Ex-serviceman commits suicide over delay on OROP scheme implementation

#OROP Issue- Ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Garehwal suicide Note

last note says he did it for brave soldiers pic.twitter.com/djRpqDxuLC

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इसका मतलब प्रधानमंत्री जी झूठ बोल रहे हैं की OROP लागू कर दिया। OROP लागू हो जाता तो राम किशन जी को आत्महत्या क्यों करनी पड़ती? https://t.co/d9MPJjkf5A

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 2, 2016

This comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Rs 5,500 crore has been paid for implementing the OROP scheme, an issue that has been hanging since the last 40 years.

The Indian Ex-servicemen Movement (IESM) and others have challenged the government's policy of periodic review of pension once in five years, saying such an approach was a dilution of the 26 February, 2014, announcement by which the revision in pension was to automatically pass on to the past pensioners on an annual basis.

They contended that five-yearly periodic review did not meet the demand of the ex-servicemen seeking OROP for the service personnel who had retired with same length of service in the same rank.

IESM in its petition has referred to the 19 December, 2011, report of Rajya Sabha's Petition Committee then headed by Bhagat Singh Koshyari which rejected all reservation advanced by the government while "strongly recommending" OROP.

In its 142nd report, the Koshyari Committee had said, "the Committee strongly recommends that Government should implement OROP in the defence forces across the board at the earliest".

--With Agency inputs