6th Central Pay Commission - Pension of Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) discharged from service on or after 01.01.2006.

6th Central Pay Commission - Pension of Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) discharged from service on or after 01.01.2006.

No.1(15)/2012/D(Pen/Pol)
Government of India/Bharat Sarkar
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
D(Pension/Policy)

Dated 6th February 2019

To
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Navil Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

Subject: Implementation of the Government decision on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission - Pension of Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) discharged from service on or after 01.01.2006.

The undersigned is directed to refer to the provisions contained in this Ministry's letter No.17(4)/08(2)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 18.08.2010 as amended vide this Ministry’s letter No.17(4)/2008/D(Pen/Policy) dated 20.09.2012 under which a note below Para 3(v) of the ibid MoD letter dated 18.08.2010 was inserted regarding non-applicability of provisions of letter dated 18.08.2010 to JCOs granted Honorary Commission as Leiutenant and Captain.

2. Further, in supersession of the provision contained in this Ministry’s letter No.17(4)/2008(2)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 20.09.2012, letter No.1(15)/2012/D(Pen/Policy) dated 17.01.2013 was issued under which it was decided that the provisions of MoD letter dated 18.08.2010 are also applicable to post 01.01.2006 JCOs/Ors granted Honorary Commission as Lieutenant and Captain with effect from 24.09.2012.

3. The President is now pleased to decide that provisions of this Ministry’s letter dated 18.08.2010 shall also be applicable to post 01.01.2006 JCOs/ORs granted Honorary Commission as Lieutenant and Captain. The notional pay in the revised pay structure for these ranks shall be worked out by adding pay in the revised pay band corresponding to the Fixed pay of Fifth CPC (in terms of Para 9(a) (i) of SAI 1/S/2008 as amended and equivalent instructions for Navy & Air Force)” plus the Grade pay and Military Service Pay introduced under Sixth CPC revised pay structure.

4. In view of the above, the note below Para 3(v) of this Ministry’s letter No. 17(4)/08(2)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 18.08.2010 inserted vide this Ministry's letter No. 17(4)/2008(2)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 20.09.2012 may be considered as deleted.

5. The financial benefit in past cases shall be granted from 01.01.2006 or date of discharge/invalidment, whichever is later. In this regard, concerned PSA's would suo-moto issue Corr PPO based on the data of post 2006 retired Hony Commissioned Officers held with them.

6. All other terms and conditions shall remain unchanged.

7. This issue with the concurrence of the Finance Division of this Minister vide their ID No.10(15)/2015/FIN/PEN dated 02.01.2019

8. Hindi version will follow.

sd/-
(Manoj Sinha)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. Of India

Fixation of Pension of Retired Medical officers of AMC/ADC/RVC - DESW Orders

Fixation of Pension of Retired Medical officers of AMC/ADC/RVC - DESW Orders

"The fixation of pension/ family pension of retired Medical officers of AMC/ADC/RVC in the above manner, shall be further subject to the condition that emoluments (i.e. Basic Pay MSP + NPA) to be reckoned for pension do not exceed Rs. 2,37,500/- (Rupees two lakh thirty seven thousand and five hundred only). Amount of Gratuity and CVP which has already been notified, shall remain unchanged. "

No.1(7)/2014/D(Pen/Policy)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi, 24th May, 2018

To
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

Sub: Implementation of Government’s decision on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission on revision of provisions regulating Pension/Gratuity/Commutation of Pension/Family Pension including pensionary awards notified in terms of casualty pensionary awards Fixation of Pension of Commissioned Officers of Army Medical Corps/Army Dental Corps/Remount & Veterinary Corps retired during 1.1.2016 to 30.6.2017.

Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry's letter No.17(02)/2016/D(Pen/Pol) dated 4th September, 2017. In accordance with Para 4.1.1 of said letter, the emoluments reckoned for calculation of pension include Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) granted to Medical officers of Army Medical Corps /Army Dental Corps / Remount & Veterinary Corps.

2. For Medical Officers of Armed Forces who have retired from 1.1.2016 to 30.6.2017, their pension is based on emoluments which included NPA @ 25% of the pre-revised pay. Orders have been issued by Ministry of Defence vide letter No. 4(10)/2017/D(Med) dated 28th September, 2017 for grant of NPA to serving medical officers @ 20% of basic pay w.e.f. 1.7.2017. Accordingly, the medical officers retired/retiring on or after 1.7.2017 are entitled to pension based on emoluments which include NPA at the rate of 20% of the revised basic pay.

3. The matter regarding revision of pension the Medical Officers of Armed Forces who retired during 1.1.2016 to 30.6.2017 based on revised rate of NPA has been examined by the Government. It has been decided that all kind of pension/family pension in respect of Medical officers of Armed Forces who retired/died during 1.12016 to 30.6.2017 and were drawing NPA at old rates on the date of retirement/death, shall be further revised w.e.f. 1.7.2017 by adding NPA @ 20% to the basic pay on the date of retirement. The fixation of pension/ family pension of retired Medical officers of AMC/ADC/RVC in the above manner, shall be further subject to the condition that emoluments (i.e. Basic Pay MSP + NPA) to be reckoned for pension do not exceed Rs. 2,37,500/- (Rupees two lakh thirty seven thousand and five hundred only). Amount of Gratuity and CVP which has already been notified, shall remain unchanged.

4. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence (Finance/Pension) vide their ID No. 10(8)/2018/Fin.Pen dated 11.05.2018.

5. Hindi version will follow.

Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(Manoj Sinha)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Source: www.desw.gov.in

Recognition of Ex-Servicemen's Association - DESW Orders

Recognition of Ex-Servicemen's Association - DESW Orders

No. 28(86)2017/D (Res-I)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare

Sena Bhawan, New Delhi
Dated the 6th March, 2018.

To
Directorate General Resettlement
West Block IV, Wing 5,
R.K.Puram, New Delhi-110066.

