MOD HAS VIOLATED THE PRINCIPLE OF COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CABINET- A GROSS DIRLESION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

The Secretary,

 Department of Ex-Servicemen's Welfare.

 Respected Sir,

 Sub: Violation of collective responsibility of the union cabinet and contempt of the HSC judgment by the MOD.

 It is brought to your kind attention that by issuing a letter dated 08/04/2022, to PCDA directing them to prepare two separate tables for X group trades of defence veterans for OROP revision from July 1, 2019, on the basis of a cut-off date of 01/01/2016, you have violated the cabinet resolution dated 05/09/2016, by working against the collective responsibility of the union cabinet.

The Cabinet resolution, Paragraph 4(a), is very clear about the enhancement of X group pay from the existing rate of 1400 to 6200 based on qualification. In utter disregard to the union cabinet decision and HSC judgment in this regard, you seem to have taken the law into your own hands by sending such a letter to the PCDA, which is an implementing agency. If you had any such reservation on the above cabinet decision, you should have raised such an issue in the cabinet and sorted it out before the cabinet took any decision in this respect. It is not appreciable on your part to be a party to the cabinet approval and then express your disagreement with it thereafter.

It has been noticed that whenever veterans are submitting their grievances on this policy matter, you seem to have transferred them to the implementing agency, the PCDA, including mine. In reply to all the applicants, PCDA has mentioned that it is as per your instructions, and they have no role in it.

This is not an act of good governance on your part to transfer the responsibility of such illegal action to the implementing agency, which is only obeying your orders.

We hope that MOD will rise to the occassion and correct the mistakes.