CABINET SECRETARY REPORT ON PAY AND PENSION MATTERS OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL SUBMITTED TO PM

Pay and Pension Matters of Personnel

AUGUST 27, 2012 · 1 COMMENT/

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Pay and Pension Matters of Personnel

The committee chaired by Cabinet Secretary is comprised of Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister; Defence Secretary; Secretary, Department of Expenditure; Secretary, Department of Ex- Servicemen’s Welfare and Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training. Consequent to change in charge of the then Secretary, Department of Expenditure to Department of Revenue, Secretary, Department of Revenue has also been co-opted as a Member of the Committee. Chief of Naval Staff & Chairman, Chiefs of the Staff Committee made a presentation to the Committee. The Committee further interacted with all the Service Chiefs (Chief of Naval Staff & Chairman, Chiefs of the Staff Committee; Chief of Air Staff and Chief of Army Staff). The recommendations of the Committee have been submitted to the Prime Minister.

This information was given by Minister of Defence Shri AK Antony in a written reply to Shri M.B.Rajesh and others in Lok Sabha today.

Ex Service Men Including Commissioned officers and Defence Civilian: Calculate your pension yourselves

Log on to   http://cgda.nic.in/  , the Controller General of Defence Account site. Click on to 'suvigya'   shown on the extreme right corner of the site or follow the link http://cgda.nic.in/Suvigya/ . Click on to the type of pensioner and enter your personal details in the relevant boxes where you can get your present pension eligibility. However, this figure shows only your basic pension. Add 65% DA to the basic pension to get your total pension. 

Suvigya a new software introduced by cgda which enables all ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers & Defence civilian to calculate their pension eligibility from any corner of the world.

Pay, pension issues report yet to be tabled Ex-servicemen feel the delay indicates government’s unwillingness.

Pay, pension issues report yet to be tabled

Ex-servicemen feel the delay indicates government’s unwillingness.

SUMAN SHARMA  New Delhi | 19th Aug

he government's promise to resolve pay and pension issues of armed forces personnel is yet to be fulfilled. A Committee of Secretaries was set-up in July this year to look into anomalies of pay and pension, and this Committee has not yet submitted its report to the Prime Minister, thereby giving rise to speculation of likely unfulfillment of the recommendations made, in favour of retired and serving personnel. The Committee, headed by Cabinet Secretary, was looking into five issues pertaining to serving personnel and four issues of retired pensioners. One rank one pension (OROP) has always been a strong demand of retired personnel for which they have been actively fighting for more than four years. Ex-servicemen feel that the delay is indicative of the government's unwillingness to fulfill their demands. This Committee has Secretaries from the Ministries of Defence, Finance, Expenditure, Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare and PM's Principal Secretary Pulok Chatterjee. For serving personnel, some of the issues this Committee is examining are common pay-scale for in-service non-officer men, initial pay fixation for Lt Col, Colonel and Brigadier equivalent and review and enhancement of grade pay. For retired pensioners the Committee is looking into one rank one pension, enhancement of family pension and dual family pensions, among others. Retired Major General Satbir Singh. Vice Chairman of Ex-servicemen Movement told this newspaper, "A Parliamentary Committee had earlier recommended OROP to the Prime Minister, but he ignored this recommendation made by 10 MPs, and instead set up a separate committee of bureaucrats, who have not yet submitted their report and also there is no representative from the armed forces in this Committee. A fraud is being played by the PM himself on the defence services." Satbir Singh, who recently wrote to Satpal Maharaj about OROP, said that this matter came up for the first time in 1982 and late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had agreed to it. A 10-MP committee submitted its recommendation of giving OROP to the PM in December 2011, on which an Action Taken Report had to be submitted by the PM in March this year in Parliament, which is not yet done. 8 August is when the Committee of Secretaries was supposed to have submitted its report, but it is delayed. Former Army Chief V.P. Malik said, "I am disappointed as this is a committee comprising only of civil service officers and no one from armed forces. There does not seem to be much hope from this Committee's report." The demands of ex-servicemen, especially OROP will benefit 24 lakh ex-servicemen and four lakh widows drawing family pensions, all across the country and would cost approximately Rs 1300 cr to the exchequer.

Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech - August 15, 2012

Our Government has set up a committee to examine issues relating to pay and pension of armed forces personnel. This committee will also look into matters concerning pension of retired men and officers and family pension being paid to their families. We will take prompt action on the recommendations of the committee, once they are received.

No 'one rank one pension' for ex-servicemen, say sources

New Delhi: In what is likely to be a big disappointment for the ex-servicemen community, the PM-appointed pay panel is unlikely to recommend One Rank One Pension.

Sources have told CNN-IBN that the panel led by the Cabinet Secretary is keen to push for the concept of modified parity, which means new pay grades will be fixed specifically for pension purposes.
It is likely to agree on common pay scales for Junior Commissioned Officers and ORs, enhancement of widow pension, and a green signal for Non-Functional upgradation to commissioned officers.
The three service chiefs have already held discussions with the pay panel members. The three service chiefs had written to the Cabinet Secretary about the absence of a military representative on the panel, follwing which the Committee of Secretaries held discussions with the three service chiefs earlier this week.
The panel is likely to take a few more days before sending its final recommendations

CONTAIN RISING INCIDENTS OF INDISCIPLINE IN THE ARMY

 CONTAIN RISING  INCIDENTS OF INDISCIPLINE  IN THE ARMY

                             It is with great pain to read from the media that this being the second case of grave indiscipline in the army which took place in this year. We have never heard such an incidents in the history of independent India ever before.  Incidents of Solders engaging in a fist with officers can never be tolerated with, whatever may be the reason for that. Our army is unique  in the world for its structure& discipline. The cause of indiscipline started after the implementation of 6th pay commission which has been prepared with a civil structure & disregard to military requirements .The hierarchy of discipline persisted for other ranks earlier  was the JCO  who acted as  a link between officers & other ranks, then the Havildar was the link between JCO , NAIK & SEPOY. The Naik was the link between havildar & solders. Hence a perfect system of chain of discipline was followed. The military management structure consists of officers at top management & the JCO’S at the middle management. The officers were kept much distanced from the soldiers whose approach can be made only through intermediaries; The school of military management has created it with a great thought since ordinary solders with less education are always subjected to momentary emotion & feeling. The sixth pay commission has violated above basic principle of division of responsibility of armed forces envisaged by the school military managent. In context the need for a separate pay panel for defense forces  need not be emphasized. The sixth pay panel has neglected the hierarchy in other ranks, for instance they have equated the havildar who was a link between the JCO & Naik to sepoy in their pay scales. This can be confirmed from the pay band of the other ranks. Hence the channel of responsibility& discipline was damaged by the sixth pay panel which needs to be repaired. This is the main cause that leading to gross indiscipline. There should not be a direct channel between officers & solders without the above intermediaries. Let us hope that the ministry of defense under the able leadership of our honorable minister Mr.A.K.ANTONY will take appropriate steps to maintain the reputation of our armed forces in the eyes of the world