LIE: For 40 years, our soldiers had been asking for OROP, this chowkidar came and fulfilled their demands
UPA announced in the interim budget of 2014 the then government’s decision to accept OROP. It came despite three pension hikes to ex-servicemen during 10-year tenure. After FM’s announcement, the Defence Minister chaired a meeting on February 26, 2014, which took the decision to implement OROP for all ranks of defence forces from April 1, […]
