{"id":33298,"date":"2020-11-09T04:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=33298"},"modified":"2020-11-09T04:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T04:55:45","slug":"five-years-of-one-rank-one-pension-scheme-a-momentous-occasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/five-years-of-one-rank-one-pension-scheme-a-momentous-occasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years of &#8216;One Rank One Pension&#8217; scheme a momentous occasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One Rank One Pension scheme for armed forces veterans was a historic step to ensure the well-being of our soldiers, as he greeted them on the fifth anniversary of his government&#8217;s decision to implement OROP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the OROP scheme, uniform pension is paid to defence personnel who retire in the same rank with the same length of service, irrespective of their date of retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 7, 2015, the government issued an order notifying the OROP scheme and had stated that it would be effective from July 1, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OROP was implemented to bridge the gap between the pensions of current and past ex-servicemen at periodic intervals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before OROP, ex-servicemen used to get pensions as per the Pay Commission&#8217;s recommendations of the time when they had retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The armed forces personnel who retired by June 30, 2014, are covered under the OROP scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centre has disbursed over Rs 42,700 crore to 20.6 lakh retired Defence personnel under the OROP scheme since its inception, the Defence Ministry had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Rank One Pension scheme for armed forces veterans was a historic step to ensure the well-being of our soldiers, as he greeted them on the fifth anniversary of his government&#8217;s decision to implement OROP. 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