DISPARITY IN RETIREMENT AGE of COLONEL AND EQUIVALENT
Retirement age from 54 year to 57 years for all time scale officers in the rank of Commander/Gp Capt/Colonel has been accepted by the Court but it has not been implemented at-par in tri services causing financial loss as well as service. Due to repeated intervention by various AFTs, now it is clear that all Officers not being promoted beyond Colonel or equivalent are entitled to serve till 57 years of age, if not than remedied lies before Court.
POSTING IN VIOLATION OF POLICY/HRP – Special care is needed to manage the posing profile of armed forces personnel. Despite guidelines and service requirement, sometime issue such as compassionate is being ignored. Due to unforeseen reason, back to back posting to Hard area, causes agony to armed forces personnel and if it done on the verge of others, due to compounding reasons, which is not at all sustainable in eye of Law.
DISCHARGE – Pre-mature discharge in Armed Forces is not permitted in normal course but on specific ground, one can proceed discharge after approval of Authority concerned but it is growing trend in Army that numbers of JCOs are being sent discharge before end of term of engagement, after force consent which is un-warranted. Compassionate ground discharge is as per individual choice but now it is adapted as tools to benefit others by creating vacancy to favour others.
EXTENSION OF SERVICE – It is not matter of right but while exercising power, authority must take every precaution before curtailing someone tenure of service thus casing bread & butter of such family at belated stage of life. Even hands of Court are tight on this issue but if power is being exercised arbitrarily, one has to raise the voice.
RE-SURVEY MEDICAL BOARD – All LMC veteran not given disability element, has the right to re-survey their disability within 07 years of discharge, if their assessment was not done as per gravity of the disease or percentage was not fixes as provided in Entitlement rules or Guide to Medical Officers Military Pension.
RECOVERY OF PENSION – Any belated recovery in pension is declared illegal by Apex Court, withholding of pension on superannuation, which is livelihood, is liable to be gross violation of fundamental right and entitled for interest on arrears with consequential benefits.