Military Veterans Welfare
ECHS is providing dedicated service for the veterans but some points, as raised by the Veterans ECHS & CSD Welfare Forum seeking resolutions for the grievances of ECHS beneficiaries is descrtibed here. Despite the outlined provisions for healthcare, ECHS beneficiaries have reported multiple instances of refusal of services, additional charges being imposed and lack of … Read more
Planning to visit the tourist places of various placed in India. Don’t worry, avail the Indian Army’s Holiday Home and enjoy your tourism. Ministry of Defence has established Holiday Homes for all ranks in various tourist places / pilgrimage & cities of India. The Holiday homes have been authorized and constructed at a number of … Read more
In this article you will know how to calculate disability pension and impairement relief. Basically LMC soldiers are entitled compensation whcih can be categorised as following (a) Disability Pension comprises Service element and Disability element(b) War Injury Pension comprises Service element and War Injury element(c) Liberalized Disability Pension comprises Service element and Liberalized Disability element(d) … Read more
FIGHT FOR RIGHT : PAY FIXATION OF REEMPLOYED JCOS/OR How Long we Need to Wait for Pay Fixation ? Says veteran Group reemployed in Central/State/PSU/Autonomus Civil services. It is well known that Exservicemen reemployed in vrious nationalised banks are getting Pay Protection and their last pay drawn is protected whiled employed in banks quoting the … Read more
Enhanced rate of pension is applicable to family pensioners which were earlier regulated as per pension regulations for the concerned services. Now, a special amendment has been issued to remove the restrictions of minimum qualifying service considering the sacrifice for the nation. Detailed instruction is appended here. Tele: 011-21410540 BY REGISTERED POSTDirectorate of Pay & … Read more
Notional increment related orders of the Appex Court has been implemented by the Department/ministries and pensionary benefit has already been extended to all the applicants. The Hon’ble Supreme Court has ordered/allowed the grant of one annual increment to the petitioners retiring on 30th June and 31st December, which they earned on the last day of … Read more
We never think about our ultimate destinaion of the life. But it is the only truth that one day we have to leve this beautiful. Before the day come, we must educate our family members about the process to be followed after our last breath as, in civil, no one can help you in military … Read more
OROP-3rd revision is effective wef 01.07.2024. Govt has published approval for the all concerned to revise the pension of all applicable veterans and family pensioners on 04.09.25024. PCDA (P), Prayagraj has also issued Circular No. 677. But the things whcih is mostly enquired by the ESM are discussed here in the form of FAQ. FAQ … Read more
SPASH is now an integrated part of your life. So, many a times, it has been found that the SPARSH nodal officers are not able solve your problem directly at PCDA, Pension. In such case you need to approach your Record office cencerned. In this article you may find detailed list of all Record offices … Read more
OROP 3rd revision has been approved by the Ministry of Defence and DESW has published official instructions to implement by the concerrned pension payment authorities. PCDA is the major implementing authority and they have now released a circular No 677 dated 06.09.2024 regarding modalities of implementation of OROP 3rd revision. Thge copy of the circular … Read more
After death of Ex-serviceman, following pension and other welfare grants are admissible :- Ordinary Family Pension (OFP) When an officer/JCOs/OR dies due to natural causes neither attributable to nor aggravated by mil service, the NoK is entitled to OFP. This is applicable to serving Offrs/JCOs/OR and for retired Offrs/JCOs/OR also. Types of OFP are as under … Read more
Grocery items and Liquor can be bought direcctly from any CSD as per your entitlement. AFD-I items can be bought affter a certain yers of interval only. You must Know Your Latest CSD Purchase Entitlement for Liquor Grocery and AFD Items. A Detailed information is given here which includes Liquor, Grocery, AFD-II and AFD-I items … Read more
Notional increment related orders of the Appex Court has been implemented by the Department/Ministries and pensionary benefit has already been extended to all the applicants. The Hon’ble Supreme Court has ordered/allowed the grant of one annual increment to the petitioners retiring on 30th June and 31st December, which they earned on the last day of … Read more
KSB has introduced Dependent card for family members of ex-servicemen. Many of you are thinking of getting a Dependent ID Card from your Zila Sainik Board for your family members i.e wife, children, parents etc. Before applying for the card, you should know some important information in this regard. Dependent cards for family members of … Read more
After official notification and publication of OM on implementtion of 3rd Revision under One Rank One Pension Scheme is likely to be implemented as per instructions of MoD, DESW as per the Government Orders effective from 01.07.2024 and payment of arrears accrued on account of revision of pension, if any, expected to be made within … Read more
Revision of Pension of Defence Forces Personnel/ Family Pensioner under One Rank One Pension (OROP) w.e.f-01.07.2024 One Rank One Pension has now been implemented for the 3rd time and the revision of pension in terms of the Government Orders shall be effective from 01.07.2024 and payment of arrears accrued on account of revision of pension, … Read more
OROP Judgment SummaryOne Rank One Pension 17th Mar 2022 On March 16th 2022, Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Surya Kant upheld the Union Government’s One Rank One Pension (OROP) policy. OROP is a system of paying uniform pension to armed forces servicemen retiring at the same rank and with the same years of service, irrespective of the date of retirement. The pension of a … Read more
OFFICE OF THE PR. CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS)DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014 Circular No. 555 Dated: 04.02.2016 To, 1. The Chief Accountant, RBI,Deptt. Of Govt, Bank Accounts,Central Office C-7, Second Floor,Bandre- Kurla Complex, P B No. 8143,Bandre East Mumbai- 400051 2. All CMDs, Public Sector Banks.3. The Nodal Officers, ICICI/HDFC/AXIS/IDBI Banks4. All Managers, CPPCs5. Military … Read more
OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS) DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014 Circular No. 666 Dated: 20th Jan 2023 To 1. The Chief Accountant, RBI, Deptt. of Govt, Bank Accounts, Central Office C-7, Second Floor, Bandra – Kurla Complex, P B No. 8143, Bandra East Mumbai-4000512. All CMDs, Public Sector Banks,3. The Nodal Officers, … Read more
Defence Ministry has initiated many schemes to provide welfare measures for the veterans and family members of the Armed Forces Personnel and Officers. MoU signed by the Flame University and Indian Airforce to provide quality education with huge Fee Concession is reproduced below. To get benefit kindly visit the official website of the Flame University … Read more