OROP 2 : ANOMALIES - One more LETTER to PM, DM and DESW, NEW DELHI

OROP 2 : ANOMALIES - One more LETTER to PM, DM and DESW, NEW DELHI 

To,

Shri Narender Modi Ji

 Honourable Prime Minister of india

Union Govt of india

South Block

New Delhi- 110011

Shri Raj Nath Singh ji

Honourable Union Defence Minister of India

South Block

New Delhi - 110012

Shri Vijay Kumar Singh Ji, I.A.S.

Secretary

Defence Ex service man welfare

Govt of India, South Block

New Delhi - 110011

The Combined Defence of Staff

South Block,

New Delhi- 110011

Sub. Agenda points for meeting 

Respected Sir,

1. With due respect, I, Surender Kumar, President, South Delhi Ex serviceman Association Having its regd office at 111/9, Kishan Garh, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi - 110070 would like to draw your kind attention towards various problems being faced by Personnel below officer rank of all the three wings of defence forces.

Point No 1: One Rank One Pension(OROP): Since Sepoy to Hony Captain and their equivalent rank in all the three wings of Indian Defence forces are being paid less amount and on the popular demand of retired defence personnel it was decided by the Govt to implement OROP scheme.The basic aim of introducing this scheme was to bring all retired personnel at par in pension. that mean same length of service same pension, the scheme will be reviewed every after five years keeping 2014 as a base year. The first OROP revision was carried out in 2019 and second revision in 2023. The scheme was high jacked by retired defence officers by showing strength of JCO and Jawans and maximum benifit was diverted towards officers cadre and JCO and Jawans were kept on dark that case is under consideration of Govt of India, Naib Subedar to

 Hony captains are hardly given any benifits.

Point No. 2: Equal Military Service Pay: The MSP was implemented to all PBOR in the Indian Defence Service forces just to improve the living standard and also to motivate Personnel below officer rank because they were less paid like other foreign country defence forces but in india the command went into the hands serving/ retired officer and they have changed the entire defination of MSP and divided into three categories Officers, MNS Officers and Jawans. amount Rs 15500 for officer rank, Rs 10800 for military nursing officers. and Rs.5200 for Sepoy to Hony Captain and its equivalent rank in Other wings. The MSP was purely ment for only Jawans, but contribution jawans were not accounted by the officers and they made three categories in defence forces which are not acceptable hence either it should same for all Sepoy to Officers or otherwise remove it completely from defence forces.

Point No. 3: Equal disability pension:  Again there is huge gap in the awarding disability pension between  officers and Jawans. When Jawans and officers are  fighting together on the border for safe guarding of nation security and any untoward incident took place during war or peace which is attributable to the defence service, this is beyond any doubt how there could is a big difference taken place in awarding disability pension. A Jawan get few thousand of rupees whereas for an officer received  lacs of rupees per month as a disability pension benefited. This must be removed or it should be equal to both category.

Point No. 3: Equal disability pension:Again there is huge gap in the awarding disability pension between officers and Jawans. When Jawans and officers are fighting together on the border for safe guarding of nation security and any untoward incident took place during war or peace which is attributable to the defence service, this is beyond any doubt how there could is a big difference taken place in awarding disability pension. A Jawan get few thousand of rupees whereas for an officer received lacs of rupees per month as a disability pension benefited. This must be removed or it should be equal to both category.

Point No. 4: Grade pay: This is for your information that all Jawans starting from Sepoy to Subedar Major are being grade pay at rate of Rs.2000/- and Rs.6000/- for officers which is also part pf pay, define the status and equivalent in the civil service. This grade pay should be as per rank starting Rs. 2000/- onwards for  the sepoy rank.

Point No. 5: Difference between word Superannuation , Pre mature retirement (PMR) and Voluntarily retirement from Service(VRS):This is for your kind information that Jawans are inducted into Indian Defence forces under terms of Engagement depending upon the defence wing which is called a pensionable service. Initially in the Indian Navy it is 15 Years, Indian Air Force. 21 Years and Indian Army. 20 years. On completion of 1st terms of engagement all jawans are again re-engaged for further service depending upon their medical fitness,good conduct, correcter and requirement of the forces which may be ranging between three to six years. That means it is clear that the Jawans are not inducted into defence for till they attain their superannuation age. Like para military forces, state police and Civilian staff,whereas, anyone other then defence force , they can serve upto superannuation of their age. It is quite clear that even if Jawans wants to remain in the defence service till they attain the superannuation age, but they can not stay in the service and it is totally on the will and wish of Officers. No jawan is taking pre mature or VRS its own , but due to service policy they are forced live defence force before attaining superannuation age. Whereas in case officers, once an officer inducted into defence forces he can remain and complete his superannuation service even being in low medical category just to receive his all service benifits. Therefore , the word premature retirement or VRS in defence force is not applicable for PBOR. Hence all Jawans are to be given all types of benefits in OROP keeping word premature retirement and VRS aside. In civil a Multi Task Staff (MTS)  is recruited and can reached upto the level of under secretary in his superannuation of age even being low medical category.

