New Delhi: Government of India Friday implemented One Rank One Pension (OROP) with retrospective effect from 1st July 2014.

A sum of Rs. 10795.4 crore has been disbursed to 20,60,220 defence forces pensioners/family pensioners as arrears on account of implementation of OROP.  The yearly recurring expenditure on account of OROP is about Rs.7123.38 crores and for about six years starting from 01.07.2014, the total recurring expenditure worked out to approximately Rs. 42740.28 crore.

Armed forces personnel retired upto 30.06.2014 were covered under this Order. 

Ex-Servicemen had been agitating for implementation of OROP nearly for the 45 years, but the same was not implemented before 2015.

OROP implies that uniform pension be paid to the armed forces personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service regardless of their date of retirement.  Thus, OROP implies bridging the gap between the rate of pension of current and past retirees at periodic intervals.

OROP beneficiaries also got the benefit of fixation of pension under 7th CPC while calculating the pension by multiplication factor of 2.57.

State-wise figures of amount released on account of OROP arrears as on 11.10.2019areas under.

Sl. No.Name of the State/UTNumber of OROP beneficiariesAmount released on account of OROP arrears (In Cr.)
1.ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR3802.25
2.ANDHRA PRADESH47,191259.64
3.ARUNACHAL PRADESH2,24510.42
4.ASSAM35,246164.14
5.BIHAR73,757350.96
6.CHANDIGARH7,08858.69
7.CHATTISGARH4,28925.64
8.DADRA NAGAR HAVELI80.13
9.DAMAN AND DIU160.08
10.DELHI46,626445.11
11.GOA9887.87
12.GUJRAT17,79788.79
13.HARYANA1,84,126909.28
14.HIMACHAL PRADESH94,709412.48
15.JAMMU & KASHMIR62,160293.4
16.JHARKHAND12,91562.81
17.KARNATAKA60,566380.76
18.KERALA1,37,418726.41
19.LAKSHADWEEP400.26
20.MADHYA PRADESH37,118196.2
21.MAHARASHTRA1,30,158775.47
22.MANIPUR4,01615.64
23.MEGHALAYA1,9919.71
24.MIZORAM1,6237.12
25.NAGALAND1,1766.5
26.ODISHA28,667137.15
27.PONDICHERRY1,4638.64
28.PUNJAB2,11,9151095.44
29.RAJASTHAN1,10,675511.62
30.SIKKIM7893.63
31.TAMILNADU1,16,627628.77
32.TELANGANA17,811112
33.TRIPURA1,5017.66
34.UTTAR PRADESH2,28,3261038.23
35.UTTARAKHAND1,16,553530.57
36.WEST BENGAL79,194391.3
 Total18,67,3299,638.05