Subject: Recognition of Ex-Servicemen's Association

Sir,
I am directed to refer to this Ministry’s letter No. 9(37)92/US(WE)/D(Res) dated 31.1.1996, on the subject mentioned above and to revise the guidelines for formation and conduct of Ex-Servicemen Associations and their recognition. The Associations will be accorded recognition subject to their fulfillment of revised conditions as under:-

(a) The Associations should be registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The state chapters of the said Ex-Servicemen Association too should be registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The Association should have been formed with aims and objectives of promoting the common interest of Ex-Servicemen and should have well defined bye-laws and rules approved by the Registrar of the Societies under the Societies Registration Act, 1860

(b) The Associations should have a minimum membership of One Lakh. This membership, however, in case of associations exclusively of Naval Ex-Servicemen or exclusively of Air Force Ex-Servicemen should not have less than ten thousand members. War widows Associations and Disabled War Veterans Associations will be exempted from the criteria of minimum membership.

(c) The Associations formed shall be with the sole intent of projection of grievances / recommendations / problems of Ex-Servicemen and for their amelioration to the Government through its Offices. The Ex-Servicemen Associations will not imply any right to negotiate to the problems/grievances of the Ex-Servicemen.

(d) The Associations in no case should be formed on religious, social, linguistic, area and caste lines. They should be apolitical in nature with no affiliation or contiguity to any Political party or political Association. The Ex-Servicemen Associations shall not espouse any political or religious thoughts to its members or the society, nor should it be in possession of or maintaining any fund amassed through political or religious leaders.

(e) The membership should be comprised exclusively of ESM and they should not be involved in any type of criminal activity/proceedings in any Court of Law.

(f) No other source of fund is allowed to be collected by the Association except subscriptions.

(g) The Associations should not be associated with any Foreign Government or Company / conglomerate and any foreign Governments. Under no circumstances should the association accept any donations/pecuniary benefits from any foreign concern/entity.

(h) The Association shall in not way enter into any communication with any foreign entity. All such correspondences are to be exclusively channelized through the Government and the Government shall have the prerogative to withhold it, if it so deems necessary.

(i) The Acts, charter and conduct of the Ex-Servicemen Associations should not be for anti-Government activities or for acts prejudicial to national interest and security.

(j) The Association shall submit an undertaking affirming its faith in democratic principles and binding itself to resort only to the lawful activities for representing the Ex-Servicemen’s problems.

(k) The Association shall not raise issues in the interest of any caste, tribe or religious denomination.

(l) The Association shall not maintain any political fund or lend itself to the propagation of the view of any political party or a member of such party.

(m) The Association shall be composed of Ex-Servicemen, widows and their next of kin only.

(n) The Association should have a Pan India presence i.e., the Ex-Servicemen Association should be of all India Character and should have adequate number of branches at State and District level. Its Office bearers should be composed of a mix of personnel of all three servies and ranks. The Composite Associations representing Ex-Servicemen of the three services should have a balance of tri service representation and also balanced representation of all ranks i.e. Officers, JCOs and OR and equivalent rank of the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Associations shall submit duly verified list of its members and Office bearers once every year to Directorate General of Resettlement (DGR) after their Annual General Meeting.

(o) The Association shall have duly elected body of office bearers from amongst its members only, valid for a specified period.

(p) The Association shall have a Constitution/bye laws and its functioning should be strictly in accordance with the said charter of its adopted Constitution/bye laws.

(q) Any amendment in the constitution/bye laws of the Association, after its recognition under these rules, shall be made only with the prior approval of the Government, if the recognition is to be continued thereafter.

(r) The Association shall endeavour to hold at least one Annual Body Meeting every year, and the dates and schedule of which should be duly notified in advance to its members and its Office bearers with the proposed agenda points.

(s) The Association shall maintain only one bank account for its operations. The persons authorized to operate these bank accounts shall be selected in its annual general body meetings. Changes, if any, at any later date(s) shall be with consensus and by a majority selection.

(t) The Association shall have its accounts checked every year by a registered Chartered Accountant and copy of the audited accounts, as well as its annual report should be made available to DGR within thirty days of such check for information and scrutiny.

(u) The Association shall inform the Government of all accounts operated by it on all social media platform and only the authorized Office bearers of the association are permitted to post messages on such sites. No offensive posts are to be posted. The Office bearers are to familiarize themselves with Indian IT Act prior to operating any such account.

(v) The Association shall not publish any periodicals, journal, magazines, bulletins etc. without the prior consent of the Government. In no case writings of defamatory nature, vilifying any individuals, group of individuals, private sources and Government shall be permitted to be printed in such publishings. The publishings shall in no way disrupt any ties of the Government with any State Government/foreign concern/Government or any Government authority. The publishing shall also not be inimical to the Government or to the Society. The copies of all such periodicals, bulletins and magazines, journals (as the case may be) shall be supplied by the Association to the Department of ESW, DGR and KSB.

(w) The communication addressed by the Association or any office bearers on its behalf to the Government or Government authority shall not contain any disrespectful or improper language.

(x) In any communications addressed to the Government or in any panel on any national/regional television channels, it shall be ensured that the choice of language used is respectful and not defamatory of the Government or its agencies and such appearances should not be a tool to ignite passions for any particular agenda.

(y) The Association shall not indulge in any Commercial activity with the objective of generating any income/profits.

2. The Associations, including the existing ones, desirous of being considered for recognition may apply to the office of the DGR, West Block IV, Wing-5, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 with documentary proofs in support of and fulfillment of the conditions of recognition as mentioned above along with Memorandum of Understanding, Constitution, Bye Laws, Names and address of Office bearers, membership, certificate of registration by the Registrar of Societies. Any false representations and/or any false documents/evidences submitted shall make the concerned association liable for permanent rejection and penal action.

3. Verification of the membership of the Association as Ex-Servicemen Association shall be carried out through the DGR.

4. The recognition will not entitle any Association or any person concerned with it to any financial or other assistance from the Government.

5. The recognition to the Association shall be subject to its adherence of its Constitution, Bye Laws and observance and fullfillment of the conditions and criteria as laid down in the guidelines.They are to be followed in letter and spirit and the said membership can be revoked by the Government if any of the associations fail to comply with the guidelines.

