OBITUARY

With profound grief DOWA announces the demise of Mrs.Maheswari Nayar, wife of our Patron Brig RB Nayar. May her soul rest in peace.

REVISED DISABILITY PENSION

Dear Friends,
Jai Hind.
Revised orders regarding Disability/War Injury Element of Pension have been issued by Government of India vide their letter dated 19th Jan 2010.
The copy of the letter and its annexure floating on the internet is not very legible. I have typed this letter and its annexure for the benefit of affected personnel.

While lot of care has been taken by me to check and recheck the contents of the version typed by me but some minor error somewhere cannot be ruled out.
I have the MS Word version of this letter now available with me. Those who need the MS Word version may kindly write to me.

Please give widest possible publicity to this letter. Kindly have it displayed at ECHS Polyclinics, CSD Canteens, Officers Clubs and Community Centres etc.

If you need any clarifications on the subject, you may kindly refer it to the IESM Pension Cell - pension@iesm.org .
I am not in a position to give any clarifications on the subject


In service of Indian Military Veterans
Chander Kamboj
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No.10 (01)/D (Pen/Pol)/2009/Vol.II
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
New Delhi
Dated 19th Jan, 2010.
To,
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

Subject: Revision of Disability/War Injury Element of pension in respect of Armed Forces Officers and PBOR pensioners based on the recmmendations of Cabinet Secretary Committee Report.

Sir,
The undersigned is directed to state that the in order to considre various issues on pension of Armed Forces Pensioners, Government had set up a Committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary. The reommendations of the said Cabinet Secretary’s Committee on disability/war injury pension have been considered by the Government and the President is pleased to decide that with effect from 1.7.2009, the concept of broad bandiing of percentage of disability/war injury, as provided in Para 7.2 of this Ministry’s letter No 1(2)/97/D(Pen-C) dated 31.01.2001, shall be extended to Armed Forces Officers and PBOR who were invalided out of service prior to 1.1.1996 and are in receipt of disability/war injury pension as on 1.7.2009. Wherever, the disability being accepted as less than 20% at initial stage or subsequent stage on reassessment of disability, the same will continue to be disallowed and such cases will not be re-opened.

2. Further, the President is also pleased to decide tht the cap on war injury pension with reference to emoluments last drawn in the case of disabled pensioners belonging to categor ‘E’ of Para 4.1 of this Ministry’s above mentioned letter dated 31.1.2001, shall stand removed with effect from 1.7.2009 for Armed Forces Officers and PBOR pensioners. The provision contained in Para 8 of this Ministry’s letter No PC 1(2)97/D(Pen-C) Dated 16.5.2001, Para 10.1(b). of this Ministry letter No. 1(2)/97/D(Pen-C) dated 31.1.2001 and para 6.4 & 7.4 of this Ministry’s letter No. 16(6)/2008(2)/D(Pen/Pol) dated 5.5.2009, shall stand modified to that extent.

3. The disability/war injury element of pension in all such cases shall be recomputed accordingly under these orders by the Pension Sanctioning Authorities (PSAs) concerned for rgulating payment under this Ministry’s letter No. 16(6)/2008(1)/ D(Pen/Policy) dated 4.5.2009 and letter No. 16(6)/2008(2)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 5.5.2009. For this purpose, each affected Armed Forces pensioner who is in receipt of disability/war injury element of pension as on 1.7.2009 will submit an application in the format enclosed as Annexure to this letter to PSAs concerned for revision of disability/war injury element of pension in terms of Para 1 and 2 above, as the case may be. Further implementation instructions to all concerned will be issued by PCDA(Pensions) Allahabad immediately on reeipt of these orders.

4. Revision of war injury element of pension in respect of those who have been retired/discharged/invalidated out of service on or after 1.7.2009 under category ‘E’ and in whose case war injury pension has already been notified in terms of this Ministry’s above mentioned letter dated 5.5.2009, will be carried out suo-moto by PSAs concerned by issue of corrigendum PPOs without any application from the concerned pensioners.

5. This issues with the concurrenc of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their U.O.No. 51/Fin/Pen dated 08.01.2010.
Hindi versoin will follow.
Yours faithfully,
Sd xxx
(Harbans Singh)
Director (Pension Policy)
Encl: a/a
Copy to : - As per standard distribution list.
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Annexure
(Referred to Para 3 of MOD letter No 10(1)/2009/D(Pen/Policy) dated 19.1.2010)
FORM OF APPLICATION
(To be submitted IN TRIPLICATE by Armed Forces disability pensioners invalided out prior to 1.1.1996 and war injury pesnioners invalided out prior to 1.7.2009 and those released after 1.1.2008 but before 1.7.2009 and drawing disability/war injury element of pension as on 1.7.2009)
To (Pension Disbursing Authority)
.....................................
.....................................

