This was after the veteran did not get help from I-T principal commissioner for refunding taxes related to his disability pension between the assessment years 2006-2007 & 2018-2019.
Delhi HC upheld Armed Forces Tribunal's rulings, finding no legal basis to interfere with its decisions in favour of veterans suffering from service-related medical conditions.
With the Union Budget coming up, there are a host of measures India could take to improve its pension system. The first one is clarifying the difference between NPS and UPS.
Lt Gen Nilakantan says revised Entitlement Rules & Guide to Medical Officers for pensions had been revised to rationalise disability classification, quantification & granting of disability.
A detour from earlier stand of minimising litigations against veterans, govt move comes month it tweaked rules for granting of disability pensions to military personnel, causing furore.
Change in name to Impairment Relief doesn't affect 'true nature of entitlement or quantum of emoluments', says CDS. Concerns of ex-servicemen were addressed by a panel, he adds.
All-India Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association, in statement addressed to defence ministry, says new entitlement rules 'turn medical science on its head and beat logic to death'.
Ex-servicemen association accuses defence ministry of being regressive, negative, & anti-soldier for coming out with 'impairment relief', which is likely to be taxable.
Officer trainees disabled during training are given monthly 'ex gratia' of Rs 9,000 & disability award of Rs 16,200 for 100% disability, both lower than minimum defence pension of Rs 18,000.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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