OROP: Relief for Centre As Supreme Court Upholds Government Formula
NDTV
The Supreme Court said that there's no legal mandate that pensioners who hold the same rank must be given the same pension.
In a relief for the Centre, the Supreme Court today upheld the manner in which the government had introduced the "One Rank One Pension" scheme in defence forces as per its notification dated November 7, 2015.
"We find no constitutional infirmity in the principle OROP adopted," the court said, adding that there's no legal mandate that pensioners who hold the same rank must be given the same pension.
The Centre had argued that the same rank alone cannot be the criteria for the same pension and that the length of service also needs to be considered.
OROP is short for "One Rank One Pension", which aims at pension uniformity for armed forces personnel retiring at the same rank with the same length of service.
