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Defence pensions in India. Defence pensions are pensions paid from the Defence Services Estimates. Approximately 36 percent of amount budgeted for defence pensions is on account of defence civilians. [1] The Defence pension bill for 2015–2016 was ₹ 54,500 crores, including pension outlay for about 400,000 defence civilians, and about Rs1000 ...
Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare (Poorva Senani Kalyan Vibhag) is a department in the Ministry of Defence, India. It was set up in 2004. [1] The head of Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare since its inception has been a bureaucrat from the IAS. [2] Veteran have for long demanded that DEWS be headed by a serving officers or a retired officer ...
Jeevan Pramaan is a Life Certificate program affiliated with Aadhaar for people with pensions. [1] It was started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 November 2014. [2][3] The certificate was made for people who receive pensions from central or state governments or other government organisations. [1]
One Rank One Pension (OROP), or "same pension, for same rank, for same length of service, irrespective of the date of retirement", is a longstanding demand of the Indian armed forces and veterans. [1]: p 1 The demand for pay-pension equity, which underlies the OROP concept, was provoked by the exparte decision by the Indira Gandhi -led Indian ...
The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is a ministry of the Government of India in personnel matters specially issues concerning recruitment, training, career development, staff welfare as well as the post-retirement dispensation. The ministry is also concerned with the process of responsive people-oriented modern administration.
Military retirement in the United States is a system of benefits designed to improve the quality and retention of personnel recruited to and retained within the United States military. These benefits are technically not a veterans pension, but a retainer payment, as retired service members are eligible to be reactivated.
The National Pension System (NPS) is a defined-contribution pension system in India regulated by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. [1] National Pension System Trust (NPS Trust) was established by PFRDA as per the provisions of the ...
On the other hand, service pensions were revamped. Same 33/80 formula was used to work out defence pensions. There was no change in rank criteria for earning pension. Pensions were granted as per rank held for two years. Improvements were done to base pensions on the maximum pay of the rank and not minimum/mean pay as was the case earlier.