Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
today said the ‘one rank, one pension’ policy would be implemented in the defence forces
before the next Budget.
“One rank, one pension policy
will be implemented. We are right now working on its detailing,” Parrikar said. The implementation has lot of financial
implications which are being worked out, he said.
“It has a lot of financial
implications. Details would be available only once we work it out,” Parrikar
said.
‘One rank, one pension’
policy means soldiers of the same rank and same length of service get the same pension irrespective
of their retirement date. Parrikar said the announcement to
implement the policy was made in the last Budget.
“Now we will have to implement it. I
have kept a target that it will be implemented before the next Budget. My effort is to ensure that it should be implemented as soon as
possible. My target is that it should not wait for the next Budget,” he said.
Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha
recently, the Congress had accused
the government of delaying the
implementation of the scheme. The OROP had been announced in the Interim Budget in February, but was yet to be implemented, Congress MP from
Rohtak, Deepender Hooda, said in Parliament.
Deepender Hooda accused
the bureaucracy of trying to dilute the original meaning of OROP
as defined by the Koshiyari Committee, which was the petition committee of
the Rajya Sabha. Hooda had asked the government to come out and announce the
implementation of OROP. — PTI