6. Only the authorized persons as detailed by the Ex-Servicemen Associations shall be permitted to deal with the Government and/or submit application/letters. The associations shall, however, see that causes of individual nature of Ex-Servicemen are not espoused/supported.

7. The Government may dispense with or relax the requirements of any of these rules to such extent and subject to such conditions as it may deem fit in regard to any Association.

Yours faithfully,
(Manmohan Pipil)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India

7th CPC: Revision of Disability/ War Injury pension for pre-1.1.2016 Defence Forces pensioners

Implementation of Government decision on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) - Revision of Disability/ War Injury pension for pre-1.1.2016 Defence Forces pensioners

No.17(01)/2017/D(Pen/Policy)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi-110011,
Dated 23rd January, 2018

The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

Subject: Implementation of Government decision on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) - Revision of Disability/ War Injury pension for pre-1.1.2016 Defence Forces pensioners reg.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry's letter No. 17(01)/2016-D(Pen/Pol) dated 29th October 2016 modified vide letter No 17(01)/2017(01)/ D(Pension/Policy) dated 4th September, 2017 for revision of pension of pre-2016 Defence Forces pensioners/ family pensioners in implementation of the Government decisions on the recommendations of the 7th CPC. As per the same, disability element/ liberalized disability element/ war injury element of Defence Forces pensioners have been revised by the pension disbursing agencies by multiplying the existing rate of disability element as on 31.12.2015, by factor of 2.57 to arrive at revised rate of disability element as on 1.1.2016. The Ministry vide letter No 17(01)/2017(02)/D(Pension/Policy) dated 5th September, 2017 have also issued orders for revision of pension including disability element by issue of corrigendum PPO based on notional pay fixed as on 1.1.2016 in the 7th CPC pay matrix corresponding to the pay in the pay scale/ pay band 86 grade pay in which the pensioner had retired. The later order of 5th September, 2017 allows the benefit of broad banding of disability in cases of retirement/ discharge voluntary or otherwise with disability/war injury and additional pension on disability/war injury element to be authorized by issue of corrigendum PPO

2. In partial modification of Ministry's said order dated 29th October, 2016 as modified, the President is now pleased to decide that in cases where Armed Forces pensioners who were retired/discharged voluntary or otherwise with disability and were in receipt of disability/war injury element as on 31.12.2015, their extent of disability shall be re-computed in the following manner before applying the multiplication factor of 2.57 on existing disability/war injury element to arrive at the revised disability element/war injury element as on 1.1.2016.

Accepted percentage of disability	Percentage to be reckoned for computation of Disability Element
20% or more but less than 50%	50%
Between 50% to 75%	75%
Between 76% to 100%	100%

3. Rates for calculation of disability where composite assessment has been made due to existence of disability as well as war injury, shall be determined in terms of provision contained in Para 3(b) of Ministry’s letter No.16(02)/2015-D(Pen/Pol) dated 8th August 2016. The amount of revised disability element finally arrived shall be rounded off to next higher rupee.

4. The president is also pleased to decide that quantum of additional pension available to old age pensioners after attaining the age of 80 years and above, shall also be admissible on revised disability/war injury element. The Note below para 12 of this Ministry’s above mentioned letter dated 29th October,2016 stands deleted.

5. The provisions of this Ministry's above -mentioned letter dated 29th October 2016 as modified vide letter dated 4th September,2017 and dated 5th September,2017 which are not affected by the provisions of this letter, shall remain unchanged.

6. PCDA (Pensions) Allahabad shall issue necessary implementation instructions for implementation of provisions of these orders directly by the pension disbursing agencies.

7. The provisions of this letter shall take effect from 1.1.2016.

8. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their ID No.Part file (i) to 30(01)/2016/Fin/Pen dated 15.12.2017.

9. Hindi Version will follow.

Yours faithfully
sd/-
(Manoj Sinha)
Under Secretary to the Government of India.

Authority: www.desw.gov.in

85 Private ECHS Hospital List as on 8.12.2017

85 Private ECHS Hospital List as on 8.12.2017

EMPANELMENT OF HOSPITALS / NURSING HOMES AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES/ CENTRES FOR ECHS

No. 22B(15)/2017-WE/D(Res-I)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Dept of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi 04.01.2018

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

To,
The Managing Director
Central Organisation, ECHS
Maude Line, Delhi Cantt

Subject:- EMPANELMENT OF HOSPITALS / NURSING HOMES AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES/ CENTRES FOR ECHS

I am directed to state that in terms of the provisions of Govt of India, Ministry of Defence letter No. 22B(04)/2010/US(WE)/D(Res) dated 18 Feb 2011, 22B(02)/2013/US(WE)/D(Res) dated 18 Oct 2013 and 22B(02)/2013/US(WE)/D(Res) dated 24 Feb 2015, it has now been decided by the Competent Authority to empanel 85 Private Hospitals/Nursing Homes and Diagnostic Laboratories Centres for different specialities and procedures with ECHS as recommended by the 12th Screening Committee for empanelment of Medical facilities with ECHS in its meeting held on 8-12-2017 under the Chairmanship of MD, ECHS as per the list attached in the Annexure:-

