From: raj kadyan rajkadyan@yahoo.com
Subject: ESM sirep 02 Jul evening
Date: Thursday, 2 July, 2009, 10:38 PM
Dear Colleagues,
Many ESM have been calling from all over the country to check the status of OROP. Govt orders are still awaited.
Best regards,
Lt Gen (Emeritus) Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Chairman IESM
J R VATSA said on Saturday, June 27, 2009, 11:44
Of course belately, yet the wisdom has dawned on the concerned leaders for serious consideration of the issue of OROP of defence services personnel. Dear all, let me tell you that there is no compromise on the aspect of nation’s security needs. I have my heart with the armed forces personnel who never think twice before laying down their lives for the sake of our nation. Let us all unite and give them their due without any rancour. It should be a matter of serious concern for all of us to have the armed forces personnel on the street agitating for their legimitate dues. Let us all unite and be with them in their hour of need.
The government seems all set to upwardly revise pension of ex-servicemen to bring them closer to the long-demanded ‘‘one-rank, one-pension’’ mechanism.
Though holding that full OROP is neither financially nor administratively possible, the government promises to resolve the existing anomalies in the pension structures of ex-servicemen which have been accentuated by the 6th Pay Commission.
On 25th June 2009, cabinet secretary Mr.K M Chandrasekhar, who heads the committee of secretaries (CoS) looking into the issue, made a presentation to Prime Minister Mr.Manmohan Singh. He is also said to have discussed the pros and cons of granting the OROP demand based on the nearly two-month study that the committee carried out on the subject.
Others present during the presentation included finance minister Mr.Pranab Mukherjee, defence minister Mr.A K Antony, home minister Mr.P Chidambaram and minister of state (personnel) Prithviraj Chavan. The UPA government has already committed itself to taking a decision on the subject by the end of June in President Ms.Pratibha Patil’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament on June 4.
Source : The times of India