Point No.6: Equal allowances as per situation. This is for information that all Officers and Jawans whenever they go for any types of operation may be in war or in piece, they are facing/ living in the same environment and same atmosphere  than why there is difference between allowances, the amount should be fixed and equal   for all those who are working in that same situation.

 Point No 7: Revision in the widow pension for Jawans: After demise of any Jawan his wife become entitled for family pension which is reduced to 30% of the service pension which the jawan was in receipt. In fact the responsibility increased on widow and she require more financial support after her husband demised.After implementation of multiple factors in  7th CPC and OROP an officer' widow gets a good and handsome  amount to run her house and to meet her requirement but in case of Jawans it is reduced to 30%, it means at this stage she require more financial support to maintain and to meet het house requirement. Our request is that after demise of Jawan her widow should get same service pension which her husband was getting to avoid inconvenience.

Point No 8: Issue of  Colour Sleek service Identity Cards to All JCO and equivalent in all the three wings of defence services.  Since the all JCO and equivalent in three wings are under gazetted rank issued under the seal, stamp and signature of supreme commander of forces like in the case of officers. we are in view of that all JCO and their equivalent in the all three forces are to given a colour sleek service identity cards at the time of their retirement and also retired ex serviceman as a mark of respect in the civil life.

Point No. 9:  Enhancement of additional service pension :  It seen that civilian or para military personnel who retired from service after attaining superannuation age (60 years), his service pension is enhanced after 20 years of their retirement from service as mentioned:

 From 80 years to less than 85 years – 20% of basic pension/compassionate allowance

From 85 years to less than 90 years – 30% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance

From 90 years to less than 95 years – 40% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance

From 95 years to less than 100 years – 50% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance

From 100 years or more – 100% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance.

Now question arrise that all defence Jawans are retired from defence  service between 35 to 45 years of age and 1st enhancement  of additional  pension take place only when he complete 80 years of his age, which is applicable for all civilian and para military forces. which is totally wrong procedure. Therefore, the 1st enhancement in basic service pension in the case of all defence pensioner must take place after retirement of 20 years from defence service or from his date of retirement and subsequently increase every after five years like in the  case of civilian and other pensioner. 

Point No. 10.

Appointment in KSB/DSB/OIC ECHS and CSD/INCS : It is seen that only officers are inducted in all above mentioned department after their retirement from the defence services. For your kind information officers ate inducted into defence on completion of their 12th class standard and on completion of their four years training in various defence establishment they become officers, their basic qualification just 12th pass only. Today even Jawans are joining defence after completing their graduation and post graduation from civil school/colleges/universities, they are having much better educational back ground then the defence trained officers, since due to poor back ground and limited resources these are recruited as a Jawans.

Our humble request is that since these vacancies are filled up from the retired defence personnel, then it should kept open for all officers including Jawans and JCOs . There should a criteria of written examination where jawan and jco can also apply.All jawans and JCO are well qualified in management system and having enough office working knowledge also.

Point No.11. Abolishing of terminology word ORs(Other ranks)

It is seen that officers have changed the rank defination in the defences forces. there are three types of rank categories in Indian Defence Forces namely. Non Commissioned Officers, Junior Commissioned officers and commissioned officers. we do not know from where the word ORs is taken out by the officers. it shows their poor mentality and create disrespect to NCO/JCOs in armed forces which must stopped forthwith.

Point No. 12: ECHS: In defence services there are different type of medical wards we used while in being admitted inservice hospitals. After retirement fixed medical allowance (FMA) is paid equally for officers and Jawans. We feel that after retirement all officers and Jawans are only ex serviceman and there is no service priority for any one. we are of option that let maintain pvt ward,semi Pvt ward and General in civil emplanled hospitals. there should be an option that if any jawan is willing to pay extra amount for change in categories of wards may permitted. Here govt is not loosing or not paying extra.

Point No. 13.  Induction of Agniveer scheme: its a very good scheme inducted in defence service  where maximum citizen will be given chance to serve nation may be for short duration only. My question is that why this scheme is not implemented for Officers entry. If at all it is for jawans only then our recommendation is all Agniveers on completion of their initial engagement they must transferred or inducted into para military forces or state police force without taking any medical and written test  to the superannuation age.

2.  In view of above, it is requested that please give us any date and time from your valueable and busiest  schedule for meeting as per your convienence for the discussion on the above mentioned points, failing which all state ex servicemen planned to hold a indfinate  Dharna Predershan starting from  20 Feb  2023 to press our demand to Govt.

Thanks and regards

Yours truly

(KP Singh)

General Secretary

South Delhi ex service Association

Copy to:

The Honourable President of India - for info please

Supreme Commander of Defence forces

South block

New Delhi- 110011