People like me are with every sentiment of ESM as well as those, who have yet to join this class after retirement. The struggle will go on. For many of us not much time is left.
All of us do not have energy or know how to go to the courts. Now that AFT Act 2007 has been passed, there should be a cell of IESL or whatever, to project our simple language cases to the AFT.
MINE IS: why as a retired Major General, (next higher rank to Brigadier) I have been getting lesser pension than a Brigadier, for the last 18 years? Applications are filed by the same Babus whom we blame for the pay commission and its anti- armed forces stance.
With regards,
Maj Gen Satish Chandra (Retd)
Question: Will the newly constituted Armed Forces Tribunal reverse the smart moves of Bureaucrats who have who have dumped the Defences Forces to an irretrievable morass?
Fifth Central Pay Commission Goof ups:
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence had recommended that a member of the Pay Commission be nominated from the defence forces.
There were major anomalies in its recommendations, one of them being that it gave a Brigadier more pension than a Major General. It also removed the running pay band given by the previous Pay Commission to compensate for the limited promotions in the armed forces. (The rank pay promised was screwed up but deviously merged with pay and corresponding amount deducted from pay. The bureaucrats feathered a double cap to their mathematical genius.)
For the purpose of pension, the defence personnel were equated with civilian employees but the condition of 33 years of service to earn full pension stayed, placing the armed forces at a great disadvantage. Over 90 per cent of the defence personnel retire early and therefore do not fulfil the criteria of 33 years of service to gain full pension. As a result, a former Sepoy gets less than half the pension of a retired peon.
Not only did the Fifth Pay Commission ignore the hardships of a career in the armed forces, it did not compensate them adequately for truncated careers, extremely limited promotions, long separations from families and risk to life and limb. In most democracies, these are termed as the X factor and adequately compensated.
Panel seeks defence nominee on pay commission
Silly observations, blunders and goof-ups by the 6th CPC
People like me are with every sentiment of ESM as well as those, who have yet to join this class after retirement. The struggle will go on. For many of us not much time is left.
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