NEW DELHI: One rank, one pension (OROP) for military veterans may be fine but the Seventh Central Pay Commission (CPC) has found that the number of senior officers, especially brigadiers and above, claiming disability pension witnessed a major jump after the payout for disability was increased by the last pay panel. Observing that there was "an upward trend in personnel superannuating with disability element at senior levels", while it had gone down for jawans and junior commissioned officers (JCOs), the pay panel recommended junking the regime implemented after the Sixth CPC and a return to the earlier, more equitable, "slab based system". There have been several cases in recent years of senior officers, which include even a former Army chief, taking the pension system for a ride by claiming higher disability pension. The pay commission questioned the rationale of awarding disability pension to officers as a percentage of their last pay drawn as it had resulted in high ranking officers, brigadiers and above, claiming disability since the payout went up. The pay panel found that officers retiring with disability in the armed forces increased from 13% in 2007-08 to 20% in 2013-14. On the other hand, jawans and JCOs were less affected by disability and a lesser number of them were drawing disability pension. The percentage of JCOs/other ranks retiring with disability actually decreased from 19% in 2007-08 to 7% in 2013-14. "Implementation of the Sixth CPC recommendations resulted in a substantial increase in the disability element. For 100% disability, at the minimum level, for jawans, it went up from Rs 1,550 to Rs 3,138, a little over double while at the highest level, among officers, it went up from Rs 2,600 to Rs 27,000, by more than 10 times," the pay panel said. The shift from slab-based system to a percentage-based regime for disability pension after implementation of the Sixth CPC's recommendations was contrary to the tenets of equity, in so far as treatment of disability element between officers and JCOs/ORs was concerned, the pay panel said. "The commission is, therefore, of the view that the regime implemented post-Sixth CPC needs to be discontinued, and recommends a return to the slab-based system," it said while giving suggestions on reverting to the slab rates. To examine recent trends in disability cases, the pay panel had sought data — total number of pensioners superannuating with disability element each year — from the Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA).
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