Data on Defence Pensioners in India - Details provided by CGDA

Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) has provided the data on Defence Pensioners as on 01.04.2015. Defence Accounts serves to 24.61 lakhs pensioners, spread across the country.

Details of Defence Pensioners in India CGDA has published the data on Defence Pensioners spread across the country.

Profile of Defence Pensioners

As on 01.04.2015 the Defence Accounts Department is servicing 24.61 lakhs pensioners, spread across the country.
The category wise details of pensioners is as under:

Sl.No.	Category	Number of Pensioners
1.	Commissioned Officers	58,754
2.	P.B.O.R.	18,40,809
3.	Defence Civilians	5,62,088
	Total	24,61,651

The details of pensioners drawing pension from various PDAs is summarized as under:

Sl.No.	Name of PDA	Number of Pensioners	Percentage
1.	Public/Private Sector Banks	18,42,092	74.83
2.	DPDOs	4,60,336	18.70
3.	Distt. Treasuries	60,752	2.47
4.	IE Nepal	92,876	3.77
5.	Post Office	4,496	0.18
6.	PAOs	1,099	0.05
	Total	24,61,651	100

On an average 45,000 Defence Forces personnel and Defence civilians retire every year and become part of pensioners’ strength. While working out the data‐base of pensioners as on a given date, average wastages out of the pensioners’ data base are worked out to arrive at the number of Defence pensioners on a particular date.

The Defence pensioners are spread over the length and breadth of the country. The major pockets having concentration of Defence pensioners are states of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala among others.

The Zone/State wise details of pensioners is enclosed in the accompanying Annexure – ‘A’.

Further, around 4.60 lakhs pensioners drawing pension from 63 Defence Pension Disbursement offices, which are also mapped in the accompanying Annexure – ‘B’.

Annexure – ‘A’

Number of pensioners (as per PCDA (P) records):

Sl.No.	Zone	State		Number of pensioners	Total	Percentage
1	North	1	J&K	83733	795670	32.32
		2	Himachal Pradesh	147963
		3	Punjab	273652
		4	Haryana	266809
		5	Chandigarh	23513
2	Central	1	Delhi	96509	461991	18.77
		2	Uttrakhand	86211
		3	Uttar Pradesh	221464
		4	Madhya Pradesh	52670
		5	Chhattisgarh	5137
3	West	1	Rajasthan	138216	352459	14.32
		2	Gujrat	18075
		3	Maharashtra	193495
		4	Goa	2673
4	South	1	Tamilnadu	115157	455993	18.53
		2	Karnataka	107834
		3	Kerala	166617
		4	Andhra Pradesh	64033
		5	Andaman& Nicobar; Lakshdeep	1040
		6	Pudduchery	1312
5	East	1	Bihar	110871	211032	8.57
		2	Jharkhand	9736
		3	West Bengal	69197
		4	Orrissa	21228
6	North- East	1	Sikkim	283	78351	3.18
		2	Assam	61295
		3	Arunachal Pradesh	1822
		4	Meghalaya	2766
		5	Manipur	5854
		6	Mizoram	2416
		7	Nagaland	1108
		8	Tripura	2807
7	Nepal	Indian Embassy Nepal		106156	106156	4.31
8	Grand Total				2461651	100

Annexure – ‘B’

DPDO details: State wise/Station wise

Sl No.	Name of DPDO	No. of pensioners	Percentage	Station/State	State wise percentage
1	DPDO, Chandigarh	5187	1.13	Chandigarh	1.13
2	DPDO, Red Fort-I Delhi	5789	1.26	Delhi	3.45
3	DPDO, Red Fort-II Delhi	4966	1.08
4	DPDO, Brar Square, Delhi Cantt	5128	1.11
5	DPDO, Ambala	9365	2.03	Haryana	18.57
6	DPDO, Bhiwani	12159	2.64
7	DPDO, Gurgaon	7373	1.6
8	DPDO, Hissar	4075	0.89
9	DPDO, Jhajjar	9448	2.05
10	DPDO, Karnal	6995	1.52
11	DPDO, Narnaul	8111	1.76
12	DPDO, Rewari	12562	2.73
13	DPDO, Rohtak	6797	1.48
14	DPDO, Sonipat	8616	1.87
15	DPDO, Amritsar	15790	3.43	Punjab	26.85
16	DPDO, Ferozepur	4073	0.88
17	DPDO, Batala	4882	1.06
18	DPDO, Bathinda	4524	0.98
19	DPDO, Kapurthala	4606	1
20	DPDO, Dasuya	10165	2.21
21	DPDO, Pathankot	6591	1.43
22	DPDO, Patiala	8317	1.81
23	DPDO, Ropar	7286	1.58
24	DPDO, Sangrur	7478	1.62
25	DPDO, Gurdaspur	6112	1.33
26	DPDO, Ludhiana	11801	2.56
27	DPDO, Hoshiarpur	9703	2.11
28	DPDO, Jagraon	4374	0.95
29	DPDO, Moga	5980	1.3
30	DPDO, Jalandhar	11977	2.6
31	DPDO, A/R Jammu	10290	2.24	J&K	9.25
32	DPDO, S/N Jammu	9742	2.12
33	DPDO, Leh	3791	0.82
34	DPDO, Srinagar	5612	1.22
35	DPDO, Udhampur	7940	1.73
36	DPDO, Rajouri	5174	1.12
37	DPDO, Jaipur	4412	0.96	Rajasthan	2.26
38.	DPDO, Jhunjhunu	6003	1.30	Rajasthan	2.26
39.	DPDO, Mandi	5775	1.25	H.P.	10.22
40.	DPDO, Hamirpur	10372	2.25
41.	DPDO, Shimla	5529	1.20
42.	DPDO, Una	5571	1.21
43.	DPDO, Yol	6206	1.35
44.	DPDO, Palampur	8394	1.82
45.	DPDO, Dharamshala	5230	1.14
46.	DPDO, Meerut	9509	2.07	U.P.	5.27
47.	DPDO, Kanpur	5534	1.20
48.	DPDO, Allahabad	5922	1.29
49.	DPDO, Gorakhpur	3271	0.71
50.	DPDO Dehradun	2519	0.55	Uttrakhand	0.55
51.	DPDO, Kolkata	4268	0.93	West Bengal	0.93
52.	DPDO, Hydrabad	4438	0.96	A.P.	3.19
53.	DPDO, Secunderabad	6792	1.48
54.	DPDO, Visakhapatnam	3431	0.75
55.	DPDO, Bangluru	7265	1.58	Karnataka	1.58
56.	DPDO, Chennai	7257	1.58	Tamilnadu	4.46
57.	DPDO, Vellore	13245	2.88	Tamilnadu	4.46
58.	DPDO, Ernakulam	8295	1.80	Kerala	12.29
59.	DPDO, Kollam	10494	2.28
60.	DPDO, Kottayam	12073	2.62
61.	DPDO, Pathanamthitta	9217	2.00
62.	DPDO, Trichur	5625	1.22
63.	DPDO, Trivandrum	10910	2.37
Total		460336	100		100