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Police, ex-servicemen demanding OROP scuffle at Jantar Mantar

Police, ex-servicemen demanding OROP scuffle at Jantar Mantar

| | 14 Aug 2015, 11:13 am
New Delhi, Aug 14 (IBNS) Police on Friday had to scuffle with the ex-servicemen demonstrating for months for One Rank One Pension in the national capital's protest hub Jantar Mantar as they tried to clear the area and sanitize it ahead of the Independence Day celebrations on Aug 15.

Authorities tried to clear the area for security reasons ahead of the I-Day celebrations even as the ex-servicemen refused to move out. 
 
The protesters, who had been living there for past many days in two tents on a relay hunger strike, said they would not move out till their demands were met.  
 
Earlier, reports said Prime Minister Narendra Modi may announce implementation of the long pending One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme on August 15 when India celebrates its 68th Independence Day.

If implemented, the scheme will benefit about three million-strong ex-servicemen and war widows in the country.

Ex-servicemen have been agitating with the demand for long.

One Rank One Pension scheme  seeks to ensure that a uniform pension is paid to defence personnel who retire at the same rank with the same length of service, irrespective of their date of retirement.

During a Lok Sabha election rally in early 2014 Modi had said, "If Atal Bihari Vajpayee had come to power in 2004 then the One Rank One Pension problem wouldn't have come up. He would have given retired defence officials and serving personnel the means to live with dignity."

Again while visiting Army jawans in Siachen on October 23, 2014, Modi had said, "The promise of OROP has been fulfilled. We want all our defence personnel to live with dignity."

But his promise remains unfulfilled so far.
 

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