EXCHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE ON CoS REPORT APPROVAL BY GOVT

1.       The following extracts of correspondence is posted for the information of all Veteran Brothers:-

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Dear Praveen,

1.       I fully understand and appreciate your institutional loyalties. While these certainly are concessions, but none of these is even remotely related to OROP. The report does not touch equating pre 1.1.2006 with post 1.1.2006 pensioners which is the essence of OROP.

2.       While you may be perfectly justified in highlighting these as UPA concessions to the Ex Servicemen, grouping these under the heading of OROP unfortunately amounts to misleading the pensioners.

Best regards,

Lt Gen (Emeritus) Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Chairman IESM

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Letter from Praveen

1.         I am forwarding below an extract from the recommendation of the committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary in respect of OROP which have been approved recently by the UPA Government.

Extract

         On the basis of MoD’s proposal and some initiatives of the Finance Ministry/Cabinet Secretariat the following have been approved by Government:

(i) Inclusion of classification allowance for PBORs from 1.1.06.

(ii) Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from 1.1.06

(iii) Revision of Lt. General Pension after carving out a separate pay scale for them.

[These proposals emanate from Sixth CPC’s Report and are to be implemented w.e.f. 1.1.06].

(iv) Bringing parity between pension of pre and post 10.10.97 PBOR pensioners

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

[These are new concessions aimed at improving the pension of PBORs, hence the benefit would be given prospectively].

(vi) Broadbanding of percentage of disability/ war injury pension for pre-1.1.96 pensioners from a prospective date.

(vii) Removal of cap on war injury element of pension since the existing cap denies full benefit of war injury element. This shall be effected prospectively.

            The UPA government deserves our grateful thanks for approving the recommendation on OROP. I shall be grateful if you could kindly give the above wide publicity and email this to all Ex-Servicemen in contact with you.

With regards.

Capt Praveen Davar (Retd)

Secretary, AICC

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Demand and                                                              Reality
Ex-servicemen                                                           Government

The demand  orOROP                                               Stalls proposal
Employment in paramilitary forces                                No response

National Commission                                                    No response

Representation on welfare committees                            No response

MoD closes gap of pre and post 1996 pensioners


(SOURCE : REPORT MY SIGNAL)

GIVING SOLDIERS A BETTER LIFE AFTER RETIREMENT : ARMY TO TIE UP WITH IGNOU

1.     To empower soldiers educationally and to provide them with an opportunity of a second career option after retirement, the Indian Army has come out with a plan according to which soldiers who join service after school can study for a degree in market driven courses.

 2.        The Indian Army will tie up with the Indira Gandhi National Open University to set up community colleges on the pattern of the US system of community colleges in its cantonments and other defence establishments to impart education in market-driven courses and soft skill programmes.

3.          The Army will sign an MoU with IGNOU on September 4 to give academic diploma or associate degree and graduation degree to soldiers, which is seen as a step towards empowering the soldier to live a life with dignity and confidence after retirement.

4.          The project named ‘Gyan Deep’ will benefit many of the 1.2 million soldiers of the Army. Nearly 50,000 trained soldiers retire every year from the army after an average of 15 years of service.

5.        “The jawans will be given BA, BBA, BSc and BCom degrees depending on their area of work,” a senior officer said. For soldiers who join after Class 10, the army will be organising bridge courses to bring them at par with those who have completed Class 12.

6.         The Army-IGNOU Community colleges will function as autonomous bodies conducting examinations and their courses are hitherto fore.

(SOURCE: By Praful Kumar Singh,September 3rd, 2009 - 6:21 pm ICT by ANI)-

A CASE FOR GRANT OF BONDED ALLOWANCE TO ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL

1. The Career in the Armed Forces, perhaps, ONE OF ITS KIND, is linked to Supreme Sacrifice during the course of its deployment in war or peace times. The extreme and exacting physical fitness of the prospective personnnel is the tough demand of the Armed Forces Training Institutes to keep them in physical/fighting fitness not only during the training but also throughout the career. Leave alone the deaths occuring at borders during wars of skirmishes with enemies or terrorists, the GOI, MOD specifically indemnifies themselves NOT LIABLE for any INJURIES/DEATH during the process of RECRUITMENT OR TRAINING at Military Training Institutes. Please login http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddbr6w4w_36j99kvtf6 for a very detailed article on this subject.

2. The GOI, on the recommendations of VI CPC had extended several benefits of the AF personnel on par basis , to the Civilian employees. But the GOI/6th CPC have conveniently ignored that the AF Personnel are subject to Army/AF/Navy Acts,(which are very Stringent) in addition to all other Laws of the Land. Thus, the DOUBLE RISKS of SUPREME SACRIFICE AND INACCECIBILITY to several rights available to their CG Employees to redress their grievances. The GOI is fully aware of AF Personnel's special working circumstances and, therefore, taken steps like Creation of a Separate Dept for Ex-SM afffairs in MOD, Formation of Armed Forces Tribunal to exclusively deal the legal cases, and agreeing to set up a Separate Pay Commission to them.

3. This Bond Remuneration to AF personnel may be granted at least @ Rates on par with that of @ 25% of basic pay granted to CG Employees working in NE Regions, w.e.f. 1.9.08, to be just and make good this deficiency, to AF Prsonnel.