S.No	City	Name of Hospitals	Annexure No
1.	Adoor	Mount Zion Medical College	1
2.	Ahmedabad	New Delhi Centre for Sight Ltd	2
3.	Ajmer	Kshetrapal Hospital Multispeciality and Research Centre	3
4.	Akhnoor	Neelkanth Health Care	4
5.	Alappuzha	VSM Hospital	5
6.	Amritsar	Dev Hospital	6
7.	Amritsar	Akashdeep Neuro Trauma & Multi Super Speciality Hospital	6
8.	Amritsar	Ajit Hospital	6
9.	Amritsar	Surinder Hospital	7
10.	Amritsar	Verma Hospital	7
11.	Amritsar (Jandiala Guru)	Ranjit Multispeciality & Trauma Hospital	7
12.	Amritsar (Putlighar)	Ranjit Hospital	8
13.	Bangalore	Davita Care India Pvt Ltd	9
14.	Bangalore	Columbia Clinic	9
15.	Bhopal	Siddhanta Redcross Superspeciality Hospital	10
16.	Bhopal	Galaxy Hospital	11
17.	Bhopal	ASG Hospital Pvt Ltd	11
18.	Chandigarh	Mirchiash Diagnostics	12
19.	Coimbatore	Ganga Medical Centre & Hospitals Pvt Ltd	13
20.	Delhi (Kirti Nagar)	Total Diagnostics Care	14
21.	Delhi (Rohini)	Must & More Healthcare Pvt Ltd	14
22.	Delhi (Sector-18, Rohini)	Dr Lal PathLabs Ltd	15
23.	Delhi (Shahdara)	East Delhi Medical Centre	15
24.	Delhi (Shahdara)	CM Patel Hospital	15
25.	Delhi (Yamuna Vihar)	Dr Chaudhary’s Moral Hospital Pvt Ltd	16
26.	New Delhi (Dwarka)	Venkateshwar Hospital	16
27.	New Delhi (Tilak Nagar)	Janta X-Ray Clinic Pvt Ltd	17
28.	New Delhi (West Patel Nagar)	Khanna Medicare Centre	17
29.	Faridabad	QRG Central Hospital & Research Centre Ltd	18
30.	Gohana	Shri Balaji Dental Clinic	19
31.	Greater Noida	Sharma Medicare Pvt Ltd	20
32.	Gurdaspur	Dr KD’s Eye Hospital	21
33.	Gurgaon	Sudharshan Poly Dental Centre	22
34.	Gurgaon	Santhosh Clinic-The Dental Studio	22
35.	Haldwani	Brijlal Hospital & Research Centre	23
36.	Hisar	Aadhar Health Institute	24
37.	Hisar	Geetanjali Hospital	25
38.	Hisar	Sukhda Multispeciality Hospital	26
39.	Hisar	Medicity Multispeciality Hospital & Neuro Centre	27
40.	Hubli	HCG NMR Cancer centre	28
41.	Hyderabad	Anu’s Dental Care	29
42.	Hyderabad	St. Theresa’s Hospital	29
43.	Jalandhar	Kataria Eye Hospital & ENT Hospital PVt Ltd	30
44.	Jalandhar	Akal Eye Hospital & Lasik Laser Centre	30
45.	Jalandhar	India Kidney Hospital & Dialysis Centre	30
46.	Jhunjhunu	CKRD Memorial Hospital & Research Institute	31
47.	Kaithal	Shah Hospital	32
48.	Kaithal	Cygnus Super Speciality Hospital	32
49.	Kanpur	Globus Hospital	33
50.	Kanpur	Shri Jayram Hospital & Trauma Centre	33
51.	Karnal	Sanjeev Bansal Cygnus Hospital	34
52.	Karnal	Balaji Hospital	34
53.	Karur	Velan Eye Hospital	35
54.	Khurza	Kailash Hospital	36
55.	Ludhiana	Sri Guru Harkrishan Sahib Advanced Eye Care Centre	37
56.	Ludhiana	Mind Plys Healthcare Pvt Ltd	37
57.	Manipal	KMC Hospital	38
58.	Manipal	Kasturba Hospital	39
59.	Mansa	Raikhy Nursing Home and Surgical Centre	40
60.	Moga	Rajeev Hospital	41
61.	Mysore	Narayana Hrudayala Surgical Hospital Pvt Ltd	42
62.	Mysore	Nethradham Super Speciality Eye Hospital	43
63.	Nagpur	Akshar Eye Institute and dental Clinic	44
64.	Nagpur	Kolarkar Dental Clinic	44
65.	Ongole	Sanghamitra Hospital Pvt Ltd	45
66.	Pathanamthitta	St. Thomas Hospital	46
67.	Pathankot	SKR Hospitals & Trauma Centre Pvt Ltd	47
68.	Patiala	Sodhi Eye Hospital	48
69.	Pune	Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital	49
70.	Pune	Dr Prasanna’s Dental Clinic & Implant Centre	50
71.	Sambalpur	Sanjivani Family Hospital	51
72.	Sangrur	Sibla Health Care Pvt Ltd	52
73.	Shimoga	Sahyadri Narayana Multispeciality	53
74.	Sikar	Eye Care Hospital	54
75.	Siliguri	Centre for Eye Sight	55
76.	Solan	Apex Diagnostics	56
77.	Sonepat	Tulip Multispeciality Hospital Pvt Ltd	57
78.	Sonepat	Rama Multi Speciality Hospital	57
79.	Surat	Eye Q Vision Pvt Ltd	58
80.	Taran Tarn	Anand Heart & Multispeciality Hospital	59
81.	Thalassery	Indira Gandhi Cooperative Hospital	60
82.	Tirupati	Meghana Multispeciality Dental Hospital	61
83.	Tirupur	Revathi Medical Centre Tirupur India Pvt Ltd	62
84.	Trivandrum	Amardeep Eye Care	63
85.	Vadodara	Eye Q Super Speciality Eye Hospital	64

2.All the terms and conditions including fixation of rates payable to empanelled hospitals will be regulated under Govt of India, Ministry of Defence letter No. 22B(04)/2010/US(WE)/D(Res) dated 18 Feb 2011 and amended from time to time.

3.The rates for ECHS Hospital/Nursing Home, Dental Centres and Diagnostic Centres as approved by the Empowered Committee will be as per CGHS rates and will be notified by the Director, Regional Centre ECHS to all concerned including Polyclinics, SEMOs, CDA/PCDA and Central Organisation ECHS.

4.Empanelment of CGHS empanelled hospitals is subject to the hospital providing proof of its being a CGHS empanelled facility as on the date of signing MoA with ECHS.

5.CGHS empanelled medical facilities will be empanelled with ECHS for the period for which the facilities hod valid MoA with CGHS. The MoA will be extendable once CGHS renew the MoA with the medical facilities.

6.NABH accredited medical facilities will be empanelled with ECHS for the period of validity of NABH certificate and the MoA will be renewed once the medical facility is issued revalidation/renewed NABH certificate.

7. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence (Finance) vide their U.O. No. 34(05)/2010/Fin/Pen/Vol.IV dated 26-12-2017.

sd/-
(AR Kam)
Under Secretary to the Govt of India

Authority: www.desw.gov.in

Revised rates of ECHS contribution and entitlement of Ward in Empanelled Hospitals Medical Facilities

Revised rates of ECHS contribution and entitlement of Ward in Empanelled Hospitals/Medical Facilities.Dated 29.12.2017.

Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
Sena Bhavan, New Delhi

Dated 29th Dec., 2017

To,

The Chief of Army Staff
The Chief of Naval Staff
The Chief of Air Staff
Subject : Revised rates of ECHS contribution and entitlement of Ward in Empanelled Hospitals Medical Facilities.
Sir,

In supersession of the Government of India, Ministry of Defence letter No.22(16)/05/US/(WE)/D(Res) dated 19 July 2005 and dated August, 2011, I am directed to convey the sanction of the Government to revise rates of ECHS contribution to be paid by ESM and ward entitlement as under :

S.No.	Category	One time Contribution	Ward Entitlement
(a)	Recruit to Havs & equivalent in Navy & AF	Rs.30,000/-	General
(b)	Nb Sub/Sub/Sub Maj or equivalent in Navy & AF (including Hony Nb Sub/MACP Nb Sub and Hony Lt/Capt.	Rs.67,000/-	Semi Private
(c)	All Officers	Rs.1,20,000/-	Private

2. The revised order will be effective from the date of issue of this letter.

3. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence (Finance) vide their ID No.32(09)/2016/Fin/Pen dated 22-11-2017.Yours faithfully,

sd/-
(A.K.Karn)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Authority: http://www.desw.gov.in/

Eligibility of widowed/divorced daughter for grant of Family Pension clarification – Desw Orders dt. 17.11.2017

Eligibility of widowed/divorced daughter for grant of Family Pension clarification – Desw Orders dt. 17.11.2017

No.1(9)/2013-D(Pen/Policy)

Government of India

Ministry of Defence

Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi -110011

Dated 17th November, 2017

To
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief or the Air Staff

Subject: Eligibility of widowed/divorced daughter for grant of Family Pension clarification.

The undersigned is directed to state that the provision for grant of family pension to a widowed/divorced daughter beyond the age of 25 years has been made vide GoI, Ministry of personnel, P.C. & Pensions, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare 0M No.1/19/03-(E) dated 2S.08.2004 Circulated vide GoI MOD letter No.878/A/D(Pen/Sers)/04 dated 21.09.2004 applying the same provision to the Armed Force Personnel.

2. It was clarified vide Government of India, Ministry of Personnel, P.G- & Pensions, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare OM No.1/13/09-P&PW (E) dated 11.09.2013 circulated vide MOD ID No.1(9)/2013/D(Pen/Pol) dated 16.09.2015, the family pension is payable to the children as they are considered to be dependent on the Government servant/pensioner or his/her spouse. A child who is not earning equal to or more than the sum of minimum family pension and dearness relief thereon is considered to be dependent on his/her parents. Therefore, only those children who are dependent and meet other conditions of eligibility for family pension at the time of death of the Government servant or his/her spouse, whichever is later, are eligible for family pension. If two or more children are eligible for family pension at that time, family pension will be payable to each child on his/her turn provided he/she is still eligible for family pension when the turn come. Accordingly, divorced daughters who fulfil other conditions are eligible for family pension if a decree of divorce had been issued by the competent court during the life time of at least one of the parents.

3. Grievances were being received from various quarters that the divorce proceedings are a long drawn procedure which take many years before attaining finality. There are many cases in which the divorce proceedings of a daughter of Government employee/pensioner had been instituted in the competent court during the life of one or both Government employee/pensioner & spouse, but none of them was alive by the time the decree of divorce was granted by the competent authority.

4. The matter has been examined in this department and it has been decided that the clarification “grant family pension to a divorced daughter in such cases where the divorce proceedings had been filed tn a competent court during the life time of the employee/pensioner or his/her spouse but divorce took place after their death-provided the claimant fulfils all other conditions for grant of family pension. In such cases, the family pension will commence from the date of divorce” given by Government of India. Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions’, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare vide 0M No.1/13/09- P&PW (E) dated 19.07.2017 would also apply mutatis mutandis to divorced daughters of Armed Force personnel.

5. This issues with the concurrence ofthe Finance Division of this Ministry vide their ID No.10(09)/2015/Fin/Pen dated 17.10.2017.

6. Hindi version will follow.

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(Manoj Sinha)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Authority: http://www.desw.gov.in/

Require consultants for Judicial Committee on One Rank One Pension

Require consultants for Judicial Committee on One Rank One Pension

Consultant on contract basis for a period of six months or till the tenure of the Judicial Committee – DESW Order

Engagement of retired personnel in Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence

File No.12(39)/2015/D(P/P)

Ministry of Defence

Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

D(Pension/Policy)

Room No. 220A, ‘B’ Wing Sena Bhawan

New Delhi, dated 18th July, 2016

CIRCULAR

It is proposed to engage retired personnel at the level of Deputy Secretary(l), Section Officer(l) Assistant Section Officer[2). Private Secretary(l), Principle Private Secretary(l), Personal Assistant (1) and Multi Tasking Staff(6) as consultant on contract basis for a period of six months or till the tenure of the Judicial Committee which ever is earlier, for attachment with Judicial Committee on One Rank One Pension purely on temporary basis, as per guidelines for appointment of consultants issued vide Ministry of Defence I.D. Notc No. A-19020/2/12-GP-l dated 12-09-2012, amended from time to time. Officers retired from Ministry of Defence and having experience in Defence pensionary matters will be given preference.

2. Personnel engaged as consultants will he paid monthly remuneration of Rs 30,000/- in case of officers retired in the Grade pay or Rs 7600/-, Rs 25,000/- in case of officers retired in the Grade pay of Rs. 6600/-, Rs. 22,500/- in the case of officers retired in the Grade pay of Rs. 5400/-, Rs. 20,000/- in the case officers retired in the Grade pay of Rs. 4800/-, Rs. 17,500/- in the case of officers retired in the Grade pay of Rs. 4600/- and Rs 10,000/- in the case of person retired as Multi Tasking Staff.

