2 Jan 2009, 0210 hrs IST, TNN
CHANDIGARH: Terming the formation of a separate Pay Commission as an eyewash, defence personnel on Thursday came down heavily on the government. The proposed pay commission exclusively for the armed forces would be operational from the seventh pay commission, which is after 10 years. All the defence personnel are against the government move to make it operative after 10 years.
City-based Air Marshal Randhir Singh (retd) said, nobody knows what would happen after 10 years. This announcement of the Centre is just an eyewash.
Government should have implemented it from this time by reviewing the current recommendations, said Maj-Gen Satbir Singh (retd), who had taken up various issues of armed forces with the government. This is not the way armed forces should be treated and soldiers don’t want mercy, he rued.
Terming it a political agenda of the central government keeping in view the coming parliamentary elections, Brig KK Kahlon said, It is a political stunt of the government. Politicians have started looking at us as a vote bank.
Former JAG officer Col SK Aggarwal maintained, the government has not given us any relief. In fact, they have deferred our demand for another 10 years. He further maintained that the decision of the central government is not binding on the coming government and if they really wanted to do something for the forces, they should have reviewed the present recommendations.
Lt Col SS Sohi of Indian ex-services league said, “We are still caught in a crossfire as the outcome of this decision would come after 10 years and nobody knows what would be the condition at that time. It has to be time-bound for six months or a year so that it can be beneficial to all in true spirit.”
The defence personnel are not happy with nothing being done with regard to their demand for one rank one pension (OROP), which is creating a lot of disparity among them.
It is pertinent to mention here that the union government has agreed that in future, pay revision of the armed forces should be delinked from that of civilians. A separate board or commission would be set up for pay revision of the armed forces.
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