OROP Arrears Payment in Record Time
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Dated: 21-March-2016
OROP Arrears Payment in Record Time
The Government of India which accords utmost importance to the welfare of Ex-Servicemen, has kept its promise with regard to the historic decision taken on 05 September 2015 to implement the more than four decades old demand of Ex-Servicemen for One Rank One Pension (OROP), by ensuring that payments have begun to the concerned in record time.
Orders had been issued with regard to this historic decision, through a notification on 07 November 2015 by the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (ESW) of the Ministry of Defence.
Then within just three months of the issue of these orders, the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (ESW) brought out detailed OROP tables on 03 February 2016, which are also available on their website www.desw.gov.in. The 101 tables in these implementation orders contain revised pension of different ranks and categories. In the past implementation of CSC-2012 and 6th CPC had taken a longer time.
More than two-thirds of the Ex-Servicemen have now been paid the OROP arrears. Payments have now reached the accounts of 13.02 lakh pensioners amounting to about Rs. 2,293 crore. This amount has been released through Defence Pension Disbursing Offices (DPDOs), the State Bank of India (SBI) and the Punjab National Bank (PNB).
The details are as follows:-
As on March 17, the DPDOs have released an amount of about Rs. 606 crore to about 3.20 lakh defence personnel.
The SBI has as released upto March 17 an amount of Rs. 1,337 crore to 7.75 lakh pensioners which includes Family Pension cases. The PNB has released as on March 17, an amount of about Rs. 350 crore to about 2.07 lakh pensioners which includes Family Pension cases.
Other Banks who have also been assigned the task of disbursement of revised defence pension to Ex-Servicemen have been directed to complete the process of payment latest by March end.
Source: PIB
nehru.b says
Hi,
This is Nehru B.
My mother is family pensioner and drawing family pension from State Bank of Mysore.
The bank has so far not given the OROP arrears and the response is verry poor.
My dads service no. 7004295 Ex Hav.
Omanakuttan Pillai KP says
I am an exserviceman and am drawing my defence pension from State bank of Trancore, but its unfortunate that the OROP arrears and revised pension has not been paid as yet i.e. till 02 Apr 2016 whereas Govt. Directives were to pay the arrears by end Mar’16.
Is the bank in a liberty to over-rule the Govt. Directives.
Can the concerned authorities pay heed to this and do the needful?
Needless to say, that the reply is expected.
Omanakuttan Pillai KP says
What about my one rank one pension. bank not given any arrears and pension.
Omanakuttan Pillai KP says
Sir, please intimate the pension and arrears of one rank one pension
JC214047A Ex Sub Maj Omanakuttan piullai KP Corps of Signals
Omanakuttan Pillai KP says
Sir, I am retired from corps of signals on 04 May 2004 as Sub Maj JC -214047A. but have not received any arrears against one rank one pension. So you are requested, please intimate the total benefit of my arrears and pension.