1. All Veteran brothers are requested to go through this excellent article written by eminent writers on the subject, Shri N S Chakravarthy (ns_chak@yahoo.com) retired as a Senior Official in the Telecom Commission. S G Vombatkere (sgvombatkere@hotmail.com) retired at the rank of Major General
from the Indian Army.
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Sir , where is the order who increase the moral of jawans-The government has agreed to restore 70 per cent "pensionary weightage" to jawans, even as Defence chiefs on Thursday intensified efforts to get "anomalies" in the 6th Pay Commission notification removed.
ReplyDelete"The government has given in principle approval to reverting to the 70 per cent pensionary weightage, as demanded by the Services, overruling the 50 per cent recommended by the Central Pay Commission (CPC), providing much-needed relief just before this Diwali," top Defence Ministry sources told reporters here.
Espousing their cause, the Services chiefs today apprised Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and officials in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on the issues.
Earlier, jawans used to get 70 per cent of their last drawn pay as pension calculated on the basis of their 10-month average salary before retirement.
Under the CPC notification, the jawans, who form the backbone of the Armed Forces but retire at a relatively young age, are to be provided with the option of lateral entry in to the Central police forces and paramilitary and in return, they would get reduced "pensionary weightage" of 50 per cent.
In order to resolve this issue, Defence Minister A K Antony had written a strong letter to both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram, particularly batting for the jawan's pensionary benefits, reduced by the CPC.
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ReplyDeleteI read a PIB news wh I reproduce here-
Sunday,4 October 2009 MUMBAI THIRUVANANTHAPURAM KOLKATA HYDERABAD
CHENNAI BANGALORE AIZAWL
PIB News.
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2009
Ministry of Defence
"Pay arrears before Diwali", Antony's gift to the Armed Forces
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18:47 IST
The Defence Minister Shri AK Antony has stressed that all men in the Armed
Forces must get all their pay arrears relating to the Sixth Central Pay
Commission well in time before Diwali. Addressing the Defence Accounts Day
function here today, Shri Antony commended the officials of the Controller
General of Defence Accounts for adopting computerisation and speeding-up the
salary computation systems.
"One of the major challenges before you all is to render prompt, efficient
and hassle free pensionary services to nearly 2 million Ex-servicemen and
other retired Defence Personnel", Shri Antony said. The Defence Minister
called upon the Defence Accounts officials to implement optimally the
austerity measures announced recently by the Government. "The Prime Minister
has underlined the importance of service delivery mechanisms", he added.
Pointing out that the Defence outlay has been growing around 11 per cent per
annum over the last few years, Shri Antony called upon the Defence Accounts
Department to ensure fair utilisation of the revenue resources and capital
spending for the Defence sector. The Defence Minister later released a
vision document for the department. He applauded the department for its
valuable contributions in rationalising and simplifying the complicated
processes and procedures in the Defence Procurement Manual - 2009.
Earlier, the Controller General of Defence Accounts Smt Bulbul Ghosh
announced that a pilot project for payment of salaries to all Personnel
Below Officer Rank (PBORs) irrespective of their place of posting and
location of their drawing branches through e-payment has been successful and
it would be implemented shortly across the country. Speaking on the
occasion, the Secretary Defence Finance Smt Indu Liberhan emphasized on the
performance audit appraisal system and said though the challenge is
daunting, we have to rise to the occasion to fulfil the mandate given to the
department.
The Defence Accounts Department (DAD), with its 998 offices spread over 258
locations across the country, handles an annual budget of Rs 1,81,306 crores
(2009-10), which accounts for 26% of the total non-plan outlay of the
Government of India.
It provides accounting services to the Ministry of Defence, the three
Services, and allied organizations like Ordnance Factories, CSD, Military
Farms, DRDO, Border Roads Organisation (BRO), Defence Estates, Coast Guard
and NCC. Apart from this, officers from the Indian Defence Accounts Service
(IDAS), including lady officers, are deployed with the Indian troops on UN
Peacekeeping Missions in various troubled spots of the world where they
provide valuable financial management, accounting and payment support.
Samir/DM/PK/RAJ
Is the statement that the 26% of Non Plan component of the India's annual Budget is that of Defence ? ANY COMMENTS?