Families of missing personnel, including those faultily declared deserters but whose whereabouts remain unknown, are eligible for grant of family pension. The family pension in such cases was supposed to commence after one year of lodging of ‘missing report’ with the police under currently applicable orders. This period was however decreased to 6 months by the Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare after the 6th CPC and the same has now been separately notified by the MoD also.
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It is however another story that most of our Record Offices remain blissfully unaware of such provisions and continue to deny pension to affected families on the pretext of desertion and ex-parte dismissal under the 3 year / 10 year desertion clause.
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