Monday, February 8, 2016

FOR READY REFERENCE RECKONER ::OROP TABLES : FOR ALL CATEGORIES OF ARMED FORCES OFFICERS/JCOs/ORs/DSC PERSONNEL AND NCsE

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CURTSEYEX-SERVICEMEN WELFARE
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Monday, February 8, 2016

OROP TABLES : FOR ALL CATEGORIES OF ARMED FORCES OFFICERS/JCOs/ORs/DSC PERSONNEL AND NCsE

SL.No
CATEGORY
Table No


RETIRING/SERVICE PENSION/ELEMENT


1
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
1
2
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
2
3
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
3
4
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
4
5
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
5
6
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
6
7
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
7
8
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
8
9
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
9

ENHANCED RATE OF ORDINARY FAMILY PENSION


10
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
10
11
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
11
12
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
12
13
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
13
14
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
14
15
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
15
16
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
16
17
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
17
18
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
18

NORMAL RATE OF ORDINARY FAMILY PENSION


19
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
19
20
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
20
21
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
21
22
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
22
23
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
23
24
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
24
25
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
25
26
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
26
27
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
27

SPECIAL FAMILY PENSION


28
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
28
29
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
29
30
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
30
31
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
31
32
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
32
33
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
33
34
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
34
35
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
35
36
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
36

SPECIAL DEPENDENT FAMILY PENSION/2ND LIFE AWARD OF SPECIAL FAMILY PENSION


37
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
37
38
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
38
39
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
39
40
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
40
41
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
41
42
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
42
43
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
43
44
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
44
45
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
45

LIBERALISED FAMILY PENSION


46
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
46
47
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
47
48
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
48
49
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
49
50
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
50
51
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
51
52
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
52
53
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
53
54
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
54

LIBERALISED DEPENDENT PENSION/2ND LIFE AWARD OF LIBERALISED FAMILY PENSION


55
Regular Commissioned Officers (Rates for both Parents)
55
56
Regular Commissioned Officers (Rates for Single Parents)
56
57
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC (Rates for both Parents)
57
58
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC (Rates for Single parents)
58
59
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army (Rates for both Parents)
59
60
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army (Rates for single parents)
60
61
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services (Rates for both Parents)
61
62
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services (Rates for Single Parents)
62
63
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC) (Rates for both Parents)
63
64
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC) (Rates for single Parents)
64
65
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors (Rates for both Parents)
65
66
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors (Rates for single Parents)
66
67
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
67
68
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
68
69
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
69

DISABILITY ELEMENT


70
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
70
71
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
71
72
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
72
73
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
73
74
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
74
75
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
75
76
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
76
77
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
77
78
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
78

WAR INJURY ELEMENT (DISCHARAGE)


79
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
79
80
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
80
81
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
81
82
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
82
83
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
83
84
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
84
85
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
85
86
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
86
87
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
87

WAR INJURY ELEMENT (INVALIDED OUT)


88
Regular Commissioned Officers (Excluding Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC/MNS/TA/EC/SSC)
88
89
Commissioned Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC
89
90
Commissioned Officers of Territorial Army
90
91
Commissioned Officers of Military Nursing Services
91
92
EC/SSC Officers (Other than AMC/ADC/RVC)
92
93
EC/SSC Officers of AMC/ADC/RVC doctors
93
94
JCOs/ORs including Honorary commissioned officers
94
95
JCOs/ORs of DSC in receipt of 2nd Pension
95
96
JCOs/ORs of Territorial Army
96

PRE 01-06-1953 DISCHARGED PERSONNEL
ARMY PERSONNEL


97
Ordinary Pension
97
98
Mustering Out Pension
98
99
Ordinary Pension to viceroy commissioned Officers
99

AIR FORCE


100
Ordinary Pension
100

STATE FORCE PERSONNEL


101
Erstwhile State Forces Personnel
101

(SOURCE-www.goed.in Govt Employees News)

ON ISLAMIC BROTHERHOOD:: How not to deal with the ideology of hate

SOURCE:http://www.dailypioneer.com//columnists/coffee-break/how-not-to-deal-with-the-ideology-of-hate.html

