Welfare Of Defence Personnel - "One Rank One Pension"

   A committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary to look in the issue of ‘One Rank One Pension and  other related issues’. After considering all aspects and keeping  in mind the spirit of the demand, several recommendations to  substantially improve pensionary benefits of Armed Forces

pensioners have been made, which have been accepted and are as  follows:-

(i) Inclusion of classification Allowance for PBOR from January  01, 2006.

(ii) Removal of linkage of full pension with 33 years from  January 01, 2006.

(iii) Revision of Lt General Pension after carving out a  separate pay scale for them.

(iv) Bringing parity between pension of pre and post October 10,  1997 PBOR pensioners.

(v) Further improving PBOR pensions based on award of Group of  Ministers 2006.


(vi) Broad banding percentage of disability /war injury pensions  for pre- January 01, 2006 disability/war  injury pensioners.

(vii) Removal of cap on war injury element of pension in the  case of disabled pensioners belong to Category E.

    Government orders in implementation of the same have been issued  on October 30, 2009, January 19, 2010, January 20, 2010 and  March 08, 2010. Approximately 12 lac pensioners are benefitted  by the recommendations.

    This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Shri  MM Pallam Raju in a written reply to Smt Sumitra Mahajan in Lok  Sabha today.

SOURCE - PIB