Context:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi commemorated a decade of the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme.
One Rank One Pension (OROP) Scheme:
- A scheme which ensures that uniform pensions are paid to personnel retiring in the same rank with identical service lengths, regardless of when they retired.
- Implementation year – The government approved OROP in 2015, with benefits retroactively effective from July 1, 2014.
- Nodal agency – Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence.
- Pensions are re-fixed based on the average of the minimum and maximum pensions of 2013 retirees of the same rank and service length.
- Arrears are paid in 4 half-yearly instalments, except for family pensioners and Gallantry awardees, who receive it in one instalment.
- Future revisions – Pensions will be re-fixed every 5 years.
- Payment – Integrated within the standard pension, not a separate component.
- Exclusions – Personnel discharged voluntarily under specific military rules post-OROP implementation are not eligible.
Source: PIB
Previous Year Question
Regarding ‘Atal Pension Yojana’, which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. It is a minimum guaranteed pension scheme mainly targeted at unorganized sector workers
2. Only one member of a family can join the scheme.
3. Same amount of pension is guaranteed for the spouse for life after subscriber’s death.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
[UPSC Civil services Exam – 2016 Prelims]
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (c)
Explanation:
Statement 2 is not correct. The scheme is open to all adults of a family.
