Centre Wants 3 More Months To Clear One Rank One Pension Arrears
NDTV
The government said it is seriously processing the matter in order to comply with the judgement and order passed by the court which will take some more time for implementation.
The Centre has moved the Supreme Court seeking extension of time till March 15, 2023 for payment of arrears of One Rank-One Pension (OROP) scheme to all eligible pensioners of the armed forces.
This is the second extension sought by the Union government to pay the arrears after it had first moved the top court in June and sought three months to compute and make payment.
The Supreme Court, which had on March 16 upheld the OROP principle adopted by the Centre saying it does not suffer from any "constitutional infirmity" and is not "arbitrary", had asked the government to pay the arrears within three months.
In its fresh application, the Centre said the Comptroller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) office was requested by the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (DESW) of Ministry of Defence to prepare the tables for next revision of pension in March 2022 immediately after the judgement of the Supreme Court dated March 16, 2022.
