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The Centre has revised family pensions under OROP with effect from July 1, 2024. Check out the revised pensions of pensioners under the OROP scheme.

One Rank One Pension Scheme Revision: Good news for defence forces pensioners! The central government has revised rank-wise pensions under the One Rank One Pension scheme for retirees from Army, Navy, Air Force and other defence units, as well as for family pensioners, effective July 1, 2024.

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OROP Pension Revision: Who all are benefitted?

According to a letter issued by the Ministry of Defence, the pensions are revised for “all defence pensioners/ family pensioners who had been retired/discharged/invalided out from service/died in service or after retirement in the rank of Commissioned Officers, Honorary Commissioned Officers, JCOs/ORs and Non-Combatants (Enrolled) of Army, Navy, Air Force, Defence Security Corps, Territorial Army & Ex-State Forces and are in receipt of pension/family pension as on 01.07.2024 (except pensioners retired on or after 01.07.2014 on pre mature retirement/own request).”

Who are excluded under the OROP revision benefits?

This revision won’t be applicable to those like “UK/HKSRA/KCIO pensioners, Pakistan & Burma Army pensioners, Reservist pensioners, pensioners in receipt of Ex-gratia payments and pre mature retirement/own request pensioners retired on or after 01.07.2014 (as provided in para 4 of MoD Notification dated 07.11.2015).”

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What will be the revised pensions for retirees from defence forces?

The revised rates of pension, as per the letter, are average of minimum & maximum rate of pension for a rank, group and a qualifying service of live data of 2023 retirees. “Wherever, the rates of higher qualifying service of a rank are lower than rates of lower qualifying service in same rank or data is/are blank for higher qualifying service then the same have been protected by higher rate of lower qualifying service, due to this many rates in same column appears equal. Similarly, wherever the revised rate of pension under this order are lower in higher rank than rate in lower rank in same qualifying service then the same have been protected with higher rates of pension in lower rank in same qualifying service resulting similar rate in some qualifying service in two adjacent columns.”

In the following table, given the rates of retiring pension as per OROP revision for regular commissioned officers and women officers of the army and equivalent ranks in the navy and air force (other than officers of AMC/ADC/RVC, EC/SSC, TA and MNS).

Qualifying service	2ND LT/LT	CAPT	MAJOR	LT/LT COL COL(TS)
	1	2	3	4
0.5	20889	20889	27149	46834
1	21212	21212	27562	47558
1.5	21535	21535	27988	48282
2	21868	21868	28414	49029
2.5	22201	22201	28853	49775
3	22544	22544	29292	50545
3.5	22887	22887	29745	51314
4	23241	23241	30197	52108
4.5	23594	23594	30664	52901
5	23959	23959	31130	53719
5.5	24323	24323	31611	54537
6	24699	24699	32092	55380
6.5	25075	25075	32588	56223
7	25463	25463	33084	57092
7.5	25850	25850	33596	57961
8	26250	26250	34107	58857
8.5	26649	26649	34634	59753
9	27061	27061	35161	60677
9.5	27473	27473	35705	61601
10	27898	27898	36248	62554
10.5	28322	28322	36809	63506
11	28760	28760	37369	64488
11.5	29197	29197	37947	65470
12	29649	29649	38524	66482
12.5	30100	30100	39120	67494
13	30565	30565	39715	68538
13.5	31030	31030	40329	69581
14	31510	31510	40943	70657
14.5	31989	31989	41576	71732
15	32484	32484	42209	72841
15.5	32978	32978	42862	73950
16	33488	33488	43514	73950
16.5	33997	33997	44187	73950
17	34523	34523	44859	73950
17.5	35048	35048	45553	73950
18	35590	35590	46246	73950
18.5	36131	36131	46961	73950
19	36690	36690	47676	73950
19.5	37248	37248	48413	82250
20	37824	37824	49150	82300
20.5	38400	38400	49150	82300
21	38400	38711	54350	82300
21.5	38400	39300	54350	82300
22	38400	39300	54350	82300
22.5	38400	39300	54350	82300
23	38400	39300	54350	82300
23.5	38400	39300	54350	82775
24	38400	39300	54350	82775
24.5	38400	39754	54350	84800
25	38400	40369	54350	89200
25.5	38400	40983	54350	91625
26	39700	41617	54350	91625
26.5	40750	42250	54350	91625
27	40750	42500	54350	91625
27.5	40750	42500	54350	99350
28	40750	42500	54350	99350
28.5	41200	42500	54350	99350
29	41200	42500	54350	99350
29.5	41200	42500	54350	99350
30	41200	42500	54350	99350
30.5	42050	42500	54350	99350
31	42625	42625	54350	110850
31.5	42625	42625	54350	110850
32	42625	42625	54350	110850
32.5	46300	46300	66800	110850
33 and above	46300	46300	66800	110850

Note: 1) For revision of pension, the qualifying service mentioned in first column shall be taken as actual qualifying service rendered for which pension had been sanctioned.

