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7:04 PM (1 hour ago)
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A team of three Members of IESM Governing Body/ UFESM (JM), consisting of Hon Lt Kameshwar Pande, Maj Gen Satbir Singh and the undersigned, Wg Cdr CK Sharma were called by the Raksha Mantri, Sh Manohar Parikar late evening on 1st December 2015 for a meeting.
The only matter on the table, of course, was the correct and proper application of One Rank One Pension at the very earliest.
The RM was very clear and upfront about what his views were for OROP. He wanted us to give him a memorandum of what points we had for him, and he would thereafter give us appropriate response.
However, we told the RM that there was absolutely nothing that we wished to add to a document that he, as the RM, had prepared in February 2015 and sent on to the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister. We assured him that not only did we have complete and total faith in his thinking, but also, we had every intention to make sure that this vexed problem of OROP would be correctly and amicably sorted and the award given to the Veer Naris and Ex Servicemen of India by none other than Mr Narendra Modi as the PM.
Towards this, after some mutual discussion, it was decided that the Government would appoint Gen VK Singh, the present Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, as the Mediator. Gen VK Singh will meet all those protesting at Jantar Mantar to reach an amicable position from which, hopefully a solution would be reached enabling the on-going protest at Jantar Mantar to be called off.
Contact with Gen VK Singh has already been established to ensure that prompt action is now initiated on the matter and the agony of Ex Servicemen brought to a speedy end with an honourable settlement.
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