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IESM INTERACTION WITH 7th CPC - 24 SEP 2014
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IESM INTERACTION WITH 7th CPC - 24 SEP 2014
Dear
Veterans
1. IESM delegation
consisting of the following met the 7th CPC for over an hour on 24th Sep
2014.
(a) Maj Gen Satbir Singh Chairman IESM
(a) Maj Gen Satbir Singh Chairman IESM
(b) Maj Gen PK
Renjen Vice Chairman IESM
(c) Gp Capt VK
Gandhi Gen Sec IESM
(d) Maj Gen AJB
Jaini Member Gov Body
(e) Hony Lt K Pandey
Member Gov Body
2. The following members
and the officials of the 7th CPC were present:-
(a) Justice AK
Mathur Chairman 7 CPC
(b) Sh Mudit
Mittal Director 7 CPC
(c) Sh DK
Rai Director 7 CPC
(d) Ms Meena
Aggarwal Secretary 7CPC
(e) Sh Sameer K
Sinha Jt Sec 7 CPC
(f) Sh Rajeev
Misra Advisor
(g) Sh Y
Shukla Advisor
(h) Sh Mohinder
Singh Advisor
(i) Km Vandana
Sirvastava CGDA
3. Indian Ex-Servicemen
Movement (IESM) Chairman Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd) had met members of the
Commission earlier in May 2014, wherein recommendations by the IESM in brief
were discussed.
4. A detailed Memorandum
to 7th CPC was forwarded by IESM vide our letter dated 11 Aug 2014
5. During the meeting with
the 7th CPC on 24 Sep 2014 the following major issues were
discussed:-
(a)
Start of Down-gradation of Defence personnel in 1973 3rd CPC. It
was highlighted by the IESM Delegation that the down-gradation of military
persons started with 3rd CPC when they were clubbed with the civilian employees.
Till 1973, military persons had their own pay and pension regulations wherein,
pensions were regulated based on the rank and the years of service. Pension of
JCOs/OR were based on 75% of the last pay drawn and officers’ pension was 50% of
the last pay drawn, whereas the pensions of civilian employees were worked out
based on 33% of the last pay drawn with max Rs 416.50. The pension of the
highest rank of defence forces was Rs 1000 pm. The 3rd CPC increased the
pensions of civilian to 50% of the last pay drawn and reduced the pensions of
JCOs/ORs from 75% to 50%. This resulted in reduction of pension of the defence
personnel. It was here onwards that the down-gradation of military personnel
started. Rajya Sabha Petition Committee on OROP Chaired by Mr. Bhagat Singh
Koshyari in 2011 opined that the decision to club the defence personnel with the
civilian employees in 1973 was not a considered decision. IESM emphasized that
the 7th CPC should correct the injustice by restoring the pension differential
that existed in 1973.
(b)
Integration of OROP in 7th CPC. The delegation asked the
members
of 7th CPC that OROP,
which has already been sanctioned by the Govt and not yet implemented, should be
fully integrated in the 7th CPC.
One of the Directors with
the 7th CPC Sh. DK Rai brought out that the OROP has relief of only few rupees
to the OR/JCOs. The IESM delegation strongly countered the statement and brought
out that as per accepted definition of OROP, a Sepoy with 17 years of services
stands to gain Rupees 3150 in his basic pension plus DA and not a few Rupees. It
was brought out by the Chairman IESM, Maj Gen Satbir Singh that a Sepoy with 17
years of service and Pre 2006 retiree gets a pension of Rs 5,196 pm. With the
implementation of OROP, he will get Rs 8350 pm basic plus DA additional. IESM
delegation emphasized that 7th CPC must fully integrate OROP, while arriving at
the pension of 7th CPC.
