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Monday, 27 June 2022
RELEVANT PAGES OF AFFIDAVIT FILED BY GOI IN SCI FOR EXTENSION FURTHER 3 MONTHS FOR OROP RE-FIXATION
COPY OF ORIGINAL PPO - JWO GROUP X 23 YEARS, YOR 2018
Sunday, 26 June 2022
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Saturday, 25 June 2022
OROP RE-FIXATION SCENARIO AS DIPICTED BY A CARTOONIST
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
अग्निवीरो को 4 साल के बाद नौकरी की व्यवस्था हो चुकी है ।
Monday, 20 June 2022
VETERAN MAHANANDA BISWAS FILES GRIEVANCE WITH PMO
Name Of Complainant
Mahananda Biswas
Date of Receipt
20/06/2022
Received By Ministry/Department
Prime Minister’s Office
Grievance Description
Honourable Prime Minister Sir,
I am a Defence Pensioner and thus is a beneficiary and stakeholder by any
revision or refixation of Defence pension. Government of India, Ministry of
Defence issued a notification on 07.09.2015 for implementation of One Rank One
Pension with effect from 01.07.2014 for Defence Pensioners with well-defined
salient features. The OROP notification clearly stipulated that: “The pension
would be re-fixed every 5 years.”
Unfortunately, till now Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare failed to re-fix
the pension on expiry of 5 years I.e., with effect from 01.07.2019 despite the
order of Honourable Raksha Mantri as early as in 14 June, 2019. So, in effect
Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare has violated the Government notification to
the peril of pensioners like me and millions of other Defence Pensioners.
Though there was no suspension or injunction order of any Court of Justice on
the OROP Re-fixation process, the Secretary, Ex-servicemen Welfare stated in a
SCOVA meeting that the Re-fixation process was held up as the matter was sub
judice. He was referring to HSC case WPC (C) 419/2016.
At present, that case is no longer sub judice, as the case is settled, and
jurisdiction passed on 16 March 2022 by Division Bench of HSC. The Jurisdiction
is attached herewith.
Sir, please refer to the points 50 and 51 of the HSC jurisdiction, where the
Division Bench of HSC directed and ordered Government of India that “in terms
of the communication dated 7 November 2015, a re-fixation exercise shall be
carried out from 1 July 2019, upon the expiry of five years. Arrears payable to
all eligible pensioners of the armed forces shall be computed and paid over
accordingly within a period of three months”.
To utter disregard to its own notification and gross violation of HSC order,
Ministry of Defence neither re-fixed the pension nor paid any arrears to me or
any of the eligible pensioners
The failure of the executive to comply with an order of Highest Judiciary of
the country is a grave cause of concern to me and millions of Defence Pensioners
as a whole. It is emanating a wrong signal to the total ex-servicemen
fraternity as well as to the serving soldiers.
I, as a Defence Pensioner is filing this complaint and urge you to direct
Ministry of Defence, Government of India to immediately comply to the GOI
notification and HSC order to re-fix the OROP pension with effect from
01.07.2019 and pay arrears to all eligible pensioners.
I am sure that your pro-active initiative to iron out the grievances of large
section of society would lead us to the path of peace and progress.
Jai Hind.
Yours Faithfully
Mahananda Biswas
Ex-Sergeant of Indian Air Force.
Sunday, 19 June 2022
MAGNIFIED VIEW OF GRIEVANCES WITH PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE LODGED BELOW
Dear Sir,
I am a beneficiary and a stakeholder of benefits accrued consequent to the judgement in OROP Case WPC (C) 419/2016.As per the judgement in the above case, you were ordered and directed to Refix OROP and pay the arrears within three months.
The time limit set forth by the HSC has expired on June 16, 2022.
Kindly instruct Ministry of Defence to Honour the Judgement in above case immediately Since the time limit set forth by the HSC for its compliance is already over.
This is sending a wrong message to the Public at large that that the Executive themselves have disregarded the HSC Order and Direction in the above case.
Yours Faithfully,
M B Chandran Menon
EX- Sergeant (Affected Military Veteran)
GRIEVANCES WITH PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE LODGED
Saturday, 18 June 2022
A MAGNIFIED VIEW OF RTI FILED BELOW
Dear Sir,
I am a beneficiary and a stakeholder of benefits
accrued consequent to the judgement in OROP Case WPC (C) 419/2016.
As per the judgement in the above case, you were
ordered and directed to Refix OROP and pay the arrears within three months.
The time limit set forth by the HSC has expired on
June 16, 2022. Hence this RTI Request for sharing following details:
1) Kindly share necessary steps taken by you for
not being treated as wilfully defying the court order & direction in the
above case.
2) Kindly share the steps taken by you to ensure
that you are not passing a wrong message to the entire public that the
Executive themselves have disregarded HSC Order and Direction in the above case.
Yours Faithfully,
M B Chandran Menon
EX- Sergeant (Affected Military Veteran)
RTI FILED TO KNOW THE REASON FOR DELAY IN IMPLIMENTING COURT ORDER IN OROP CASE
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
4 YEARS AGNIPATH SCHEME FOR ENROLMENT IN INDIAN ARMED FORCES
Friday, 10 June 2022
PRESENT PAY SCALE OF X GROUP SERGEANT 15YEARS
Saturday, 4 June 2022
THE COMING DAYS WILL TELL US WHETHER THE FILING OF A REVIEW PETITION WAS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
The ex-servicemen community believes that the timing of filing a review petition in HSC has given the Union of India a shot in the arm to further delay the long-delayed implementation of the OROP refixation. Any layman can find that there is no legitimate basis or scope for filing a review petition before the same court that delivered the judgement. All our learned colleagues' arguments, as briefed by the managers of the legal battle, were flatly rejected by the court.
Many
members of the impacted community were concerned from the start about relying
on the Koshyari Committee report, which has no legal backing. We are at a loss
to understand how those learned senior consuls consented to argue the case
solely based on the report of the above committee, which has only advisory
power and relied on parliamentary speeches. The overdependence on these points
has diverted our attention from convincing the court regarding discrimination
and arbitrariness in the original OROP notification based on an executive
decision.
The basis
of the review petition appears to have stemmed from the appellants'
desperation, which will hurt the entire ex-serviceman community. The timing and
impact of the review petition will almost certainly be detrimental to the
interests of the entire ex-serviceman community. The Appellants, who were once
advocates of the OROP campaign in the eyes of the ex-servicemen community, have
now become roadblocks to the long awaited OROP refixation.
We are
not blaming the appellants for their failure to win the case because winning
and losing are both parts of the judicial process that must be accepted
wholeheartedly. Having said that, the appellants' actions in filing a review petition
after the judgement upholding the executive decision are not acceptable to the
ex-servicemen community and are detrimental to their interests.
Last but
not least, we are grateful to the appellants who pioneered the OROP campaign
and brought the matter to judicial scrutiny where the bench ordered the
refixasion as per earlier executive decision that was otherwise unlikely to be
updated on the grounds that it had already been revised by the 7th CPC, as
instructed by the Hon CGDA.