OROP News

One Rank One Pension Revision arrear money: The Armed Forces Personnel retired up to June 30, 2019 {excluding pre-mature (PMR) retired w.e.f. July 01, 2014} will be covered under this revision. 

The Supreme Court upheld the government's decision on One Rank, One Pension and said that it does not find any Constitutional infirmity on the OROP principle.

Supreme Court the Centre to place before it as to how many persons in the Armed forces have received Modified Assured Career Progression (MACP), how many are in Assured Career Progression (ACP), and what would be the financial outlay, if the court directs MACP to be also factored in for OROP.

BJP national working president J P Nadda said that the BJP`s manifesto for Haryana is a pragmatic paper hence it is doable. 

There have been demands from the in-service and retired Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles (AR) personnel for extending One Rank One Pension (OROP) at par with Defence personnel.

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The amount of Rs 30,000 crore was more than enough to solve the OROP issue, he said after the 30-minute with a group of retired defence personnel on Saturday.

Centre said it has done more than it could and if there is interference the financial burden will increase on the government.

In a Twitter post, the Indian Amy warned that material printed on the letterheads of the ministry of defence or branches of Army headquarters were being circulated on social media and some of these were false.

Several ex-servicemen, demanding the implementation of One Rank One Pension or OROP, were forcefully evicted from Jantar Mantar on Monday following an National Green Tribunal (NGT) order banning protests and dharnas around the historic monument.

In November, Arvind Kejriwal had announced a compensation of Rs one crore for Ram Kishen​ Grewal's family.

Defence Minster Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said that around 20 lakh pensioners have been paid the benefits of One Rank One Pension so far, and more than 99 per cent of cases will be settled by January-end.

Indian Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag thanked the government for providing a free hand and implementing OROP.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday adjourned the matter on petition challenging the Rs 1 crore compensation and status of martyr given to late Ram Kishan Grewal by Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government.

On November 4, ex-Army man Ram Kishan Grewal committed suicide by consuming poison at Janpath, allegedly over the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme.

BJP Parliamentary Party Executive, comprising top brass including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah, will meet on Monday to chalk out its strategy for the Winter Session starting on Wednesday with the opposition keen to target the government over issues like demonetisation and OROP.

Criticising Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for saying that 95 percent of ex-servicemen have already got the benefits of the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme, the Congress party on Sunday said he did not deserve to be in the union cabinet.

In an embarrassment for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), party MP Shatrughan Sinha, condemned the police action on opposition leaders and the family of ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said that only 4-5 percent of retired Army men are facing problems in getting their pension as per One Rank One Pension (OROP).