Pune: PCDAO And Senior Army Officers Discuss Issues Related To Pay, Allowances

Pune, 25th June 2021: In continuation of the earlier meeting held between the GOC-in-C-Southern Command Lt Gen JS Nain and PCDA (O) Pune Dr Rajeev Chavan, a review feedback meeting was held on Thursday.

Maj Gen PS Shekhawat, MG IC Adm, Southern Command and Maj Gen Sandeep Bhargava, MG IC Arty, Southern Command and PCDA (O) Dr Rajeev Chavan, DCDA Lehana Singh, and ACDA T Satish Kumar held a marathon meeting on all the issues relating and pertaining to the Indian Army in general and HQ Southern Command Pune in particular.

They discussed pay and allowances, pensionary benefits (differently-abled officers and war widows), DSOF Fund and Army Officers Grievances. Certain specific issues viz. the payment of ration money allowance CEA etc were discussed. Training allowance and its critical modalities, speeding up of online publication of Part-II Orders, settlement of pay anomalies of 5th, 6th & 7th Pay Commission, Covid vaccination of all Officers and Staff of PCDA (O) and their families were in particularly deliberated threadbare in detail.

Further, issues having an all India impact and affecting all Army Officers like imparting Online Training sessions to Army Officers via webinar to enable them to better understand and claim their entitlements correctly and restrengthening and reorganizing of the existing Coordination Cell, augmenting the infrastructural support to the Office premises of PCDA (O) Pune were also brought to fore and discussed during the meeting.

PCDA (O) Dr Rajeev Chavan requested the senior Army officers to give priority to the online publication of Part-II Orders and be a role model Command in the Indian Army. If this digital model succeeds in Southern Command which is by far the largest Command in the Indian Army having a large geographical area under its jurisdiction, then this can be adopted by other five operational commands and a Training Command also for successful execution and implementation.

“This will reduce the avoidable grievances of Army Officer’s who are guarding our Frontiers and help in boosting the morale of the Troops in such turbulent Covid-19 tough times. This will also help in augmenting the Digital India Project and bring in probity, transparency, accuracy and speed in delivery of services to the Indian Army officers by the office of the PCDA (O) Pune in a long run”, Dr Chavan said.