More than two-thirds of the Ex-Servicemen have been paid the OROP arrears
OROP Arrears Payment in Record Time
The Government of India which
accords utmost importance to the welfare of Ex-Servicemen, has kept its
promise with regard to the historic decision taken on 05 September 2015
to implement the more than four decades old demand of Ex-Servicemen for
One Rank One Pension (OROP), by ensuring that payments have begun to the
concerned in record time.
Orders had been issued with
regard to this historic decision, through a notification on 07 November
2015 by the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (ESW) of the Ministry of
Defence.
Then within just three months of
the issue of these orders, the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
(ESW) brought out detailed OROP tables on 03 February 2016, which are
also available on their website www.desw.gov.in. The 101 tables in these
implementation orders contain revised pension of different ranks and
categories. In the past implementation of CSC-2012 and 6th CPC had taken
a longer time.
More than two-thirds of the
Ex-Servicemen have now been paid the OROP arrears. Payments have now
reached the accounts of 13.02 lakh pensioners amounting to about Rs.
2,293 crore. This amount has been released through Defence Pension
Disbursing Offices (DPDOs), the State Bank of India (SBI) and the Punjab
National Bank (PNB).
The details are as follows:-
As on March 17, the DPDOs have released an amount of about Rs. 606 crore to about 3.20 lakh defence personnel.
The SBI has as released upto
March 17 an amount of Rs. 1,337 crore to 7.75 lakh pensioners which
includes Family Pension cases. The PNB has released as on March 17, an
amount of about Rs. 350 crore to about 2.07 lakh pensioners which
includes Family Pension cases.
Other Banks who have also been
assigned the task of disbursement of revised defence pension to
Ex-Servicemen have been directed to complete the process of payment
latest by March end.
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