Navdeep Singh examines the revelations of impropriety in fixing disability pensions for veterans and lays bare the dishonesty of the exercise.
Fudged data, disabled soldiers and dishonest intentions
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Tag: ex-servicemen
Veteran writes open letter to Defense Minister
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A former JAG officer writes to Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar, asking him to ensure ‘Indian Military Veterans like me command respect and dignity in my own country too, just as we do, ironically, in other democracies’.
Defense Ministry moves to overhaul pensions
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Defense Minister A.K. Antony directed orders to be issued by the end of this month for the payment of increased pensions for personnel who retired before 2006 at a cost of INR 2,300 crore, by March 31, 2013, which is expected to affected over two million veterans.
MoD calls in white collar sleuths in veterans’ jobs fraud
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In a first, the Ministry of Defense has called in the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to investigate a case of a conspiracy to improperly procure contracts from the office of the Directorate General of Resettlement.
