AMN
The government has said that it has significantly increased the disability pension for majority of the armed forces personnel as per the 7th Pay Commission recommendations. It has also denied media reports which claimed the disability pension for armed forces has been reduced. Government sources said, media reports have tried to create an impression, by selective misquoting, that the disability pensions have been slashed.
The truth is that the disability pension for non-battle cases have increased for 90 percent of the personnel. It said, the increase in disability pension ranges from around 14 per cent to 30 per cent among the personnel below Officer Rank or Junior commissioned officers.
Criticizing the media reports that pensions of army personnel who participated in the surgical strike get cut drastically, if they got severely injured during the surgical strike, government said, the fact is that the disability pensions for war injury cases for personnel who have been invalidated have not been touched.