The Supreme Court affirmed the government’s One Rank, One Pension (OROP) ruling on Wednesday, stating that the OROP policy had no constitutional flaws.
The Supreme Court upheld the government’s One Rank, One Pension (OROP) ruling on Wednesday, saying it found no constitutional flaw in the OROP principle. The SC has confirmed how the central government has implemented the OROP system in the Defense Forces as per its notification of November 7, 2015.
The OROP is a policy decision of the government and it is not for the court to deal with of the decision on political issues, added the CS. In addition, the SC ordered that the pending reassessment exercise of the OROP be carried out from July 1, 2019 and that the arrears be paid within 3 months.
Reserving its verdict on February 23, a jury headed by Judge DY Chandrachud asked the center whether the ordeals of ex-soldiers would be avoided to some extent if the periodic review of OROP was reduced from five years to a shorter period. .
The plea was filed by the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM) through Barrister Balaji Srinivasan against the center’s OROP formula. The Supreme Court has said that whatever it decides will be based on concepts, not numbers. He said: “If you revise after five years, the arrears of five years are not taken into account.
The difficulties of former students can be avoided to some extent if the five-year period is shortened to a shorter period. factors, the lowest in parentheses being taken into account, and the golden mean is reported. “When we were in politics, we didn’t want to leave anyone behind after independence.
The balance was done. We’ve covered the entire last 60 to 70 years. Well, to change it by court order, the implications are unknown to us. Everything related to finance and the economy must be considered with caution. The five-year period is reasonable and also has financial implications,” he said.