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2) To cover invalid out cases, rates of pension has been indicated from 1/2 years of service up to Colonel rank and from 20 years of service for Brigadier and above ranks though such cases may not occur in reality in higher ranks.

Qualifying service	COL(TS)	COL
	5	6
0.5	54191	54191
1	55029	55029
1.5	55867	55867
2	56731	56731
2.5	57594	57594
3	58485	58485
3.5	59375	59375
4	60293	60293
4.5	61211	61211
5	62158	62158
5.5	63104	63104
6	64080	64080
6.5	65055	65055
7	66061	66061
7.5	67066	67066
8	68103	68103
8.5	69140	69140
9	70209	70209
9.5	71278	71278
10	72380	72380
10.5	73482	73482
11	74618	74618
11.5	75754	75754
12	76925	76925
12.5	78096	78096
13	79304	79304
13.5	80511	80511
14	81756	81756
14.5	83001	83001
15	84285	84285
15.5	85568	85568
16	86891	86891
16.5	88214	88214
17	89578	89578
17.5	90942	90942
18	92348	92348
18.5	93754	93754
19	95204	95204
19.5	96653	96653
20	98148	98148
20.5	99642	99642
21	101183	101183
21.5	102723	102723
22	104311	104311
22.5	105899	105899
23	107537	107537
23.5	109174	109174
24	110862	110862
24.5	112550	112550
25	112550	112550
25.5	112550	112550
26	112550	112550
26.5	112550	112550
27	112550	112550
27.5	112550	112550
28	112550	112550
28.5	112550	112550
29	112550	112550
29.5	112550	112550
30	112550	112550
30.5	112550	112600
31	112600	112600
31.5	112600	114125
32	112600	114125
32.5	114125	114125
33 & above	114125	115700

Note: 1) For revision of pension, the qualifying service mentioned in first column shall be taken as actual qualifying service rendered for which pension had been sanctioned.

2) To cover invalid out cases, rates of pension has been indicated from 1/2 years of service up to Colonel rank and from 20 years of service for Brigadier and above ranks though such cases may not occur in reality in higher ranks.

Qualifying service	BRIG	MAJ GEN	LT GEN	LT GEN (HAG+)
	7	8	9	10
20	98148	98148	98148	98148
20.5	99642	99642	99642	99642
21	101183	101183	101183	101183
21.5	102723	102723	102723	102723
22	104311	104311	104311	104311
22.5	105899	105899	105899	105899
23	107537	107537	107537	107537
23.5	109174	109174	109174	109174
24	110862	110862	110862	110862
24.5	112550	112550	112550	112550
25	112550	112550	112550	112550
25.5	112550	112550	112550	112550
26	112550	112550	112550	112550
26.5	112550	112550	112550	112550
27	112550	112550	112550	112550
27.5	112550	112550	112550	112550
28	112550	112550	112550	112550
28.5	112550	112550	112550	112550
29	112550	112550	112550	112550
29.5	112550	112550	112550	112550
30	116550	116550	116550	116550
30.5	116550	116550	116550	116550
31	116550	116550	116550	116550
31.5	116550	116550	116550	116550
32	116550	116550	116550	116550
32.5	116550	116550	116550	116550
33 & above	116550	116550	116550	116550

Note: 1) For revision of pension, the qualifying service mentioned in first column shall be taken as actual qualifying service rendered for which pension had been sanctioned.

2) To cover invalid out cases, rates of pension has been indicated from 1/2 years of service up to Colonel rank and from 20 years of service for Brigadier and above ranks though such cases may not occur in reality in higher ranks.

3) Rates for Lt. Gen (HAG +) are applicable for post 2006 retirees

Qualifying service	ARMY CDR	VCOAS	COAS
	11	12	13
33 & above	116550	116550	125000

“Where the revised pension as of 01.07.2024 worked out in terms of these orders, happens to be less than the existing pension/family pension as of 01.07.2024, the pension shall not be revised to the disadvantage of the pensioner/family pensioner,” according to the Defence Ministry letter.

“The remaining implementing instructions/methodology mentioned in para 7 to 16 of GoI, MoD letter dated 20.01.2023 shall be equally applicable in implementation of this order except for the date of effect i.e. 01.07.2024 instead of 01.07.2019,” it added.

Readers can access the full list of tables depicting revised pensions under OROP on the Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare website.