{"id":31981,"date":"2018-10-29T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31981"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:35:46","slug":"govt-holds-firm-on-disability-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-holds-firm-on-disability-pensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt holds firm on disability pensions\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/nirmala-firm-on-appeals-against-disability-pension\/article22451167.ece\"><strong>Govt holds firm on disability pensions<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Defence Ministry has no proposal to withdraw pending appeals against disability pensions and benefits. This was conveyed by Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman in a letter to RajyaSabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Defence Minister ManoharParrikar had attempted to reduce litigations against veterans and serving personnel and had appointed an expert committee to study the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Ms.Sitharaman said 16 of the 75 recommendations of the panel have been accepted<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Another 16 were accepted in-principle requiring follow-up action in consultation with Service Headquarters (SHQ). \u201cThe remaining 43 require further examination in consultation with the SHQ, the Department of Personnel and Training and the Finance Ministry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt holds firm on disability pensions\u00a0 Context The Defence Ministry has no proposal to withdraw pending appeals against disability pensions and benefits. This was conveyed by Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman in a letter to RajyaSabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar Background Former Defence Minister ManoharParrikar had attempted to reduce litigations against veterans and serving personnel and had appointed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-holds-firm-on-disability-pensions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt holds firm on disability pensions\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704788541},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}