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This is how you will pay OROP arrears: SC gives Centre timeline
Updated On: 21 March, 2023 07:22 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
The bench was hearing the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement’s plea over payment of OROP dues. The SC, on March 13, rapped the government for deciding “unilaterally” to pay OROP dues in four instalments.
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The Supreme Court on Monday said the Centre is duty-bound to comply with its 2022 order on the payment of One Rank One Pension arrears to ex-service personnel, and asked it to pay dues for 2019-2022 worth Rs 28,000 crore to them by February 28 next year.
A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and comprising justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala provided a time schedule to the Ministry of Defence to pay the arrears to different groups of pensioners.
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