INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL 20 Oct 2015

INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL 20 Oct 2015 INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL Dear Veterans Letter to RM and three chiefs dated 20 Oct 2015 is enclosed herewith for your information and widest circulation please. With regards, Yours Sincerely, Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd) Advisor United Front of Ex Servicemen & Chairman IESM Mobile: 9312404269, +0124 4110570 Email: satbirsm@gmail.com ========================================================================================== URGENT ATTENTION OF RM 20 Oct 2015 Shri Manohar Parrikar Hon’ble Raksha Mantri 104, South Block, New Delhi INORDINATE DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP) AS PER ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THE HON’BLE RAKSHA MANTRI TO DEFENCE PERSONNEL Hon’ble Raksha Mantri 1. Further to our letters dated 18 Sep 15, 20 Sep 15 and 30 Sep 2015. 2. With concern, we wish to bring to your notice that the Govt Notification for the Implementation of OROP has not yet been issued. During the announcement made by you on 05th Sep 15, you had assured the country that Govt Notification will be issued within a month. Subsequently, you stated that it would be issued before Navratri which started with effect from 13 Oct 15. Once again, you have changed the goal post by stating that the OROP Notification will be issued after the Bihar Elections. 3. Mr Raksha Mantri, this is a serious cause of concern to us since we the defence personnel have been trained to operate on time bound schedules. Imagine! If the responses at the border, in counterinsurgency operations or during the War, are delayed at various levels of Military in a similar manner as the MoD is now procrastinating in the issue of Govt Notification of the implementation of OROP. 4. We, the defence fraternity are anguished at the apathy and neglect being demonstrated by the Govt. 5. Mr Raksha Mantri, you are also aware that there are seven serious shortcomings in the statement made by you on 05thSep 2015 as brought out by us in our above quoted letters. In case the same is persisted by the Govt, it will not be OROP. In fact, it will totally kill the approved definition of OROP. 6. You are also aware that the Prime Minister himself had assured the soldiers that actual OROP would be implemented for the Defence Personnel. It is not Good Governance that after the Scheme has been sanctioned by the Govt as a concept in perpetuity eighteen months ago, it has not yet been implemented. This is also betrayal of faith. 7. We urge you to issue the Govt Notification for the implementation of OROP after the removal of all seven shortcomings already pointed out in our above quoted letters at the earliest. 8. We also are aghast at the recent statement on OROP made by one of your Colleague Minister, Col Rajayavardhan Rathore who had also once upon a time worn the uniform of a soldier. He also seems to have forgotten the Chetwode credo enunciated at the IMA Central Hall. 9. Mr Raksha Mantri, any Country which does not respect its soldiers is doomed to fail. Today is the 127th day of relay Hunger Strike at Jantar Mantar and other locations in the Country. We have not been considered worth a meeting to address our issue of OROP. I request for an urgent meeting with you at the earliest, which may please be granted. With regards, Yours Sincerely, Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd) Advisor United Front of Ex Servicemen & Chairman IESM Mobile: 9312404269, +0124 4110570 Email: satbirsm@gmail.com Copy to :- General Dalbir Singh PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC Chief of the Army Staff Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Army) South Block, New Delhi-110011 You are requested to jointly and strongly take up the issue with the Govt. Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC Chief of the Air Staff & Chairman Chiefs of Staffs Committee (CoSC) Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Air Force) Vayu Bhawan, New Delhi 110011 Our request as above. Admiral R K Dhowan, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADCChief of the Naval Staff Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence (Navy) South Block, New Delhi -110011 (Source- Via e-mail)