3. Personnel who have retired at the level of DS, SO, ASO, PS/PPS and MTS having age not more than 65 years may furnish their application the Under Secretary, D(Pension/Policy), Room No. 220 A, “B’ Wing, Sena Bhawan, New Delhi or e-mail at us-pen-pol@desw.gov.in by 25th July 2016. Application received after due date will not be entertained.

Encl: Application Form

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(Manoj Sinha)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Telerax NO. 011 2301 2973

Website of MoD/DESW

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Revision of enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension in respect of Pre-2006 Armed Force Pensioners

Revision of enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension in respect of Pre-2006 Armed Force Pensioners

No.1(14)/2012-D(Pen-Pol)
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi, Dated 14 June 2016

To
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

Sub:- Revision of enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension in respect of Pre- 2006 Armed Force Pensioners.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s letter No. dated 11.11.2008, issued for implementation of Government decisions on the recommendation of 6th CPC for revision of pension/family pension in respect of pre-2006 Armed Force Pensioners/family Pensioners.

2. As per provision contained in Para-3 of this Ministry letter No. 2(1)/2012/D(Pen/Policy) dated 16.1.2013. the revised consolidated enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension 01.01.2006 in respect of Pre-2006 Armed Forces Family Pensioners shall not be less than 50% of the minimum of the pay in the pay-band plus the grade pay including Military Service Pay corresponding to the pre-revised scale from which the pensioner had retired field.

3. Now, arter issue of GOI, MOD letter No.1(04)/2015(II)-D(Pen/Pol) dated 03.09.2015 on the basis of GOI, Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensioners, Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare 0M No. dated 30.7.2015, it has been decided that the minimum guaranteed enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension of all Pre-2006 pensioners may be revised w.e.f.01.01.2006 on the basis of the minimum of fitment table for the rank in the revised Pay Band as indicated under fitment tables annexed with SAI 1/S/2008, SAI 2/S/2008 & SAI 4/S/2008 as amended and equivalent instructions for Navy and Air Force. The revised consolidated enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension w.e.f. 01.01.2006 in respect of Pre-2006 Armed Force Family Pensioners shall not be less than 50% of the minimum of the fitment table for the rank in the revised Pay Band. In case where full revised pension is otherwise not authorized to a retired employee in terms of 6th CPC order, the revised enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension shall be restricted to that amount. The amount of revised enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension in no case shall be less than thirty percent ot the minimum of fitment table for the Rank or thirty percent of the minimum of fitment table in the case of HAG and above.

4. However, in respect of consolidated enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension calculated as per Para 4.1 of this Ministry’s letter No. 17(4)/2008(1)/D(Pen/Policy) dated 11.11.2008 is higher than the Family Pension calculated in the manner indicated above, the same shall be continued.

5. This order will take effect from 01.01.2006 and arrears, if any: shall be payable from 01.01.2006 to 23.09.2012 or till effective period of enhanced rate of Ordinary Family Pension admissible. whichever is earlier.

6. All other terms and conditions shall remain unchanged.

7. Pension Regulations Of all the three services will be amended in due course.

8. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their ID No.PC.2 to dated 02.06.2016.

9. Hindi version will follow.

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(Manoj Sinha)
Under Secretary to the Govt of India

Authority: www.desw.gov.in

One Rank One Pension Implementation – DESW issued orders on 3.2.2016

One Rank One Pension Implementation – DESW issued orders on 3.2.2016

Ministry of Defence letter No.12(1)/2014/D(Pen/Pol)-Part-II dated 03.02.2016

 on One Rank One Pension (OROP) to the Defence Forces Personnel.

No.12(1)/2014/D(Pen/Policy)-Part-II

Government of India

Ministry of Defence

Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi, Dated: 03 February, 2016

To
The Chief of Army Staff
The Chief of Navy Staff
The Chief of Air Staff

Subject: One Rank One Pension to the Defence Forces personnel.

Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer this Ministry’s letter No 12(1)/2014/D(Pen/Policy)-Part-II dated 7th November, 2015 notifying One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for Defence Forces personnel. Salient features of the scheme have been mentioned at Para 3 & 4 of above said letter with the provision that the benefit of the scheme shall be implemented from 1.7.2014 to all pre-1.7.2014 pensioners. Para 6 of the letter provides that detailed instructions relating to implementation of OROP along with tables indicating revised pension for each rank and each category, shall be issued separately for updation of pension and payment of arrears by Pension Disbursing Agencies concerned.

2. The undersigned is directed to say that in order to quicken the process of revision of pension/family pension, total 101 pension tables indicating rates of pension/family pension under OROP scheme notified vide this Ministry’s order dated 7th Nov, 2015, are appended to this order. The appended tables indicate revised rates of Retiring/Service/ Special/ Disability/ Invalid/ Liberalized disability/War Injury Pension including disability/war injury element and ordinary/ special/ liberalized family pension of Commissioned Officers, Honorary Commissioned Officers, JCOs/ORs and Non-Combatants (Enrolled) of Army, Navy, Air Force, Defence Security Corps & Territorial Army retired/discharged/invalided out from service/died in service or after retirement. The existing pension of all pre-1.7.2014 pensioners/family pensioners shall be enhanced with reference to applicable table for the rank (and group in case of JCOs/ORs) in which pension with reference to the actual qualifying service as shown in Column-I of the tables subject to maximum term of engagement for each rank as applicable from time to time. The rate of pension of pensioners/ family pensioners drawing pension more than the rate of revised pension/ family pension indicated in annexed tables, shall remain unchanged.

3. The undersigned is also directed to convey that full pension of PSU absorbees who had opted for 100% commutation of pension, shall also be revised under this order with reference to revised pension of the rank determined for regular category of pensioners. However, there shall be no change in restored amount of pension already notified by respective PSAs in their case.

APPLICABILITY

4. The provisions of this letter shall be applicable to all 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 1.7.2014.

4.1 The provisions of this order, however, do not apply to UK/HKSRA/KCIO pensioners, Pakistan & Burma Army pensioners, Reservist pensioners and pensioners in receipt of Ex-gratia payments.

