Mandi, February 8

Ex-honorary commissioned officers are seeking early implementation of Justice Reddy recommendation on ‘One Rank One Pension’ (OROP) scheme.Captain Jagdish Verma (retd), president of the Ex-Servicemen Organisation, Honorary Commissioned Officers’ Welfare Association of Himachal Pradesh, said their association had sent a letter to the Ministry of Defence demanding intimation on the latest status of the case and getting the process of acceptance of the recommendation of Justice Reddy so that the already delayed scheme of OROP for ex-servicemen is implemented in right perspective.He claimed that there were certain irregularities in the OROP scheme which was implemented by the Central government in 2015 for ex-servicemen.“The government had constituted one-man judicial commission under the chairmanship of Justice L Narsimha Reddy, a retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court, to look into the irregularities and submit a detail recommendation to the government for early rectification,” he added.He alleged that even after the interval of five months neither the government had made the recommendation of Justice Reddy public nor any acceptance of the recommendation. — TNS