NEW DELHI: Eight months after the Doklam standoff, the Government has extended the ambit of an “exclusive” pension scheme to cover the armed forces personnel killed or injured while guarding the Sino-India border but did not heed to a long-standing demand of the Army to implement it with retrospective effect.
The ‘liberalised family pension’ was applicable to those security personnel deployed along the Line of Control and International Border (IB) with Pakistan.
It provides for 100 per cent of the last “reckonable” emoluments in comparison to normal family pension of 30 per cent of the last emoluments, officials said. (AGENCIES)
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