METHODOLOGY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
5. All Pension Disbursing Agencies (PDAs) handling disbursement of pension to Defence pensioners are hereby authorized to carry out revision of Retiring/Service/ Special/Disability/Invalid/Liberalized disability/War Injury Pension including disability/war injury element and ordinary/special/liberalized family pension of all pre- 1.7.2014 pensioners drawing pension as on 1.7.2014 in terms of these orders with applicable rates of dearness relief without calling for any applications from the pensioners and without any further authorization from the Pension Sanctioning Authorities concerned.

6. Where the revised pension as on 1.7.2014 worked out in terms of these orders, happens to be less than the existing pension/ family pension as on 1.7.2014, the pension shall not be revised to the disadvantage of the pensioner.

7. Arrears on account of revision of pension from 1.7.2014 till date of its implementation shall be paid by the Pension Disbursing Agencies in four equal half yearly installments. However, all the family pensioners including those in receipt of Special/Liberalized family pension and all Gallantry award winners shall be paid arrears in one installment.

8. The initial Pension Payment Order (PPO) or its Corrigendum PPO (Corr PPO) indicates rank,group and qualifying service for which the individual has been pensioned. This information is available with Pension Disbursing Agencies as they have revised pension of all such pensioners in the recent past in terms of Government orders issued for implementation of recommendations of Sixth CPC, CSC-2009 & CSC-2012. In case, however, any information regarding qualifying service, rank, group etc., is not available with Pension Disbursing Agencies, such cases may be referred to Pension Sanctioning Authority concerned on the proforma enclosed as Annexure-A. The Pension Sanctioning Authorities concerned will provide the requisite information from the available records within 15 days of the receipt of request from the Pension Disbursing Agencies.

9. In case of any doubt relating to revision of pension in terms of this order, pension disbursing agencies may immediately take up the matter with nodal officers of respective PSAs details of which shall be notified by Pr.CDA(P) Allahabad in their implementation instructions.

10. The OROP shall be basic pension from 1.7.2014 and therefore, additional pension as applicable to the old age pensioners/ family pensioners on attaining the relevant age (80 years and above) shall also be enhanced by the PDAs from 1.7.2014 or the date from which the pensioner attains the age of 80 years or more, whichever is later.

PAYMENT OF LIFE TIME ARREARS (LTA)

11. If a pensioner to whom the benefit accrues under the provisions of this letter has died/dies before receiving the payment of arrears, the Life Time Arrears of pension (LT

A) shall be paid in the following manner: –

a) If the claimant is already in receipt of Family Pension or happens to be the person in whose favour Family Pension already stands notified and the awardees has not become ineligible for any reason, the LTA under the provisions of this letter should be paid to such a claimant by the PDA on their own.

b) If the claimant has already received LTA in the past in respect of the deceased to whom the benefit would have accrued, the LTA under the provisions of this letter should also be paid to such a claimant by the PDA on their own.

c) If the claimant is a person other than the one mentioned at 11(a) & 11(b) above, payment of LTA shall be made to the legal heir/heirs as per extant Government orders.

12. The following elements shall continue to be paid as separate elements in addition to the pension revised under these orders-

    i) Monetary allowance attached to gallantry awards viz. Param Vir Chakra, Ashok Chakra etc.
    ii) Constant Attendance Allowance, where admissible.
    iii) Dearness relief as sanctioned by the Government from time to time.

MISCELLANEOUS INSTRUCTIONS
13. No arrears on account of revision of pension/family pension shall be admissible for the period prior to 1.7.2014.

14. No commutation of pension shall be admissible on revised/additional amount of pension accruing as a result of revision of pension under these orders. However, the existing amount of pension, if any, that has been commuted will continue to be deducted from the revised pension.
15. As a result of these orders, there will be no change in the amount of gratuity already determined and paid with reference to the rules in force at the time of discharge/invalidment/ death.
16. Any overpayment of pension coming to the notice or under process of recovery shall be adjusted in full by the Pension Disbursing Agencies against arrears becoming due on revision of pension on the basis of these orders.

METHODOLOGY FOR REPORTING

17. An intimation regarding disbursement of revised pension shall be furnished by the Pension Disbursing Agencies to the Office of the Pr. CDA(P) Allahabad in the format prescribed as Annexure¬B to this letter in the following month in which revision takes place. PDAs shall also ensure that an intimation regarding revision of pension is invariably conveyed to the pensioners concerned for their information irrespective of the fact the same is beneficial to them or not. The Public Sector Banks who are disbursing defence pension through Central Pension Processing Centres (CPPC), the progress report shall be furnished by the CPPC of the bank directly to the office of the PCDA (Pensions) Allahabad through electronic scrolls.

18. All other terms and conditions which are not affected by this order shall remain unchanged.
19. This issues with concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry vide their ID No PC. 1 to 10(11)/2012/FIN/PEN dated 2.2.2016 .

(Manoj Sinha)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Authority: www.desw.gov.in

D(Pen-Policy)-DESW-OROP-03-02-2016 

Notification on appointment of Judicial Commitee on OROP – DESW Orders issued on 14.12.2015

Notification on appointment of Judicial Commitee on OROP – DESW Orders issued on 14.12.2015

Finally the Central Government issued orders on appointment of a one man judicial committee headed by Justice L.Narasimha Reddy, retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court. The copy of the order is given below for your ready reference…

No.12(01)/2014-D(pen/Pol)-Part-II
Ministry of Defence
(Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, 14th December, 2015

Whereas the Central Government has decided to implement One Rank One Pension (OROP) for the Ex-Servicement for payment of uniform pension to the armed forces personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service, regardless of their date of retirement, which implies that briding the gap between the rate of pension of current and past pensioners at periodic intervals.

Whereas it is necessary to implement the same in an equitable manner keeping in view the existing pension structure, the conditions of service, the reasons for varying pensions in case of service personnel of the same rank with same length of qualifying service retiring at different points of time as well as the principle of OROP decided by the Government vide Govt. of India letter No.12(1)/2014/D(Pen/Pol)/Par-II dated 7.11.2015.

