Rank Pay: CDA (O) Pune News Flash

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Supreme Court Verdict regarding Rank Pay and related matters and Undertaking (25/09/2012)
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All reitred/ released Army officers who were in service in the rank of Capt to Brig as on 01/01/86, are requested to furnish their details in the appended format at the earliest to PCDA(O), Pune so that arrears on account of pay revision with effect from 01/01/86 in view of the order of Hon'ble Supreme Court may be credited in the bank account". (28/09/2012)
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Pune Ex-servicemen urge Centre to Enhance Pensions

Ex-servicemen urge Centre to address pension issues
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 05.57AM IST
PUNE: The Pune chapter of the All India Federation of Military Veterans' Organisation on Wednesday alleged that the Union government was not serious about implementing one rank one pension scheme for all three defence wings.
The other pending issues such as help to widows and enhancement of pension were also not addressed, the organization said.
Addressing a news conference, Ravindra Pathak, coordinator of Pune chapter, said, "Issues relating to ex-servicemen, pension and related problems were being ignored by the Union government. Besides one rank one pension, enhancement of family pension, dual family pension and family pension to mentally or physically-challenged children of servicemen are not properly addressed."
Recently, the Union government had claimed that one rank one pension scheme would benefit families of ex-servicemen. Pathak claimed it was nothing but correction of anomalies that crept in as a result of wrong implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.
Enhanced family pension is only a correction of the Union government's error. In many situations, the family does not benefit from improvements in the scheme and for many it is also not possible to pursue the matter, he added.
All ex-servicemen are going to approach the Centre to pursue their demands and improvements in various policies that are currently affecting the ex-servicemen, said Pathak.
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CSD goods finds its way to civil shops

Army stores goods surface in open market
TNN Aug 30, 2001, 01.20am IST
Secunderabad: The shop owners in Secunderabad cantonment -- particularly in Trimulgherry and Lal Bazar -- are selling commodities 'procured' from the canteen stores department (csd) managed by different units of army.
The csd services are for serving defence personnel, retired army personnel and their dependents and civilians who work in defence establishments. some of the shop owners in the cantonment purchase the essential commodities like soap, toothpastes, shampoos and oils on the cards of the defence personnel and sell them at the market rates.
The csd seal can be seen on the commodities sold by the shop owners at Trimulgherry and Lal Bazar. goods like fans, suitcases, pressure cookers, mixer grinders and stoves are purchased from the csds at subsidised rates and sold in the open market in Secunderabad cantonment. the central csd depot of the army at Trimulgherry supplies the commodities to more than 50 csds in the cantonment. As the difference between the market rate of a commodity and the subsidised rate at the csd is nearly 25 per cent, shop owners who sell them get a good profit. the supplies department of the army conducted raids on several csds in July. in the raids, the canteen cards with names included unauthorisedly were recovered.
The army personnel also caught middlemen delivering the goods from csds to shop owners and left them with a warning. Army stores goods surface in open market

Boots Belts Berets- Book review

Boots Belts Berets; Tanushree Podder; IndiaInk; Rs.295.
BOOTS BELTS BERETS. Book titled ‘ Boots Belts Berets ‘is all about the NDA which would interest all officers. It is authored by a Tanushree Podder, the wife of a cadet of the 70’s. It describes the life and times of cadets at the NDA in such graphic details (even if somewhat exaggerated in parts !) that it is hard to imagine that she and not her husband actually scripted it. Full marks to her because she has not only written in the most glorious prose but made it so funny and nostalgic for any NDA cadet of the past while giving a truthful glimpse of it to those of the present and future. Its style is good and the anecdotes familiar to us all, which makes interesting reading!
Best wishes.
Madhav
1st Course JSW

We have to thank Chetan Bhagat for popularising a genre of writing that most Indian book editors would dump into without skipping a beat. After chick lit and college sagas comes Tanushree Podder’s Boots Belts Berets delves in to the lives of the freshers at India’s premier defence academy, NDA.
The book starts off with a batch of freshers undergoing training at the NDA. Most are greenhorns but soon fall into line when they realise that there’s hell to pay if they don’t. There are unforgiving seniors whose only joy in life is to bug the freshers, bark orders and make their lives even more miserable. The teachers are as varied and while most spell doom for the poor freshers, the man behind the breakfast counter is the most loved. Even those with fastidious tastes develop a respect for food of any kind.
A motley crowd of freshers is thrown together here, most sticking with each other due to the proximity of their rooms. But that’s another thing about hostels — they teach you to be more tolerant and to live with most people. While there are pranks galore there is also an element of seriousness. But mostly it confirms that life at the academy can be a riot if taken in the right spirit. The NDA is not a place for the faint-hearted. Read it if you’re planning on joining the forces and otherwise too. It helps pass a few hours...
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