All You Need To Know About One Rank One Pension

BENGALURU: Retired defence personnel hold protests across the country including in the national capital against the delay in the implementation of the long-awaited ‘One Rank One Pension’. For example, an officer with 25 years of service who retired in 1995 as a Colonel is currently getting pension based on his last salary drawn. While this is revised annually, his pension is pegged to the 1995 Colonel salary, according to indiatimes.com.

The Narendra Modi government has said that it is committed to One Rank, One Person (OROP) but has refused to specify a timeline for its implementation. Prime Minister Modi, in fact, reached out to retired defence personnel in his radio address 'Mann ki Baat', assuring that his government will find a solution to fix this issue as soon as possible.

One Rank One Pension seeks to ensure that defence personnel who retire at the same rank and with the same length of service, will get equal pension irrespective of when they got retired. Close to 22 lakh ex-servicemen and over six lakh war widows stand to be the immediate beneficiaries of the scheme. Earlier it was said that OROP will be implemented in the defence forces before the next Budget.

However, while presenting the Budget 2015, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley did not announce its implementation. On 17 February this year, the Supreme Court had directed the Centre to implement its six-year-old verdict to follow the One Rank One Pension scheme and had also reminded the BJP of its pre-poll promise made to the people.

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