘E’ of Para 4.1 of this Ministry’s above mentioned letter dated 31.1.2001, shall stand removed with effect from 1.7.2009 for Armed Forces Officers and PBOR pensioners. The provision contained in Para 8 of this Ministry’s letter No PC 1(2)97/D(Pen-C) Dated 16.5.2001, Para 10.1(b). of this Ministry letter No. 1(2)/97/D(Pen-C) dated 31.1.2001 and para 6.4 & 7.4 of this Ministry’s letter No. 16(6)/2008(2)/D(Pen/Pol) dated 5.5.2009, shall stand modified to that extent.

3. The disability/war injury element of pension in all such cases shall be recomputed accordingly under these orders by the Pension Sanctioning Authorities (PSAs) concerned for regulating payment under this Ministry’s letter No. 16(6)/2008(1)/ D(Pen/Policy) dated 4.5.2009 and letter No. 16(6)/2008(2)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 5.5.2009. For this purpose, each affected Armed Forces pensioner who is in receipt of disability/war injury element of pension as on 1.7.2009 will submit an application in the format enclosed as Annexure to this letter to PSAs concerned for revision of disability/war injury element of pension in terms of Para 1 and 2 above, as the case may be. Further implementation instructions to all concerned will be issued by PCDA(Pensions) Allahabad immediately on receipt of these orders.

4. Revision of war injury element of pension in respect of those who have been retired/discharged/ invalidated out of service on or after 1.7.2009 under category ‘E’ and in whose case war injury pension has already been notified in terms of this Ministry’s above mentioned letter dated 5.5.2009, will be carried out suo-moto by PSAs concerned by issue of corrigendum PPOs without any application from the concerned pensioners.

5. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their U.O.No. 51/Fin/Pen dated 08.01.2010.

Hindi version will follow.

Yours faithfully,
Sd xxx
(Harbans Singh)
Director (Pension Policy)
Encl: a/a

Copy to : - As per standard distribution list.
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Annexure
(Referred to Para 3 of MOD letter No 10(1)/2009/D(Pen/Policy) dated 19.1.2010)

FORM OF APPLICATION

(To be submitted IN TRIPLICATE by Armed Forces disability pensioners invalided out prior to 1.1.1996 and war injury pesnioners invalided out prior to 1.7.2009 and those released after 1.1.2008 but before 1.7.2009 and drawing disability/war injury element of pension as on 1.7.2009)

To (Pension Disbursing Authority)

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Sub: Recomputation of disability/war injury element of pension drawing pension as on 1.7.2009

Sir,

With a view to recompute my disability/war injury element of pension in terms of Ministry of Defence letter No 10(1)/2009/D(Pen/Policy) dated ........ 2009, the requisite particulars are given below : -

1. Name of the pensioner

2. Rank/group and Regt No/IC No

3. Date of Enrolment/Commission

4. Date of invalidment

5. Type of pension admissible

6. PPO No/Corr.PPO No under which
disability/war injury element of pension
on invalidment was notified.

7. Percentage of disability for which
disability/war injury element is being
drawn as on 1.7.2009

8. Amount of existing disability/war
injury element being drawn as on 1.7.2009

9. Amount of existing service element of
disability/war injury element being drawn
as on 1.7.2009

10. Pension Disbursing Agency (Paying
bank branch with SB/Current A/c No/
Treasury/DPDO/PAO

11. Name of applicant if the application is
being made on behalf of pensioner for
Life-Time Arrears (LTA)

12. Address of the family pensioner/applicant

Date:

(Signature of Pensioner/Applicant)

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PART II

(To be completed by the PDA of the pensioner)

The particulars mentioned above are verified with reference to pension account held and forwarded to the Record Office .............................................. (full address) in the case of PBOR and PSAs concerned ............................................... (full adress) in the case of commissioned officers.

No ......

Date .....



(SIGNATURE)

Rubber stamp of Pension Disbursing Authority

PART III

(To be completed by the Record office of the pensioner)

Verified and forwarded to the PSAs concerned .................................................

(full address)

No ......

Date .....

(SIGNATURE)

Rubber stamp of Pension Disbursing Authority

Address of Pension Sanctioning Authorities:
Army, Navy & Air Force Officers

1. The Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions)
Draupdighat, Allahabad – 211014.

For such Naval and Airforce officers who retired from service on or after 1.11.1985

2. The Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Navy)
2, Cooper Road, Mumbai – 400039.

3. Jt Controller of Defence Accounts (AF)
Subroto Park, Delhi Cantt – 110010.
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