(c)
Pension of Widows. It was brought out by the delegation that there
are 6.45 lacs defence widows in the country and 85% of them are the widows of
OR. Majority of them draw only Rs 3500 pm basic. It was strongly recommended
that service pension of the ESM and the family pension should be same. If the
spouse dies, the ESM continues to draw his/her pension, but when ESM, dies the
pension is reduced to 60% of the ESM pension. Thus, the defence widow is left to
fend for herself with her woes increasing many fold. This segment of the defence
fraternity suffers the most. 7th CPC was requested to consider this
sympathetically and enhance the family pension to the pension of the ESM. A
question from Chairman 7th CPC justice AK Mathur that the other services would
also demand this increase of family pension, was replied by Maj Gen Satbir Singh
that the two cannot be compared.
Defence families suffer
while the spouse is serving due to the service conditions and continues to
suffer more when they are widowed early.
(d)
Defence Personnel Retire Early and also Die Early. The
age
expectancy of government
employees was studied by a government agency in the 5th CPC. The following age
expectancies were arrived at:-
a) Civilian
Services 77 Yrs
b) Railway
Employees 78 Yrs
c) Defence
Personnel
i) OR (up to
Hav) 59.6 – 64 Yrs **BACK HOME**
ii)
JCOs 67 Yrs
iii)
Officers 72.5 Yrs
It is seen that ORs die
approximately 20 years, JCOs 15 years and officers 7 years earlier than their
civilian counterparts. There are a number of reason, the most important being
body wear and tear during service and stress and strain of life after retirement
when their responsibilities are maximum. It was strongly recommended by the
delegation, that this aspect must be kept in mind by the 7th CPC while arriving
at the pension scales of the defence personnel. This also adds to the logic of
award of enhanced percentages of pensions to the defence personnel as existed in
Pre 1973.
(e) Disability
Pension. It was recommended by the delegation that “The present
disability pension in cases of discharge/ superannuation/retirement with a
disability is authorized only to those personnel who have a disability of 20% or
more whereas in cases of discharge on medical grounds, the 20% stipulation
stands abrogated. All individuals irrespective of the percentage of disability
should be granted compensation. Disability pension needs to be paid in ALL cases
of disability and broad-banding of percentages of disability be extended to all
(and not just invalided personnel as is the case at present) as the concept of
broad-banding is to offset medical subjectivity and mistakes and arbitrary
percentages awarded by medical boards and has no connection with the manner of
exit from service. Moreover, all disabilities arising during military service,
including while on authorized leave, should be deemed as ‘attributable or at
least aggravated’ by service unless caused by the person’s own misconduct as is
the system prevalent in all major democracies (See Rule 105 of United States
Code 38). It may be pertinent to point out that the Rules already provide for
such a stipulation (See Rule 5 of Entitlement Rules, 1982) and even the Hon’ble
Supreme Court has already ruled in favour of disabled soldiers in this regard in
Dharamvir Singh Vs UOI, civil appeal 4949/2013 decided on 02nd July 2013. Only
condition to deny disability pension would be if the disability is a result of
any misconduct or criminality. There should be a separate 'Defence Services
Pay Committee' (as promised by the former Prime Minister) comprising members
from Defence Services/ veterans and judges from SC/ HC.
(f) Common Pay
Scale of JCOs and ORs. IESM recommended that common Pay scales should
also be extended to JCOs/OR so that they get benefited for the
pension.
(g) Rank Pay
Case. The Govt of India approved the 4th CPC Recommendations of Rank Pay
to be added to the basic Pay of officers ranks Captain to Brigadier. This would
have had cascading effect on even Maj Gen & Lt Gen and would have, in turn
impacted on the pensions of defence officers. Despite the above approval, in the
execution stage, this advantage was neutralized by a bureaucratic manipulation,
by first deducting and then adding rank pay. This resulted in the basic pay
being lowered from the earlier level and had a detrimental effect on each rank
with relative equation to other services being lowered. This further had
cascading affecting on successive Pay Commissions. After the SC judgment in
favour of defence personnel, the Govt has still not fully implemented it. The
revisions of pay scales of 4th, 5th and 6th Pay Commissions have not yet been
carried out.