Now, therefore, the Central Government hereby appoints a Judicial Committee headed by Justice L.Narasimha Reddy, retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court.

2. The Terms of Reference for the Committee shall be;

To examine and make recommendations on references received from the Central Government on the following matters:

i. Measures for the removal of anomalies that may arise in implementation of the OROP letter No.12(1)/2014/D(Pen/Pol)/Par-II dated 7.11.2015.
ii. Measures for the removal of anomalies that may arise out of inter-service issues of the three forces due to implementation of OROP order ibid.
iii. Implications on service matters.
iv. Any other matter referred by the Central Government on implementation of the OROP or related issues.

In making its recommendations, the Committee shall take into account the financial impact of its recommendations.

3. The Committee shall make its recommendations within six months of the date of its constitution. It may, if necessary, make interim reports on any of the matters mentioned in Paragraph 2 above.

4. The committee will devise its own procedure and may call for such information and take such evidence, as may be considered necessary. Ministries and Departments of Government of India shall furnish such information and documents and other assistance, as may be required by the committee.

5. The committee will have its Headquarters in Delhi. All administrative support will be provided by Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence.

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(K.Damayanthi)
Joint Secretary to the Govt. of India

Authority: http://www.desw.gov.in/

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DESW Orders - Waiving recovery of excess amount of element of Non-Practising Allowance (N PA) paid to pre-1996 retired Armed Forces Doctors.

DESW Orders - Waiving recovery of excess amount of element of Non-Practising Allowance (N PA) paid to pre-1996 retired Armed Forces Doctors.

F.No.7(4)2008/D(Pension/Legal)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi, the 18th December, 2013

To,
The Chief of Army Staff,
The Chief of Naval Staff,
The Chief of Air Staff

Subject: - Waiving recovery of excess amount of element of Non-Practising Allowance (NPA) paid to pre-1996 retired Armed Forces Doctors.

Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry's ID No. 113A/D(Pen/Legal) dated 05.12.2008 regarding recovery of excess amount of NPA paid to pre-1996 retired Armed Forces Doctors.

2. On receipt of various representations from Retired Armed Forces Doctors, individually and through Associations, the Government reconsidered the matter on humanitarian grounds. After careful examination of the matter, the Government has now decided to waive recovery of excess amount of element of NPA paid to pre-1996 retired Armed Forces Doctors for the period from 11.09.2001 to 31.03.2008.

3. The amount of excess amount of the element of NPA recovered so far is not to be refunded.

4. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Defence (Fin/Pen) vide their U.O. 3501/FIP dated 22.11.2013.

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(R.K. Verma)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

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Permission for treatment / investigations in respect of ECHS beneficiaries availing treatment for Diabetes, hypertension & other Cardiac diseases, Dialysis and Cancer.

No.22A (55)/2013/US(WE)/D(Res)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
Sena Bhavan, New Delhi

Dated 5th July, 2013

To
The Chief of army Staff
The Chief of Naval Staff
The chief of air Staff

Subject : Permission for treatment / investigations in respect of ECHS beneficiaries availing treatment for Diabetes, hypertension & other Cardiac diseases, Dialysis and Cancer.
Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer to the subject mentioned above and to state that at present the ECHS beneficiaries undergoing treatment for Diabetes, Hypertension & other Cardiac Diseases, Dialysis and Cancer require repeated investigations/treatment procedures over a period of time and as per the existing guidelines they are required to procure permission (referrals letter) every time to get the prescribed treatment/investigations done at ECHS empanelled hospitals/diagnostic centres.

2. With a view to alleviate the inconvenience to ECHS beneficiaries in obtaining the requisite permissions (referral) every time, this Ministry has decided to permit issue of permission (referral) letters by ECHS polyclinics with a validity of six months from the date of issue of the original prescription for undergoing the prescribed investigation/treatment procedures to be conducted at the prescribed intervals over a period of six months as advised by a ECHS/Service/Govt. specialist. The same permission (referral) letter shall be valid for undergoing the prescribed treatment procedures/investigations on multiple times during the six months, at intervals as advised by the ECHS/Service/Govt. Specialist.

3. This issues with concurrence of MoD(Finance) vide their U.O. No.1782/F/Pen dated 5-7-2013.

Yours faithfully,
(HK Mallick)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

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DESW Orders : Permission for treatment/investigations in respect of ECHS beneficiaries availing treatment for Diabetes, hypertension & other Cardiac diseases, Dialysis and Cancer.

DESW Orders : Permission for treatment/investigations in respect of ECHS beneficiaries availing treatment for Diabetes, hypertension & other Cardiac diseases, Dialysis and Cancer.

No. 22A (55/2013/US(WE)/D(Res)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

Sena Bhavan, New Delhi
Dated 5th July, 2013

To
The Chief of army Staff
The Chief of Naval Staff
The chief of air Staff

Subject: Permission for treatment/investigations in respect of ECHS beneficiaries availing treatment for Diabetes, hypertension & other Cardiac diseases, Dialysis and Cancer.

Sir,

The undersigned is directed to refer to the subject mentioned above and to state that at present the ECHS beneficiaries undergoing treatment for Diabetes, Hypertension & other Cardiac Diseases, Dialysis and Cancer require repeated investigations/treatment procedures over a period of time and as per the existing guidelines they are required to procure permission (referrals letter) every time to get the prescribed treatment/investigations done at ECHS empanelled hospitals/diagnostic centres.

2. With a view to alleviate the inconvenience to ECHS beneficiaries in obtaining the requisite permissions (referral) every time, this Ministry has decided to permit issue of permission (referral) letters by ECHS polyclinics with a validity of six months from the date of issue of the original prescription for undergoing the prescribed investigation/treatment procedures to be conducted at the prescribed intervals over a period of six months as advised by a ECHS/Service/Govt. specialist. The same permission (referral) letter shall be valid for undergoing the prescribed treatment procedures/investigations on multiple times during the six months, at intervals as advised by the ECHS/Service/Govt. Specialist.

3. This issues with concurrence of MoD(Finance) vide their U.O. No.1782/F/Pcn dated 5-7-2013.

Yours faithfully,
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(HK Mallick)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

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