Appeal to Veteran(Gen) Satbir Singh,Vice President IESM and others by Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.

APPEAL BY VETERAN PRABHJOT SINGH CHHATWAL PLS RETD.
Earlier made on 31July,2009 to Respected Veteran (Gen.)
Satbir Singh,Vice President, IESM on IESM blog being repeated.

Dear Veteran (Gen)) Satbir Singh and others
Regards. Would you kindly allow me to comment on
your e-message?

It has been repeated,a number of times, on
IESM blog that Govt. of India has not
acceded to our demand of ONE RANK ONE
PENSION, so far.

So called announcement of grant of ONE RANK ONE PENSION
for PBORs in the Budget Speech, was in fact, implementation
of Punjab & Haryana High Court decision regarding removal
of anomaly concerning only JCOs and below which was created
(after Fifth CPC) with the issuance of Govt. letter dt. 10-10-1997
(R) 10-10-1997 and the same was not implemented so far. JCOs.
and below are well aware of it.

Secondly, grant of special grade to Lt. Gen. is to place them on
equal footing with civil officers as a result of up gradation of
Higher Administrative Grade (HAG).

A mail from IESM blog is appended below which will support
my statement.
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Recent announcements : A dissection by Navdeep
Friday, July 24, 2009 Recent announcements:
A dissection Well,
The public at large has been talking of the recent sops announced
for defence pensioners. The starting point was the Union Budget
speech. The following are the major ‘steps’ that have been taken
to address the issues:
1. Bridging the gap between pre-Oct 1997 and post-Oct 1997
pensioners.
2. Removal of 33 years’ qualifying service condition for earning
full pension.
3. Grant of a separate scale for Lt Generals But the
truth is somewhat like this:
Point No 1 is a resultant of an order
of the Hon’ble Punjab & Haryana High Court which has been
upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court so there was no escaping
this by the Govt.
Point No 2 is a resultant of the recommendations
of the 6th CPC and the same has also been accepted for civilians,
so what extra has been initiated for faujis in this ?
Point No 3 is also a resultant of a Finance Ministry missive
by way of which the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) on the
civil side has been upgraded to Rs. 67000-79000, something
that has been applied to our Lt Generals too in a parallel fashion.

I would again reiterate, that this play of words is the work of
some lower level spin doctors who do not let our Ministers,
Parliamentarians, top bureaucrats and top brass understand
the minute modalities of such matters. They have led the top
echelons to believe that much special has been done for defence
pensioners but the truth is quite removed from reality.
It is not an obligation that Hon’ble SC orders have been
implemented and again not quite an ehsaan that the changes
such as removal of 33 years’ service requirement for full pension
or grant of HAG, changes which as it is have been initiated in the
universal pension and pay regime, have been duly extended to
the defence services. I say it again, it’s time for the higher civilian
and military establishment to wake up before the army of promoted
lower bureaucracy takes the system and the nation for a ride.
Information which should ideally reach top political, civil and
military echelons is filtered by the heavy tentacles and thick
mesh of lower bureaucracy, a malaise which is eating into whatever
progress we are making.
There is only one answer to this: proper application of mind on file
noting and minute sheets initiated from below. Let us stop affixing
ghuggis and start imposing our grey matter on the noting of the
supervised staff.
Posted by Navdeep / Maj Navdeep Singh at 7:42 AM 21 comments
Labels: law, Misc, Pay Commission, Pension
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Now Sir, when it is amply clear that an anomaly pertaining
to JCOs. And below personnel only is being removed by the
government, let it be in the garb of OROP, why should the big
brothers (who earlier acted as saviors of ex-servicemen
community) take such step to compel the govt. to shelve the
move by which JCOs and below are going to be benefited in
their pension from Rs. 1,000/- to Rs.1800/- P.M. as per their rank.

I assure you, Dear Gen, JCOs below Personnel are not (R) not
averse to demand of OROP but at the same time they can not
forego what is due to them as a result of removal this anomaly.
They will again march with you for the demand of OROP but
for, God sake, let this anomaly be removed first in the same
way as the anomalies in respect of Lt. General, Maj. General
and Lieutenant Cols. stood removed without a single word of
protest from any segment of ESM.

I hope my communiqué will not (R) not be
miss-understood by my brethren veterans.

Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS (Retd.)
President,
Indian Ex-Services League, Punjab & Chandigarh.
Mob.098554-09128 Tele-Fax 0175-5000896.