New Delhi: The centre has blamed discrepancies in the “One Rank One Pension” policy on former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who it said made a statement in parliament in 2014 on OROP without any recommendation by the then Union cabinet.
The centre also sought to counter the contention of petitioners for “automatic” revision of OROP, saying such dynamic calculations is “unheard of” in practice.
The petitioner wants OROP to be automatically revised every year, instead of the current policy of a periodic review once in five years. The petitioners said veterans who retired in 2014 are drawing more pension than those who retired between 1965 and 2013, which defeats the purpose of OROP.
The centre has attributed the difference in pension to a process called Modified Assured Career Progression, or MACP, which provides salary hike for those who have not been promoted for decades.
By connecting OROP with MACP, the government has reduced benefits substantially and the principle of OROP has been defeated, the petitioner said.
