Sunday 2 November 2014

THE HINDU REPORT EXPOSED

THE HINDU DATED 01 NOV

A REPORT ON OROP AND MY COMMENTS

The implementation of one rank, one pension has pushed up the Centre’s defence pension payments by a record 40 per cent, posing fresh challenges to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s resolve to keep the Centre’s fiscal deficit within the budgetary target of 4.1 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product.

The armed forces pensions bill for the first six months of the current fiscal, from April to September, has turned out to be about Rs. 8,000 crore higher than for the corresponding period last year. Mr. Jaitley had provided only Rs. 1,000 crore for the whole year towards the scheme in the Budget he presented on July 10. The Finance Ministry is revising upwards its Budget estimate for the outgo on account of the scheme that benefits nearly 24 lakh pensioners of the armed forces.

The defence pensions bill for 2014-15 can be roughly expected to go up by about Rs. 16,000 crore over last year’s, the source said. The Budget estimated defence pensions during 2014-15 to be Rs. 50,966.95 crore as against Rs. 44,475.95 crore the previous year.
The austerity measures do not cover pensions and the challenge for Mr. Jaitley will be to find fresh resources for the rapidly rising bill.

“Defence pensions payments normally do not go up so drastically. Though some increase was expected on account of the new scheme, the rise is turning out to be manifold,” the source said.

One rank, one pension means soldiers of the same rank and the same length of service get the same pension, irrespective of their retirement date.

The decision to implement the scheme was first announced by former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the UPA government’s interim Budget he had presented in February this year. Mr. Chidambaram had allocated Rs. 500 crore for it. “This decision will be implemented prospectively from the financial year 2014-15,” he had said while presenting the vote on account ahead of the elections.

MY COMMENTS
Blatant Bureaucratic Lies

Since when have the Paper like the Hindu has started misleading people? Firstly no penny has been paid on this account so far, nor it would be paid in the near future with the RM contemplating referring this matter to the Tribunal. With this how has the budget gone up I ask you?

The next thing you should have known is that Koshyari Committee of the Parliament worked out an expenditure for OROP as Rs 1300 crores in 2011. After that in 2012 the Govt bridged the gap by giving an increase of Rs 500 cr. With this how has this jumped up to 8000 cr I leave it to you to work out.

The frightening figures should give you an idea about the extent of denial of the rightful dues of the Veterans and should be cause for alarm, rather than empathy with bureaucrats by spreading their lies.

Lt Col Inderjit Singh
Chairman
All India Ex services Welfare Association
Author of OROP. Presented first time to PM on 22 Feb 1982
Mob : 09811007629

2 comments:

  1. OROP appears to have been buried for another 5 years. At this rate, I think we will never get it. We hv been petitioning the Govt for more than three decades now. Yet there is no improvement except being betrayed by the politicians. Is it not time we think of some other form of protests to force the Govt to sanction OROP?

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  2. It is one rank one pay or pension.the country is in doubt now.can some one clarify to our PM and RM.regds MCPO Andithevar

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