Source: PIB
Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi commemorated a decade of the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme, highlighting it as a tribute to the dedication and sacrifices of India’s veterans and ex-service personnel.
About One Rank One Pension (OROP) Scheme:
- Definition: OROP ensures that uniform pensions are paid to personnel retiring in the same rank with identical service lengths, regardless of when they retired.
- Implementation year: The government approved OROP in 2015, with benefits retroactively effective from July 1, 2014.
- Pension Re-fixation: Pensions are re-fixed based on the average of the minimum and maximum pensions of 2013 retirees of the same rank and service length.
- Arrears: Arrears are paid in four half-yearly instalments, except for family pensioners and Gallantry awardees, who receive it in one instalment.
- Future revisions: Pensions will be re-fixed every five years.
- Nodal agency: Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence.
- Payment: Integrated within the standard pension, not a separate component.
- Exclusions: Personnel discharged voluntarily under specific military rules post-OROP implementation are not eligible.
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