Book on military pensions released

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 3

A book dealing with legal issues pertaining retirement benefits of armed forces personnel, authored by a Chandigarh-based lawyer, was released online on Saturday.

Titled ‘Military Pensions: Commentary, Case Law & Provisions’ and authored by Major Navdeep Singh, the book contains a variety of unique provisions dealing with pensions in the defence services, along with relevant rules, from the year 1940 till the latestones promulgated in 2020.

It also contains important decisions of the Supreme Court, the High Courts and Armed Forces Tribunal on different facets dealing with pension. The book includes detailed chapters on disability and operational benefits with various provisions governing the samein India and abroad.

Other types of pension such as service pension, invalid pension, special pension, reservist pension are also covered along with concepts and policies governing recovery from pension and One Rank One Pension (OROP).

The author was a member of a high-level committee of experts constituted by the Defence Minister for reducing litigation initiated by the Ministry of Defence in service and pension related matters and to strengthen the system of redressal of grievances. Hewas a part of the historic “Yale Draft” which was attended by judges, jurists and representatives of the United Nations to improve upon the ‘UN Draft Principles Governing the Administration of Justice through Military Tribunals’ at Yale University.