The Supreme Court for its “hyperbole” on the One Rank One Pension (OROP) policy for the armed forces, the Centre has told the Supreme Court that both “same rank” and “same length of service” are necessary conditions for availing of OROP benefits. OROP is short for "One Rank One Pension", which aims pension uniformity for armed forces personnel retiring at the same rank with the same length of service.Th
e Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment in a petition claiming that the government's implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) for the Armed Forces has been faulty.
A Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud completed the hearings on the petition filed by Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement, represented by senior advocate HUZEFA Ahmadi that OROP has led to creation of separate entities and classes among equal rankers