         HOW  NOT TO DEAL WITH THE                    IDEOLOGY  OF HATE

                                       BY 

                                       | Kanchan Gupta |

                                           Coffee Break


Sunday, 07 February 2016



Theological pamphleteering, no doubt well meaning and sincere, is of no consequence to the peddlers of violence and death. The latter's taunting tone is already discernible over the babble vacuous politically correct discourse


At last week’s Counter-Terrorism Conference, organised by India Foundation and themed around the rising tide of global jihad, speaker after speaker waxed eloquent on well-known basics without addressing the core issue: The ideology of hate and how to deal with it. Theological pamphleteering, no doubt well meaning and sincere, is of no consequence to the peddlers of hate, death and destruction. I doubt if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed caliph of the Islamic State, and Abubakar Shekau, who heads Boko Haram, are remotely impressed by counter-scholarship. That would be equally true of the mullahs of Taliban and the foot soldiers of jihad.


To ignore the ideology that drives Islamism and its resultant violence would be to ignore the real reason behind the continuing surge in transnational terrorism. The barbarians may not be at our gate as yet, but the unstoppable march of  zealots, whom George W Bush described as ‘Islamofascists’, as the civilised world retreats, conceding ground with each passing day, should not go unnoticed. To turn a blind eye, to be indifferent, or worse, to be politically correct and tolerate the intolerable would be to our peril. For let there be no mistake, the taunting tone of those who believe in the inevitability of a homogenous ummah replacing the diverse world we know is already discernible over the babble of ill-informed and vacuous politically correct discourse


Soon after the ghastly London bombings when Islamists blew themselves up with deadly effect, Ed Husain’s book The Islamist was published, recording his disillusionment with radicals who use faith as a cover for their murderous deeds. A particular passage in that book remains indelibly printed on my mind: “Teacher, I want to go London next month. I want bomb, big bomb in London, again. I want make jihad!” “What?” I exclaimed. Another student raised both hands and shouted: “Me too! Me too!” Other students applauded those who had just articulated what many of them were thinking


That’s how Ed Husain records his experience in the Saudi Arabian school where he had taken up a teaching assignment after embracing radical Islam. It was the day after the 7/7 suicide bombings in London that killed 52 commuters. Ed Husain, his faith in radical Islam by then dwindling rapidly after experiencing life in Saudi Arabia, was hoping to hear his students denounce the senseless killings. Instead, he heard a ringing endorsement of jihad and senseless slaughter in the name of Islam. Ed Husain returned to London and penned his revealing account in The Islamist Why I Joined


Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left. Debunking the Left-liberal intelligentsia’s explanation that deprivation, frustration and alienation among immigrant Muslims in Britain are responsible for the surge in jihadi fervour, Ed Husain wrote: “Many Muslims enjoyed a better lifestyle in non-Muslim Britain than they did in Muslim Saudi Arabia... All my talk of ummah seemed so juvenile now. It was only in the comfort of Britain that Islamists could come out with such radical utopian slogans as one Government, one ever expanding country, for one Muslim nation. The racist reality of the Arab psyche would never accept black and white people as equal... I was appalled by the imposition of Wahhabism in the public realm, something I had implicitly sought as an Islamist


So, what does an Islamist seek? The reams of rubbish churned out by bogus activists and windbag columnists desperately seeking to rationalise crimes committed in the name of Islam, ranging from the ethnic cleansing of the Kashmir valley to the Mumbai massacre, from the attack on Parliament House in New Delhi to the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, from the horrific assault on human dignity by the Taliban in Afghanistan to the nauseating anti-Semitism of the regime in Iran, and from the unspeakable crimes of the Islamic State in the Levant to the limitless horrors of Boko Haram in Nigeria, cannot explain either the core idea of Islamism or what motivates Islamists. For that, we have to go through the teachings of Hasan al-Banna, the original Islamist and progenitor of the Muslim Brotherhood which now wields power in Egypt, the land of the birth of radical Islam.
Hasan al-Banna’s articulation of Islamism in the 1930s, distilled from complex theological interpretations of Islam, was at once simple enough for even illiterate Muslims to understand and sinister in its implications when seen in the context of what we are witnessing today:
“The Quran is our Constitution. Jihad is our way. Martyrdom is our desire.”
Imagined grievances and manufactured rage came decades later, as faux justification for adopting this three-sentence injunction that erases the line separating the spiritual from the temporal and giving Islam a political dimension in the modern world, thus expanding the theatre of conflict beyond the sterile sands of Arabia.



