Ministry of defence issues notification for implementation of OROP

November 07, 2015 21:42

'OROP notification issued. Most contentious issue of VRS has been removed addressing major concerns of d veterans,' BJP leader Ram Madhav tweeted tonight seemingly putting an end to the much contended issue.

According to an MOD statement, the pension would be re-fixed every 5 years in the future.

All family pensioners including those getting special liberalised family pension and gallantry award winners to get arrears in 1 installment.

Govt. will appoint a Judicial Committee to look into anomalies & submit its report in 6 months.

Pension of past pensioners would be re-fixed on the basis of pension of retirees of 2013 and the benefit will be from July 1, 2014. P

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