Finally the contentious One Rank One Pension(OROP) demand will see the light of the day. This is however like a dream turned sour as the saunction belies what is approved by 2 houses of parliaament.The army chief General Dilbagh Singh last year in an address to ex-servicemen at Rewari in Haryana had announced that OROP is approved and if all goes well the same will be put into effect before 30 April 2015. As per reports about 17000 ex-servicemen attended the rally and the father of general Dilbagh Singh a retired ex serviceman himself attended the rally. Unfortunately the general as usual was talking like a wind bag and as yet the sanction is not accorded.
This demand has been simmering for 4 decades, but it is yet not borne fruit. Though the light at the end of the tunnelm is visible.credit for this must go to General Satbir Singh Chairman of the ESI, who relentlessly represented the case of the soldiers to the BJP government. We all know that after coming to power the two power centres in the BJP, the Finance Minister Jaitley and the Raksha Mantri Pannikar spoke in discordant voices against the OROP.
OROP is still not approved and I am afraid this will be a sour note for the soldiers fighting with their lives to save India. Its a shame and Modi and his FM Jaitley need to hang their head in shame, but then shameless people do not feel any shame.
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