Understanding The Unresolved Issues In OROP (One Rank One Pension) Implementation

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s announcement of the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) for military veterans was expected to bring closure to the 83-day-old protests at Jantar Mantar in the capital. The veterans have accepted OROP from July 1, 2014, with 2013 being the base year of calculation, while rejecting five of the six announcements. The points of disagreement are technical: the veterans want the pensions to be equalised every two years, while the government is willing to do so every five years; the veterans want the pension of old retirees to be fixed at the maximum of current retirees, while the government has agreed to fix it at the average of the maximum and minimum; the veterans wanted a five-member commission with military representation to submit its report on the anomalies in implementation within a month, while the government has set up a one-member judicial committee with a time-frame of six months. These technical minutiae can be resolved by the two sides after mutual consultations. - See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/one-rank-one-pension-stand-at-ease/#sthash.bXbuO0BR.dpuf