Ex-servicemen Will Get OROP dues Before Holi

The Government of India which accords utmost importance to the welfare of Ex-Servicemen, has kept its promise with regard to the historic decision taken on 5th September 2015 to implement the more than four decades old demand of Ex-Servicemen for One Rank One Pension (OROP), by ensuring that payments have begun to the concerned in record time.

Orders had been issued with regard to this historic decision, through a notification on 7th November 2015 by the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (ESW) of the Ministry of Defence.

Then within just three months of the issue of these orders, the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (ESW) brought out detailed OROP tables on 3rd February 2016, which are also available on their website www.desw.gov.in.

We are expecting to cover almost entire population by Holi. That would be real colorful Holi for Ex-servicemen: Manohar Parrikar #OROP

— ANI (@ANI_news) March 21, 2016

More than two-thirds of Ex-Servicemen have been paid #OROP arrears so far: Defence Ministry.

— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) March 22, 2016

Revised pensionary benefits under #OROP released https://t.co/uDjAfV8nyB

— Doordarshan News (@DDNewsLive) March 15, 2016

A major achievenent by Modi Govt fulfilled .A promise after four decades finally delivered #ThankYouPM #OROP pic.twitter.com/7kDbbQWnQg

— Naina Vande Mataram (@NaIna0806) March 14, 2016

#OROP pensionary benefits released to over 2 lacs Defence Pensioners, But media mum as usual for positive news! pic.twitter.com/uGmXimpgTq

— Sumit (@iSKatiyar) March 14, 2016

The 101 tables in these implementation orders contain revised pension of different ranks and categories. In the past implementation of CSC-2012 and 6th CPC had taken a longer time.

More than two-thirds of the Ex-Servicemen have now been paid the OROP arrears. Payments have now reached the accounts of 13.02 lakh pensioners amounting to about Rs. 2,293 crore. This amount has been released through Defence Pension Disbursing Offices (DPDOs), the State Bank of India (SBI) and the Punjab National Bank (PNB).

The details of payments are as follows:

As on March 17th, the DPDOs have released an amount of about Rs. 606 crore to about 3.20 lakh defence personnel.

The SBI has as released up to March 17 an amount of Rs. 1,337 crore to 7.75 lakh pensioners which includes Family Pension cases. The PNB has released as on March 17, an amount of about Rs. 350 crore to about 2.07 lakh pensioners which includes Family Pension cases.

Other Banks who have also been assigned the task of disbursement of revised defence pension to Ex-Servicemen have been directed to complete the process of payment latest by March end.