New Delhi, March 1

The United Front of Ex-Servicemen has countered the claims made by PM Narendra Modi during electioneering in UP of having implemented the one rank, one pension (OROP) formula for retired soldiers.Modi’s claims were “far from truth. What has been implemented is not OROP, but a one-time increase in pension”, said Major General Satbir Singh (Retd), chairman of the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM).The report submitted by the one-man judicial committee on OROP in October 2016 has not yet been made public.  He said the anomalies pointed out by the front had not been referred to the Justice Reddy Committee, constituted to deliberate on the anomalies arising from the government notification of November 2015. He said the Defence Minister had been informed that anomalies in the government notification, if not corrected, would kill the very soul of OROP. — TNS