OROP: Govt may extend tenure of judicial panel
The Centre informed Delhi High Court Thursday that the tenure of the one-member judicial commission to look into the public hearing of One Rank One Pension scheme will be extended, as representations filed by ex-servicemen and others are yet to be submitted to the Commission.
The central governmentโs standing counsel Anurag Ahluwalia, appearing on behalf of Defence Ministry, told the court that โover 2,500 representationsโ had been received by the ministry so far. โThe representations are now being processed, and will then be submitted to the judicial commission,โ said Ahluwalia, adding that the panelโs tenure โwould have to be extendedโ.
Former Chief Justice of Patna High Court L Narsimha Reddy was appointed the judicial commissioner to look into the implementation of the OROP scheme. The commission was expected to submit its recommendations within six months and its tenure is set to expire on June 14.
Ex-serviceman S P Singh filed a PIL before the high court earlier this week, seeking orders to have an โeffective public hearingโ on the issue and claiming that the โpeople were not informedโ how to submit their representations. The court, however, noted that a particular address had been allocated to the commission, and the representations could be sent via post.
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Rank of a soldier never expires. That the rank pay pay must be given to pensioners too like on duty.