Hasan al-Banna died a nasty death when he was murdered in 1949, apparently in retaliation of the assassination of Egypt’s then Prime Minister, Mahmud Fahmi Naqrashi, but the seed he had planted in his lifetime was to grow into a giant poison tree, watered and nourished by Sayyid Qutub (whose tract, Ma’alim fi-l-Tariq, was interpreted as treasonous, fetching him the death sentence in 1966) which over the years has spread its roots and branches, first across Arabia and then to Muslim majority countries; so potent is that tree’s life force, its seeds, carried by the blistering desert wind that blows from the Mashreq, have now begun to sprout in countries as disparate as Denmark and India, Turkey and Malaysia, changing demographic profiles and unsettling societies


The world chose to ignore subsequent events and, like those who clamour for a gentler, accommodative approach to Islamism today by pushing for compromise over conflict, ‘enlightened’ scholars and public affairs commentators rationalised Anwar Sadat’s assassination by Islamists on October 6, 1981. Even Egypt erred in setting free scores of conspirators, including a certain Ayman Al-Zawahiri.


Similarly, the ‘Islamic Revolution’ in Iran with its blood-soaked consequences was hailed as a “people’s victory” over Shah Reza Pehalvi’s dictatorial regime. For Europe, long dubbed Eurabia, it was business as usual Iran’s oil swamped out rational analyses. If any country had the foresight to sense the danger signals, it was, and ironically so, Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak who remained wary of Iran, not least because of its export of rabid Islamism. Tragically, the new rulers in Cairo are not riled by Tehran naming a street after Sadat’s assassin, Khalid Islambouli.


It was in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that Islamism acquired a new dimension and a vicious edge when it was coupled with Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia’s severely austere version of Sunni Islam. Arab nationalism, which was unencumbered by Islamism till then, became an expression of faith in radical Islamism. In what passes for Palestinian territories, the intifada was born and reborn, and while the popularity of Yasser Arafat’s largely secular PLO began to decline, Hamas, led by its paraplegic spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, began its murderous march which has culminated with Gaza Strip being declared ‘Hamastan’. Yassin was killed by the Israelis for inspiring young Palestinians to blow themselves up in buses, restaurants and markets, but that has neither shaken Hamas nor weakened its faith in what Hasan al-Banna preached. In Lebanon, the Hezbollah is now facing competition from Fatah-al Islam in Palestinian refugee camps and Syrian dissidents who equally believe ‘Islam is the solution’. In Britain, Hizb ut-Tahrir is seducing young Muslims like Ed Husain with its acid message of intolerance and bigotry. In India, we have the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Tablighi Jamaat. The Deobandis are not to be scoffed at.


To neutralise the three-sentence injunction of Hasan al-Banna, we need more than a ‘War on Terror’. We need to launch an assault on the idea that motivates radical Islamists. There is no scope for accommodation, nor is there any reason to capitulate or strike a compromise. We still have time to mount a counter-assault. But to do that, and do so successfully, we must first acknowledge and debate the Idea of Islamism.

























 

Sunday, February 7, 2016

MARITIME INDIAN OCEAN : MILITARY COPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES HAS ITS LIMITS

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 MILITARY COPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES HAS ITS LIMITS
                                  BY
                            Premvir Das



There has been much talk in recent years of the flourishing between India and the USA and future possibilities. Examples of the undoubtedly professional Malabar series of exercises at sea, as also of similar interfaces among the two armies and air forces, are quoted in support of the growing engagement, as well as the purchase of military hardware from now crossing $9 billion. That this has come about through a larger strategic congruence between the two countries is also a given. Add to this the increasingly close interaction in exchange of intelligence relating to terrorism, which is not unrelated to security, and the picture gets bigger. Two visits of the American president to New Delhi in as many years and his bilateral exchanges with our own prime minister in Washington add to this synergy. Positive interactions at Track II levels have further facilitated this process, and the sky would appear to be the limit. Wisdom, however, lies in recognising the ground realities.

