<p>Fighting under the banner of Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM), the former soldiers will return their medals on September 13.<br /><br />There are nearly 20 lakh ex-servicemen in the country and a chunk of them are demanding that under the OROP norm, personnel retiring from a same rank after having served for equal number of years should get same pension irrespective of the date and time of retirement.<br /><br />Their protest grew louder after the implementation of sixth pay commission report for central government employees as the anomaly became more pronounced.<br /><br />"We will deposit our medals with the President on September 13 and continue to demand for the implementation of the OROP in totality," IESM Chairman Lieutenant General Raj Kadyan (retd) said.<br /><br />"Till now, we have deposited 15,000 medals with the President in three instalments and will continue to do so in future also," he said.<br /><br />The ex-servicemen claim that the government has created an impression that the OROP demand has been accepted but some recent steps in this regard have just helped in equating pre-1997 and post-1997 pensioners and the difference in pensions still exists.</p>
<p>Fighting under the banner of Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM), the former soldiers will return their medals on September 13.<br /><br />There are nearly 20 lakh ex-servicemen in the country and a chunk of them are demanding that under the OROP norm, personnel retiring from a same rank after having served for equal number of years should get same pension irrespective of the date and time of retirement.<br /><br />Their protest grew louder after the implementation of sixth pay commission report for central government employees as the anomaly became more pronounced.<br /><br />"We will deposit our medals with the President on September 13 and continue to demand for the implementation of the OROP in totality," IESM Chairman Lieutenant General Raj Kadyan (retd) said.<br /><br />"Till now, we have deposited 15,000 medals with the President in three instalments and will continue to do so in future also," he said.<br /><br />The ex-servicemen claim that the government has created an impression that the OROP demand has been accepted but some recent steps in this regard have just helped in equating pre-1997 and post-1997 pensioners and the difference in pensions still exists.</p>