Notification of OROP

Notification of OROP

204 Shri Neeraj Shekhar

Will the Minister of DEFENCE be pleased to satate :-

(a) whether Government has notified the One Rank One Pension (OROP) for ex-army servicemen and their widows, if so, the details thereof;

(b) whether there are dissatisfaction among the personnel with regard to faulty implementation of OROP, if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether a number of ex-armymen have returned their medals in protest of diluted OROP notification, if so, the details thereof; and

(d) the response of Government thereto?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a) to (d): Government has issued orders for implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) on 07.11.2015.

Certain ex-servicemen associations have been demanding for changes in methodology for fixation of pension, periodicity of its revision, coverage of future PMR cases etc.

The Government has decided to appoint a Judicial Committee to look into anomalies, if any, arising out of implementation of OROP.

Source: RAJYA SABHA