The NDA Government Must Display Its Own Political And Governance Acumen And Let Not Accountants Dictate On Matters of National Importance
The Government gave a Sovereign promise to its Defence Officers soldiers, sailors and Air warriors on one rank one pension. It cannot back away on any pretext because it will set precedence for the soldiers too for backing away from its National oath. Then what may happen, we all can visualize. At the least our national security will be in total jeopardy.
So the willfully and it seems gleefully created too, the seemingly Gordian Knot, by Accountants of the Government must be simply hacked away by Modi and his Raksha Mantri. Munims should not be allowed to delve into matters Sovereign or decide policy matters and dictate terms.
The One Rank One Pension should have been revised with effect 01 Jul19 but the CGDA is acting like an independent Constitutional authority. Why they were not ready with their charts by 30 June 19 ? If Defence Forces too start behaving in similar manner then what will happen next ?
In case required, like preparation of budget,the entire staff of CGDA with CGDA himself must sit together for a week and get things moving or be summarily dismissed.
Here is some written in anguish by a veteran : …..listen to Kautilya, what he had written 2300 years ago ……let the anguish of soldiers not turn into anger.
1. Maj Gen Sabherwal (Retd) rang me up just now and informed me that too many mails are floating around on sending PPOs or E-PPOs to me and he is rather confused whether he should send his PPO or not.
2. Col Ravindranath from Coimbattore asked me the reason for his E-PPO not containing his wife’s date of birth though he got a Corr PPO from PCDA (Pensions) Allahabad for her date of birth.
3. I explained in my few previous mails CGDA is hell bent to recommend to the Govt of India, Min of Def to scrap OROP altogether. It saves lot of money to the Govt of India and saves lot of work to CGDA in making tables for OROP – 2018. Therefore I urged all fauji pensioners to defeat the evil design of CGDA by placing hard facts as how OROP – 2018 is required to be implemented w.e.f Jul 2019.
3. Later CGDA sprang another surprise stating that Lt Cols and Brigs who retired from Jul 2014 onwards are getting much lesser pension than those retired earlier i.e. OROP – 2013. Therefore, he says OROP is bakwas and should be scrapped altogether. This revelation came much later when Air Mshl SY Savur obtained CGDA letter to Min of Def. I collected some data from various PPOs and can prove the following:-
(a) Not even 15% of Post – Jul 2014 Lt Cols / Cdrs / Wg Cdrs draw less pension than OROP – 2013.
(b) Not even one Post – Jul 2014 Brig / Cmde / Air Cmde from my databank drew less pension than those of OROP – 2013 beneficiaries.
(c) OROP – 2018 benefits all ranks of pensioners by Rs 2,000 to Rs 14,000 in OROP – 2018. For example a Pre – Jun 2014 Brigadier with 33 or more years of service gets pension of Rs 96,555 whereas Brigadier with same service in 2018 gets pension of Rs 1,10,300. The gain all Pre – Jul 2014 Brigadiers of 33 or more year’s service in OROP – 2018 is Rs 13,745 which CGDA wants to deny.
4. I therefore inform all retires irrespective of your rank (Sepoy to Lt Gen HAG+) and irrespective of your date of retirement (from 15 Aug 1947 to 30 Jun 2019) to send your E-PPOs if they are already uploaded by PCDA (Pensions) Allahabad or PPOs if you are not in receipt of E-PPOs. When you scan your old PPO, I find it is illegible and one cannot make out the data. Therefore when you send PPOs kindly give me the following information about your pension as mentioned in that old PPO :-
(a) Service No.
(b) Rank (Substantive or Time Scale only for Lt Cols and Colonels).
(c) Name as per PPO.
(d) Qualifying Service in years and months
(e) Date of Commission.
(f) Date of Retirement.
(g) Basic Pay at the time of retirement (from which I will work out your Notional Pay as on Jan 2016 with help of Circular 608).
(h) Pension sanctioned at the time of retirement.
(j) PPO No.
5. E-PPOs. PCDA (Pensions) Allahabad had made E-PPOs only for 70% of Army pensioners as number of pensioners is in the region of 28 lakhs. Many Army Officers have not got E-PPO as the same is not yet uploaded by PCDA (Pensions) Allahabad. It is understood in few months time, all Army Pensioners will be given E-PPOs. For Army Officers E-PPOs are being uploaded onto website of RODRA of Army HQ, AGs Branch, MP Directorate (MP 5/6). For JCOs / OR the E-PPOs are being sent to Record Offices, CPPCs of banks, DPDOs and Treasury offices. E-PPOs mention Notional Pay as on Jan 2016. From my analysis, I find all those Post – Jul 2014 pensioners get higher pension by Notional pay method. But those retired in the period Jul 2014 to Dec 2015 are still getting pension by 2.57 method which is lesser than by Notional pay method. Therefore PCDA (Pensions) Allahabad is in a hurry to issue E-PPOs with whatever data they have. Most of the E-PPOs do not contain date of birth of wife which will be included later.
6. I hope with this long explanation now all fauji pensioners know that irrespective of date of retirement to kindly send their E-PPOs or PPOs with details to me at the earliest. The Committee constituted to work out modality of OROP by Min of Def (ESW) on 14 Jun 2019 under the chairmanship of CGDA (who opposes OROP vehemently with all false data) ably supported by host of DAD members of the committee will try to mislead the Govt of India with false information unless we are able to confront him with hard facts from E-PPOs or PPOs. Unless we are able to produce evidence i.e. E-PPOs or PPOs, our argument will not be accepted by this committee. Therefore I am more interested in the E-PPOs or PPOs of Lt Cols (TS & SG) and Brigadiers retired from Jul 2014 to Jun 2019 to prove CGDA’s claim as wrong and made with deliberate intention to scuttle OROP. Please send the E-PPOs and PPOs duly scanned to my e-mail id: csvidyasagar@gmail.com. Those who sent their documents earlier need not send them again. For every E-PPO or PPO I receive, I am replying them with gratitude.
7. Please send this mail to all your groups in which you are a member and also to your course-mates, seniors or juniors who worked with you in your long service career for faster dissemination. My humble request let us concentrate all our energies to defeat the enemy who is at our door step. After 30 days, we can then lecture to Mr Donald Trump how to run USA administration and Mr Narendra Modi how to run India.
8. If you lose OROP then you alone are responsible for that. Do not forget what the IAS lobby said whenever the demand for OROP in the past came about “ OROP, my bloody foot!. Over my Dead body”.
Warm regards,
Brig CS Vidyasagar (Retd)
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csvidyasagar@gmail.com
