Appearing on behalf of the government, attorney general R Venkataramani said the Centre had paid one instalment of Orop arrears but needed ...

The government had issued a notification on January saying that it would pay the OROP arrears in four instalments.

Appearing on behalf of the petitioners, senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi questioned how the government could unilaterally alter the deadline s...

"You tell the secretary we are going to take action against him for that January 20 communication. Either withdraw it, or we are going to i...

The letter, issued to the chiefs of the three defence forces, had defined OROP as the payment of uniform pension to armed services personne...

Ex-servicemen claimed OROP originally envisaged uniform payment of pension to ex-servicemen who retired with the same rank and same years i...

Besides the 95 per cent of veterans who have received OROP, the rest are very old pensioners and their records are incomplete. In the next ...

With the extension, the implementation of OROP may take more time as the panel can submit its report by December 14, official sources said.

The government had in November last year formally notified the OROP scheme for the more than 24 lakh defence ex-servicemen and 6 lakh war w...

"There are over 1000 branches (of banks) doing the job and, if someone does not do their job properly, it may get delayed," he said.

Unsatisfied with the detailed instructions and tables for One Rank One Pension scheme issued by the government, protesting military veteran...

The government will also bring in a formal order on OROP this month which will see a clarification on the OROP rule that those taking retir...

A section of military veterans continue to protest against what they hold is a "diluted" OROP, which was notified by the government on Nove...

UPA had initially allocated only Rs 500 crore for OROP . The veterans were demanding that OROP be implemented from April 1, 2014.

As hectic back channel talks continued, Army chief Dalbir Singh Suhag met representativces of ex-servicemen at his South Block office but t...

Ex-servicemen were left disappointed once again when PM Modi did not announce implementation of one-rank, one-pension (OROP) mechanism.

OROP mechanism has a corpus of about Rs 8,300 crore for over 25 lakh ex-servicemen, who have been demanding it for long.