Government likely to declare implementation of OROP today
Ex-Servicemen have been on an indefinite hunger strike in the national capital, demanding implementation of the long-awaited proposal which ensures pension parity.
Reports said the government has accepted 98 per cent of the demands made by ex-servicemen though it has decided to stick to its offer of pay revision every five years, and not one or two years as demanded by the agitating veterans.
The hunger strike undertaken by war veterans in Delhi's Jantar Mantar has entered its 83rd day.
OROP was a key promise made by Prime Minister Narenrda Modi when he was campaigning for last year's national election. It will give the same pension to ex-servicemen who retired many years ago as that which soldiers of the same rank retiring now draw.
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