Restoration of pay fixation benefit on promotion from the post of SO(A) to AAO

Restoration of pay fixation benefit on promotion from the post of SO(A) to AAO during the period 01.01.2006 to 29.08.2008 CONTROLLER GENERAL OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS Ulan Batar Road, Palam, Delhi Cantt-110010 IMPORTANT CIRCULAR No. LC/AN/XIV/14142/OA-489/2011/S.V.K.Naidu Dated 08 .07.2014 To The All the PCsDA/CsDA PC of A(Fys). (Through CGDA Mail Server) Sub: Restoration of pay fixation…

One Rank One Pension – Rs. 1000 crores allocated in Budget 2014

One Rank One Pension – Rs. 1000 crores allocated in Budget 2014 for implementing OROP for Soldiers PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU GOVERNMENT OF INDIA *** DEFENCE ALLOCATION RAISED TO RS 2,29,000 CRORE CAPITAL OUTLAY FOR DEFENCE MODERNIZATION INCREASED BY RS 5,000 CRORE New Delhi: July 10, 2014 Ashadha 19,1936 Allocation for defence in this year’s General Budget…

Delay in implementation of One Rank One Pension

Delay in implementation of One Rank One Pension – Ex-Servicemen organisation express blames bureaucracy The Odisha unit of the Indian Ex-Services League today blamed the bureaucracy for non-implementation of the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to all the defence personnel despite the UPA government’s announcement to this effect.Indian Army “All these days, the…

25% increase in allowances – Automatic increase – CGDA Clarification

25% increase in allowances when DA goes up by 50% – Automatic increase when there is a special clause in the original order – CGDA Clarification Order CGDA has clarified that 25% increase in Allowances (which are linked with increase in DA whenever it goes up by 50%) can be increased automatically without any specific…

50% Disability Pension awarded to Ex-Serviceman nearly after 30 years

Contradicting Medical Board reports led to non-payment of Disability Pension to disabled ex-serviceman – Armed Forces Tribunal orders for payment of 50% Disability pension nearly after three decades The opinion of medical board should be given primary credence and the authority of Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (PCDA) (Pensions) for awarding disability pension is very limited, said…

Improvement of Pre-2006 commissioned Officers – Clarification

OROP – Implementation of the Govt. decision on the recommendations of Committee on the issue related to Defence Service personnel and Ex-Servicemen —For pre-2006 commissioned Officers OFFICE OF THE PR. CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS) DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014 MOST IMPORTANT CIRCULAR Circular No. 525 Dated: 24.02.2014   Subject: Implementation of the Govt. decision on…

Ex-Gratia payable to Reservists and families of Reservists

Enhancement of amount of Ex-Gratia payable to Reservists and families of Reservists OFFICE OF THE PR. CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS) DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD– 211014 Circular No. 521 Dated: 30.12.2013. Subject: – Enhancement of amount of Ex-Gratia payable to Reservists and families of Reservists. Reference: -This office circular No. 278 dated 29.03.2001. Consequent on issue of Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence letter No 1(06)/2010-D (Pen/Policy) dated 22.11.2013 (copy…

One Rank one Pension – Minister instructs MOD to implement

One Rank One Pension – Ministry of Defence has been instructed by Defence Minister to implement one rank one pension soon Defence Minister A K Antony on Thursday directed his ministry’s accounts department to immediately take steps for implementation of the ‘One Rank-One Pension’ decision. At a meeting chaired by him here on Wednesday evening,…

Rounding off the amount of Increment to next multiple of 10 – Clarification

Rounding off the amount of Increment to next multiple of 10 – Clarification issued by CGDA Attention is invited to this HQrs Circular No. AN/XIV/14162/6th CPC/Circular/Vol.IV, dt. 29/0212012 wherein it was directed to adopt the methodology stipulated in Rule 7(Note 2A), Rule 9 and Rule 11 of GoI, MoF notification, dated 29/08/2008 (RPR 2008) for rounding off at the time of fixation of pay while…

Waiving of excess amount of Non-Practicing Allowance

Waiving of excess amount of Non-Practicing Allowance (NPA) paid to Pre-1996 retired Armed Forces Doctors OFFICE OF THE PCDA (PENSIONS), DRAUPADI GHAT ALLAHABAD-14 Circular No. 18 Date: 14.02.2014 Subject:- Waiving of excess amount of Non-Practicing Allowance (NPA) paid to Pre-1996 retired Armed Forces Doctors. Reference:- This office important circular No. 5 bearing file No. G-1/M/01/ICOs/NPA dated 29.01.2009. (Available on this office Website www.pcdapension.nic.in) The reference is invited towards this office important circular referred above (enclosed as Annexure ‘A’)…

Defence Personnel and Civilian Govt Employees – A comparison

Defence personnel are at a great disadvantage in respect of pay, pension and medical benefits compared with civilian government employees – Frontline Article OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, EX-SERVICEMEN have been agitating against the injustice meted out to them by the Central government. They have lost faith in the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (DESW), created specifically to take care…