Status Report on Implementation of OROP Benefits

Status Report on Implementation of OROP Benefits

ONE RANK ONE PENSION
A Status Report

Government of India notified the OROP Scheme vide order dated 7th November 2015 delineating the principles of OROP Scheme and the implementation process. This was followed by detail order on OROP Scheme dated 3rd February 2016 enclosing 101 Tables of revised benefits under the scheme, which were made available to various categories of Defence forces pensioners and family pensioners. A circular was also immediately issued on 4th February 2016 to all pension disbursing authorities containing detail instructions for making revise payments under the scheme.

2. The Defence Accounts Department was closely associated with the OROP scheme and undertook the following activities in the entire process-

• Collection, collation and presentation of variety of data and records of Defence pensioners for working out the financial implications.
• Assisting the DESW/MOD and PMO in finalizing the principles for rolling out the OROP Scheme.
• Working out more than 100 tables of various categories of pensioners revising the rates of pensions under OROP and formulation of government letter on the OROP.
• Issue of detailed payment instructions to all payment authorities for time bound payments.
• Initiating a dialogue with Banks who account for 75% Defence pension disbursements and closely monitoring release of payments well before the prescribed timelines.
• The DPDOs became the first disbursing agency to have credited the revised benefits under OROP in a record time to the accounts of 2,21,205 Defence Pensioners on 29th February 2016 amounting to Rs.354 Crores.

3. All the offices dealing with pension matters right from PCDA(P), PCDA (Navy), CDA/JCDA(AF), CDA (PD), CDA Chennai, the Aashraya team and the DPDOs rose to the occasion and carried out the tasks assigned to them in the most professional manner and well within the times-lines so prescribed. The agencies in the department worked as a well-knit team in a collaborative effort.

4. Another first was the dialogue, which was initiated with all the public sector Banks in advance taking them on board in the massive exercise of ensuring that time bound payments are made to lakhs of Defence pensioners. The mandate could be achieved successfully by advance planning,concerted follow up action and continuous dialogue with all stakeholders.

The latest update on release of pension benefits under OROP is enclosed.

Status Report on Implementation of OROP Benefits
(Status reported by Banks as on 02.04.2016)

Sl.No	Name of PDA	Cases in which pension revised and arrears paid			Total Cases Paid	Amount disbursed (Rs.In crore)
		Service Pension	Family Pension	Disability Pension
1	DPDOS	2,01,212	98,745	28,957	3,28,914	636.9
2	State Bk Of India	6,28,521	1,07,488	49,034	7,85,043	1337
3	PNB	1,76,047	32,290	16437	2,24,774	397.13
4	SBBJ	Information Not Available
5	SB Patiala	20,093	1,437	2,253	23,783	NA
6	SB Hyderabad	4,679	882	513	6,074	15.06
7	SB Mysore	4.088	1.035	409	5.532	13.1
8	SB Travancore	30,790	5,578	2742	39,110	NA
9	Allahabad Bank	Information Not Available
10	Andhra Bank	4,311			4,311	9.99
11	Axis Bank	426	18	38	482	1.83
12	Bank Of Baroda	9,760	1,603	2	11,365	33.28
13	Bank Of India	17169			17,169	36.93
14	BO Maharashtra	14,328	1,152	133	15,613	40.4
15	Canara Bank	19,036	9,320	939	29,295	74,46
16	Central Bank	27,106	7,052	1,763	35,921	104.96
17	Corporation Bank	851	435	78	1,364	NA
18	Dena Bank	1,501	569	12	2,082	5.33
19	HDFC Bank	Information Not Available
20	ICICI Bank	721	28	150	899	NA
21	IDBI Bank	83	10	10	103	0.62
22	IOB	9799	1936	188	11,923	21.45
23	Indian Bank	9605	3656	778	14,039	32.55
24	OBC	3751	1260	479	5,490	12.7
25	PSB	6185			6,185	NA
26	Syndicate Bank	19786	4685	1119	25,590	94.3
27	UCO Bank	Information Not Available
28	Union Bank	10099	2232		12,331	27.38
29	United Bank	Information Not Available
30	Vijaya Bank	812	79	58	949	3.11
	Total				16,08.341	2.898.48

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