Ex-services body fumes over delay in OROP, blames bureaucracy

The Odisha unit of the Indian Ex-Services League today blamed the bureaucracy for non-implementation of the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to all the defence personnel despite the UPA government’s announcement to this effect.Indian Army

“All these days, the soldiers have been waiting for the formal orders to originate from the government, but to their dismay, it is learnt that the bureaucracy of this country does not appear to be favourably disposed to honour this commitment. The CGDA, PCDA and DESW have now started carrying out their own interpretation of the definition itself of the OROP, which falls far below the intended pension benefits to the defence personnel,” said general secretary of the Odisha unit Bidyadhar Nayak in a press release.

He said that there is a clear cut definition of OROP which has always been used in all discussions as well as in correspondence including the Report of the Committee of Secretaries on OROP ordered by the government in June 2009.