CDA (O) destroys records of Maj Gen's: Revised Pension subject to production of documents by affected officers

I, along with some other officers have recd a telegram from the CDA (O) saying that- The records of the officer have been destroyed being time expired, therefore, they have requested for copies of –

Last pay certificate.

Initial PPO.

Any other document containing last pay drawn.

CDA(O) A/C No.
It is therefore, suggested that all officers send the above info to CDA(O), even if they have not received the above telegram.
With best wishes.
Satish
Maj Gen SC Suri (Retd)

Date: Saturday, 29 August, 2009, 9:06 PM
I spent a greater part of the day answering phone calls from Maj Gen Suri and a kindly officer in the pay cell. The issue was the pension of pre-1996 retired Maj Gens. The Supreme Court judgements are well known. The confusion has been confounded by the government by issue of a letter which asks the CDA to work out their pension. The letter has been so brilliantly worded that it lends itself to multiple interpretations. I was trying to offer my two-penny worth to resolve the issue. Our adorable Ustad, Asadulla Khan Ghalib said,
"Dard minnat kash-e-davaa na hua
MaiN na achha hua bura na hua!"
(The capital N is silent, but adds a nasal sound)
"The pain did not yield to the pleading of medicine
I am neither any better nor worse."

Suddenly, it occurred to me that if these eighty year old generals have put up such a gallant fight, roughing it out in the courts on hot afternoons for a mere Rs 900 per month, what faces the government this time will be blood bath of a kind never known to mankind. In 1857 we had a sepoy mutiny. This one will need a different term, I suggest we call it "The veterans battle for equity" We know very well that "inequity is iniquitous."
Regards,
Maj Gen Surjit Singh (Retd)