Former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday appealed to Union protection minister Rajnath Singh to sympathetically resolve all grievances of ex-servicemen, together with these involving pension, household pension and incapacity pension.

In a letter to the protection minister, the Bathinda MP mentioned she had obtained memorandums from the Sainik Welfare Ekta Society and the Ex-Servicemen Welfare Organisation, who had been protesting repeatedly in favor of their calls for since February 20 and appealed to the protection minister to resolve them on the earliest.

“Our ex-servicemen are our pride. The sacrifices made by them for our motherland are beyond comparison. It is our duty as a society to take care of them in the twilight of their lives”, she mentioned. Highlighting the necessity to resolve anomalies in pension, household pension and incapacity pension, she mentioned JCOs and jawans who retired early weren’t getting the total advantage of One Rank One Pension (OROP) as a result of their pension has been mounted wrongly on a median foundation, as a substitute of being mounted on the most scale.

Speaking concerning the different points, she mentioned JCOs and jawans had been additionally being given much less army service pay on account of hardship and dangers of army service vis-a-vis officers and that this anomaly needs to be eliminated, in search of decision of the calls for of ex- servicemen who’ve been protesting.