March 24, 2023 7:30 am
On Monday, the SC asked the government to clear OROP dues for pensioners by February-end of next year in three equal instalments.
March 20, 2023 5:10 pm
Apex court refuses to accept Centre’s sealed cover note on payment of dues, says it is "fundamentally contrary to the basic process of fair justice."
March 20, 2023 7:06 am
In the compliance note of March 17, the Defence Ministry said its budget outlay for financial year 2022-23 is Rs 5.85 lakh crore, of which approximately Rs 1.32 lakh crore is planned expenditure for total pension disbursement.
March 14, 2023 3:48 am
Fixing the matter for hearing next on March 20, the court also asked the AG to provide the court by then a note explaining what had been done and what remained.
December 23, 2022 11:50 pm
The revision would be applicable to all retired defence personnel up to June 30, 2019, but not including those who took pre-mature retirement till July 1, 2014. The government said the revision would benefit over 25.13 lakh pensioners, including 4.52 lakh more recent retirees, and their families.
March 31, 2022 3:17 am
The ex-Servicemen association had sought the implementation of OROP as recommended by the Bhagat Singh Koshyari Committee with an automatic annual revision, instead of the current policy of periodic review once in five years.
February 02, 2015 12:54 am
One rank, one pension scheme has been a long-standing demand of over 2 million ex-servicemen in the country.
April 11, 2014 5:09 pm
Amarinder said the ex-servicemen would start getting benefit of the scheme within a month or so.
February 17, 2014 4:16 pm
It is a historic and necessary step, said Rahul as he thanked Prime Minister for the scheme.