Only two decades ago, our military interface with the
was in the pits, literally. Even after the tensions of the Cold War began to recede and India started to see the world and its interests in it through a different prism, suspicions on both sides remained high. In 1995, the two countries signed what was termed a Minute on Defence Cooperation. Then came India's nuclear tests in 1998 and things went back to zero as the US imposed stiff sanctions on this country. From then until now, steady progress has been made in the relationship and defence has been an important driver. Acquisition of sophisticated aircraft for the navy and the air force that provide strategic reach has led the purchase segment even as exercises at sea have given a visible public face to the military engagement. However, the two, while advantageous to both sides in different ways, must, sooner or later, plateau and that may well be happening even now for reasons that are not difficult to understand.

Defence cooperation between two countries essentially requires a strategic base. For the Americans, such relationships have primarily flowed from politico-military alliances. The
(Nato) across Europe and two other earlier groupings, Cento covering South West Asia and Seato in South East Asia - both now defunct but in most cases replaced by bilateral arrangements - are some examples. Add to this close military interfaces and bases around the world, and the mosaic is complete. In short, America's defence engagement has always been focused on and with its 'allies'. Through this network, which includes transfer of military hardware and technologies, the US seeks to maintain the status quo, in which it remains the unchallenged leader. To quote President Obama in his recent State of the Union address, "America is the strongest power in the world, period."

India's world is somewhat different. From being a relatively docile nation hesitant to play any leading role in global affairs other than by professing its non-alignment, it is now moving to a stage where it seeks to be more proactive in its interfaces and in its region, the Indo-Pacific in particular. This means engagement, including in defence relationships with several participants, without becoming the alliance partner of any. So, while the US is a country with which India shares many common interests, it is not the only one. Similar synergies exist with other players, of which Russia (with which India has had a strong military relationship for decades), Japan, France, UK, Australia, Israel, Vietnam, Iran, South Africa and littorals of the Indian Ocean region and South East Asia are only a few. It has such cooperation arrangements with several countries and it is not surprising that as many as 54 are represented at the International Fleet Review being hosted by the
in Visakhapatnam. One or more of these nations might also be America's allies but their aspirations are not the same as ours, or the desire to seek changes in the world order consistent with our own. India's need to seek a new paradigm in international equations runs on a different plane, if not counter to the American theme.

So, while healthy and mutually beneficial interaction with the US must be a key objective of our foreign policy, developing advantageous relations with the others is important. In such bilateral interfaces, relations with
have also to be given due weight. As the major Asian power with which India shares a long and disputed land boundary, it cannot be left out of our calculus. In short, there are some fundamental differences in the way the US and India see the emerging strategic environment and their own roles in it. The fact that India is already the fourth largest global economy in PPP terms, and will become the third in less than a decade, gives another dimension to the emerging scenario. To this dissonance should be added the continuing soft handling of our neighbour by the US despite that country's known support of India-focused acts of terror.

As far as the purely military relationship is concerned, levels of suspicion have greatly diminished in the last 15 years but they have not disappeared; one reason for this is the mollycoddling of Pakistan's military establishment by the Pentagon, which is unlikely to be gone anytime soon. To address and overcome the negatives should be work in progress for both sides. As for procurement, some facts need recognition. Several major warships that the Indian Navy operates are of Russian origin and almost every single frontline vessel that is built in India is equipped with some Russian weapons and/or sensors. The SU-30s and MiG-29s are at the forefront of our air strike power, as are armoured vehicles like the T-90 tanks on land. To expect that things will change dramatically in the foreseeable future is unrealistic. The impending induction of Rafale multi-role aircraft from France costing about $10 billion, more than all US purchases so far, will further constrain acquisition of American military hardware.

In recent years, many important American functionaries - among them the present secretary of defence - have actively pursued closer ties between the militaries of the two countries, independent of the fact that India is not and is unlikely to ever be a US ally. This is a positive approach which we must reciprocate. In brief, both countries have to realise that there are limits to our defence cooperation and the relationship has to be developed within the parameters that these will, inevitably, set. Any expectation that this engagement will reach the sky is rather simplistic.