Tarun Vijay meets Parrikar, demands 'one rank, one pension' for forces
Feb 26, 2015, 07.56PM IST TNN
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DELHI: BJP MP Tarun Vijay, who is also member, parliamentary standing
committee on defence and president, Uttarakahnd's Society to Help Armed
Retired Personnel met defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday and
gave him a memorandum demanding that the long standing issue of 'one
rank, one pension' be resolved in favour of the soldiers.
He said that if the government feels a crunch of funds, please take away the privileges given to the MPs and MLAs and give the funds to the forces so that their legitimate and logical demand to get 'one rank, one pension' is met.
He said that soldiers give their best to the nation but they are forced to die early and run from pillar to post after retirement. Tarun Vijay told the minister that soldiers were disappointed by the UPA, they have great hopes from PM Modi and him, as a minister.
Tarun Vijay told media persons that Parrikar was very sympathetic to his demands and fully agreed that the government must act sympathetically to the long standing demands of the forces. He said, "as the defence minister I stand with my soldiers". Their demands will certainly receive sympathetic consideration.
Tarun Vijay also said that there are more than 3000 cases regarding disability pension pending in courts. Soldiers' basic pension was revised in line with 6 CPC recommendation from 24 Sep 2012 (instead of 1-1-2006) but disability pension has not yet been revised notwithstanding various letters written on the subject by various associations. CAT had given clear verdict but legitimate dues are being denied. Broad banding of disability pension has been denied in spite of AFT/ SC orders.
He said that if the government feels a crunch of funds, please take away the privileges given to the MPs and MLAs and give the funds to the forces so that their legitimate and logical demand to get 'one rank, one pension' is met.
He said that soldiers give their best to the nation but they are forced to die early and run from pillar to post after retirement. Tarun Vijay told the minister that soldiers were disappointed by the UPA, they have great hopes from PM Modi and him, as a minister.
Tarun Vijay told media persons that Parrikar was very sympathetic to his demands and fully agreed that the government must act sympathetically to the long standing demands of the forces. He said, "as the defence minister I stand with my soldiers". Their demands will certainly receive sympathetic consideration.
Tarun Vijay also said that there are more than 3000 cases regarding disability pension pending in courts. Soldiers' basic pension was revised in line with 6 CPC recommendation from 24 Sep 2012 (instead of 1-1-2006) but disability pension has not yet been revised notwithstanding various letters written on the subject by various associations. CAT had given clear verdict but legitimate dues are being denied. Broad banding of disability pension has been denied in spite of AFT/ SC orders.
dear veterans , today while presenting union budget in the parliament nothing has been said about orop/military pension implementation.And there is no fund allocation has been done by our pm in this budget for orop. So it seems that this govt will drag this issue further. We helpless people will keep on waiting/listening promises made frequently by our PM/RM. They will never short out the modalities of OROP for the years. NDA Govt will pass the full tenure just like this.So friends be aware. Jai Hind.....
ReplyDeleteHas anybody saw FM deliver his budget presentation, he never mentioned about allocation of funds for implementation of OROP, when asked about this he said MOD is still working on that, some issues are still to be settled where as DOM has promised and said he will be sending his report by 17 Feb to our esm delegation on Feb 1, khuda Janey khab OROP ayega, infact, who hi kya janey
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