Government's Nod To 'One Rank, One Pension' Brings Smiles To Defense Personnel

OROP will ensure uniform pension to all military personnel retiring at the same rank, and with the same length of service, irrespective of their date of retirement.

At present, pensioners who retired before 2006 gets lesser pension than their counterparts, or for that matter even much lesser than their juniors.

Major General Satbir Singh said, "On face of it, we welcome the move by the government. Though its a political move by the government barely two months before the general elections, but we need to analysis the exact implementation order. Then only, we would be able to say concrete whether it is actually OROP which we have been fighting for past 40 years," reports DNA.

The defense personnel have been demanding for "one rank, one pension" for the last four decades.

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