IESM delegation emphasized
that 7th CPC should arrive at the base figures after taking into consideration
the complete implementation of the SC judgment and the same be suitably
integrated in the 7th CPC recommendations.
(h) Rank Pay For
JCOs and ORs. Rank Pay should also be extended to JCOs and
ORs.
(j) Third Assured
Career Progression for the Sepoy. Third Career progression authorised to
all central government employees by the 6th CPC is not available to the Sepoy of
armed Forces since he is retired after 15/17/19 years of service whereas the
third promotion is authorised after 24 years of service. It was recommended that
this disadvantage be removed by the 7th CPC. Either, he be given promotion after
5/10/15 years of services or he should be given pension of the 3rd
promotion.
(k) Pensions
of Pre 2004 retiree Majors and Selection Grade Lt
Cols.
IESM brought out that as
on today, Armed Forces Officers are not retiring as Majs and selection grade Lt
Cols since a time bound promotions up to Lt Col have been introduced. It was
recommended that pensions of these categories of officers should be fixed as
under:-
(i)
Major should be given pension of Lt Col with grade pay of
Majors.
(ii)
Selection grade Lt Col should be given pension of Colonel with grade pay of Lt
Col.
(l)
Performance Related incentive scheme (PRIS). This scheme was
accepted by the 6th CPC, that is 1/3rd of the population of employees can be
granted 20% of basic pay as enhancement on account of
PRIS.
While the scheme has been
implemented for the civilian employees and DRDO, the same has not yet been
implemented for the defence personnel.
It was recommended that
the same should also be extended to defence personnel.
(m) Dynamic
Assured Carrier Progression (DCAP) For Medical
Officers.
Medical officers in the
central government with 13 years of service and 20 years of service have been
granted a grade pay of Rs 8,700 and Rs 10,000 respectively. While the scheme has
been implemented for the civilian Doctors, the same has not yet been extended to
the medical officers of the Army Medical Corps (AMC). The same was recommended
to be implemented for Military doctors also.
6. In addition the 7th CPC
was requested to sympathetically consider all other recommendation mentioned in
our Memorandum. Important of these recommendations are:-
(a) All anomalies of
3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th CPCs be resolved to arrive at the base figures for the 7th
CPC.
(b) The Basic Pay
and Pensions of Defence Personnel should be year-wise 25% higher than their
civilian counterparts. Introduce a Common Pay Scale for all Govt of India
employees, incorporating an year-wise increase. There will be two tables of
basic pay scales one encompassing PB1 and 2; and the other PB3, 4, HAG, HAG+,
and Fixed Grade. These would thus cover All Grades from the lowest to the
highest. This will bring in simplicity in concept and implementation (Graph
Refers).
(c) MSP should be as
was recommended by the 6th CPC ie 64% of basic pay for JCOs and ORs and 52% of
basic for officers.
7. Copy of the updated
Memorandum was handed over to the Chairman and members of 7th
CPC.
8. The aim of the Govt and
in turn the 7th CPC, as far as the Defence Forces are concerned, is to so
package the compensation in term of pay, pensions, allowances and other service
conditions that the most suitable youth is attracted to the profession and
shortages of over 14000 officers is made up at the earliest to give the required
leadership punch at the cutting edge of the Defence
Forces.
9. The meeting was held in
a very cordial environment and all the members and the staffs of the 7th CPC
were very responsive and positive to the issues discussed. IESM thanked the
Chairman 7th CPC and members for affording us the opportunity to discuss our
recommendation and suggested that IESM will be privileged to answer any query
and come again for any discussion.
With
Regards,
Jai
Hind
Yours
Sincerely,
Maj Gen (Retd) Satbir
Singh, SM
Chairman Indian ESM
Movement
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0124-4110570
Email: satbirsm@gmail.com
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