The pay panel on Thursday in effect recommended one-rank-one-pension for all government employees, including those in paramilitary forces, while steering clear of using the term OROP.
The commission has recommended a revised pension formula for civil employees, including central armed and paramilitary forces personnel, as well as for defence personnel who have retired before January 1, 2016.
“This formulation will bring about parity between past pensioners and current retirees for the same length of service in the pay scale at the time of the retirement,“ said the 900-page report. Justice A K Mathur, head of the panel, said, “My principle is only this -today if a man retires, he must get the same pension as the person who retired 10 or 20 years back.“ Past pensioners will first be fixed in the pay matrix recommended by the commission on the basis of pay band and grade pay at which they retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the matrix. This notional entry pay will then be raised by 3% for each year of service and 50% of the amount thus obtained would be the new pension. Another calculation would simply multiply the current basic pension by 2.57. The pensioner would then have the option of getting the higher of the two calculations.
The recommendation comes weeks after the government ended a stand-off with armed forces pensioners on the OROP issue. Ironically , one of the main concerns the government had expressed was that giving in to the veterans' demand would trigger similar demands from civilians and paramilitary forces, thereby placing a huge burden on the exchequer.
Source : Timesofindia
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