Sub: Recomputation of disability/war injury element of pension drawing pension as on 1.7.2009
Sir,
Wit a view to recompute my disability/war injury element of pension in terms of Ministry of Defence letter No 10(1)/2009/D(Pen/Policy) dated ........ 2009, the requisite particulars are given below : -
1. Name of the pensioner
2. Rank/group and Regt No/IC No
3. Date of Enrolment/Commission
4. Date of invalidment
5. Type of pension admissible
6. PPO No/Corr.PPO No underwhich
disability/war injury element of pension
on invalidment was notified.
7. Percentage of disability for which
disability/war injury element is being
drawn as on 1.7.2009
8. Amount of existing disability/war
injury element being drawn as on 1.7.2009
9. Amount of existing service element of
disability/war injury element being drawn
as on 1.7.2009
10. Pension Disbursing Agency (Paying
bank branch with SB/Current A/c No/
Treasury/DPDO/PAO
11. Name of applicant if the application is
being made on behalf of pensioner for
Life-Time Arrears (LTA)
12. Address of the family pensioner/applicant
Date:
(Signature of Pensioner/Applicant)
..... 2

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PART II
(To be completed by the PDA of the pensioner)
The particulars mentioned above are verified with reference to pension account held and forwarded to the Record Office .............................................. (full address) in the case of PBOR and PSAs concerned ............................................... (full adress) in the case of commissioned officers.
No ......
Date .....

(SIGNATURE)
Rubber stamp of Pension Disbursing Authority
PART III
(To be completed by the Record office of the pensioner)
Verified and forwarded to the PSAs concerned .................................................
(full address)
No ......
Date .....
(SIGNATURE)
Rubber stamp of Pension Disbursing Authority

Address of Pension Sanctioning Authorities:
Army, Navy & Air Force Officers
1. The Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions)
Draupdighat, Allahabad – 211014.
For such Naval and Airforce officers who retired from service on or after 1.11.1985
2. The Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Navy)
2, Cooper Road, Mumbai – 400039.
3. Jt Controller of Defence Accounts (AF)
Subroto Park, Delhi Cantt – 110010.

DOWA Annual Day Celebration

The 21st annual day of DOWA was celebrated at the Engrs Offrs Mess on 16 Jan 10. The FOCinC Admiral Susheel and the Previous VCNS Admiral Prem Suthan along with their lady wives attended the grand function.
It was a well attended and colourful event with songs and dance. The food was very good and sumptuous. Naval Jazz band and a private orchestra added colour to the function.
Before the celebrations commenced the regular monthly meeting was conducted and the baton was handed over to the new President Col NN Pillai by the outgoing President Brig VA Narayanan.
The FOC-in-C assured all help to the DOWA. Brig Narayanan welcomed the guests and Col RB Nair read out report on DOWA activity.

Publish your views and comments

Dear Members
I do not find any active participation by our members in the blogspot. Please come up and air your views. There are so many issues that warrant our attention and opinion. Please make use of this forum to your maximum benefit

WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING

Friends,
Here is a gem that I found on the Indian Veterans Group site on the Net today. It's worth reading and pondering over in the context of the scenario in our country.
Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living.
This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading, in my opinion. Not only does it make a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living. This is a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served, think of the military.

Senator Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: "How can you run for Senate when you've never ever held a "real job?"

Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the Space Program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line.
It was not a nine to five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me ...as I went the other day ... to a Veterans Hospital and look those men - with their mangled bodies - in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job!
You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee ... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DADS didn't hold a job.
You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags. You stand there, and you think about this Nation, and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?
I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men - SOME MEN - who held a REAL job. And they required a dedication to a purpose - and a love of country and a dedication to duty - that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.
I HAVE held a job, Howard! --- What about you?"

Colonel ( retd) N K Balakrishnan,
" SINHGARH",Pulleppady,
Chittoor Road,Kochi-682018
Phone- ( 0484) 2380987

LITTLE KNOWN TIDBIT OF NAVY

The U. S. S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators (i.e. fresh water distillers).

However, let it be noted that according to her ship's log, "On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S. Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum."

Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."

Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum.

Then she headed for the Azores , arriving there 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine.

On 18 November, she set sail for England . In the ensuing days she defeated five British men-of-war and captured and scuttled 12 English merchant ships, salvaging only the rum aboard each.

By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted. Nevertheless, although unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of Clyde in Scotland . Her landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.

The U. S. S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February 1799, with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky, and 38,600 gallons of water.


GO NAVY

-Col RP Chaturvedi

A GOOD SITE FOR REFERENCES

Hi
This one is a good site for all references. Try it.
Copy and paste the link on the address bar to access.

http://www.india.gov.in/howdo/index.php

Brig PKK Menon