Welfare Of Defence Personnel - "One Rank One Pension"

Welfare Of Defence Personnel



A committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary to look in the issue of ‘One Rank One Pension and other related issues’. After considering all aspects and keeping in mind the spirit of the demand, several recommendations to substantially improve pensionary benefits of Armed Forces pensioners have been made, which have been accepted and are as follows:-





(i) Inclusion of classification Allowance for PBOR from January 01, 2006.



(ii) Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from January 01, 2006.



(iii) Revision of Lt General Pension after carving out a separate pay scale for them.



(iv) Bringing parity between pension of pre and post October 10, 1997 PBOR pensioners.



(v) Further improving PBOR pensions based on award of Group of Ministers 2006.



(vi) Broad banding percentage of disability /war injury pensions for pre- January 01, 2006 disability/war injury pensioners.



(vii) Removal of cap on war injury element of pension in the case of disabled pensioners belong to Category E.





Government orders in implementation of the same have been issued on October 30, 2009, January 19, 2010, January 20, 2010 and March 08, 2010. Approximately 12 lac pensioners are benefitted by the recommendations.





This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Shri MM Pallam Raju in a written reply to Smt Sumitra Mahajan in Lok Sabha today.


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Returning awards and medals

In protest against non-acceptance of their demand of One Rank One Pension, some of the ex-servicemen surrendered their medals. Nine cardboard boxes full of medals have been received.



A Committee was set up under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary to look into the issue of One Rank One Pension and other related issues. After considering all aspects of the issue, the Committee did not find it administratively feasible to recommend One Rank One Pension, as such. However, keeping in mind the spirit of the demand several other recommendations to substantially improve pensionary benefits of Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) and Commissioned Officers have been made, which have been accepted by the Government:-



i) Bringing parity between pension of pre and post October 10, 1997 PBOR pensioners.


ii) Inclusion of Classification Allowance of PBOR from January 01, 2006.


iii) Further improving PBOR pensions based on award of GOM, 2006.


iv) Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from January 01, 2006 in respect of Commissioned Officers.


v) Revision of pension of Lt. General pension after carving out a separate pay scale of Rs. 69000 - 79000.


vi) Broad banding of percentage of disability/war injury pension for pre January 01, 1996 disability/war injury pensioners.


vii) Removal of the cap on war injury element of pension in the case of disabled pensioners belonging to Category E, which have also been accepted by the Government.



Two of the recommendations at SI. No. (ii) and (iv) have since been implemented through a Govt. letter dated October 10, 2009. Other recommendations are at different stages of implementation. Since the issue on which ex-servicemen have been protesting has been substantially addressed by the Committee, the Government expects them to honour their hard earned medals.



This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Shri MM Pallam Raju in a written reply to Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh Alias Lalan Singh in Lok Sabha today.

Return of Medals by Ex-servicemen and officers

Retired soldiers and officers have returned their medals during last few years. Nine cardboard boxes full of medals have been received. In protest against non-acceptance of their demands of ‘One Rank, One Pension’. Although the ‘One Rank One Pension’ demand has not been accepted, keeping in view the spirit of the matter, the committee constituted has recommended substantial improvement in pension of pre Jan 01, 2006 PBOR pensioners and bring pre October 10, 1997 pensioners on par with post October 10, 1997 pensioners



This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Shri MM Pallam Raju in written reply to Shri Shivanand Tiwari and Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad in Rajya Sabha today.

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One rank one pension formula


A committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary to look into the issue of One Rank One Pension and other related matters. After considering all aspects of the issue, the Committee did not find it administratively feasible to recommend One Rank One Pension, as such. However, keeping in mind the spirit of the demand several other recommendations to substantially improve pensionary benefits of personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) and Commissioned Officers have been made, which have been accepted by the Government:-



i) Inclusion of Classification Allowance for PBOR from Jan 01, 2006.



ii) Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from Jan 01, 2006.



iii) Revision of Lt Gen pension after carving out a separate pay scale for them.



iv) Bringing parity between pension of pre and post October 10, 1997 PBOR pensions.



v) Further improving PBOR pensions based on award of GOM, 2006.



vi) Broad banding of percentage of disability/war injury pension for pre Jan 01, 2006 disability/war injury pensioners.



vii) Removal of cap on war injury element of pension in the case of disabled pensioners belonging to Category ‘E’.



The recommendations at (i) and (ii) stand implemented by issue of Government letter dated October 30, 2009. Average hike in pension of Ex-servicemen of the three forces of Indian Defence will be known only after all the recommendations of the Committee have been implemented.



This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in written reply to Shri Prakash Javadekar and Shri Parimal Nathwani in Rajya Sabha today.