NEW DELHI : The military personnel henceforth taking voluntary retirement as a request shall not be entitled to the One Rank One Pension (OROP) applicable to those retiring up to July 1, 2014, the date fixed for its implementation.

While the pension of the defence personnel will be re-fixed henceforth every five years, the Justice L Narasimha Reddy-headed judicial committee will help remove anomalies that may arise in implementation of the OROP order issued on November 7 last. Retired Patna High Court Chief Justice Reddy was appointed on December 14 to give the report within six months on the references made by the Government in lieu of objections by the ex-servicemen’s organisations.

The government clarifications came on Wednesday when the Union Cabinet gave its ex-post facto approval of implementation of the OROP.

It said: “Pension will be re-fixed for pre 1.7.2014 pensioners retiring in the same rank and with the same length of service as the average of minimum and maximum pension drawn by the retiree in the year 2013. Those drawing pensions above the average will be protected. The benefit would also be extended to the family pensioners, including disabled pensioners and war widows.” The financial implication of the implementation of OROP is Rs 10,925.11 crore for payments of arrears while the annual burden would be Rs 7488.7 crore.

The arrears are to be paid in four half-yearly installments, the first such installment of total Rs 2861 crore was disbursed to 15.91 pensioners till March end, the officials said.