ON NFU FOR DEF

AN INDIVIDUAL VIEW POINT BUT WITH PERTINENT DETAILS

    by brig Pathak

This is with reference to the statements made by the chief at Pune.
The author feels that he had  spoken out of turn and doubts that he had the concurrence of the other two chiefs on this statement. To that expend he hopes that these were his personal views and not those of the three service Chiefs.
  There have been some adverse reaction and comments on the statement and some of them are reproduced here.

    The chief seems to think the status of Defence forces is higher than others supposedly he is excluding the IAS and IPS.  Let us look at the table below and check where our status is higher than the others. Status is linked to not rank or the stars on shoulders,  but unfortunately its the basic salary to which it is and including what is given as perks and allowances.

Officers Equations with Civil

Civil Grade	3rd CPC	4th CPC	Remarks
Junior Time Scale	Junior to Captain	Equal to Captain	2/ Lt, Lt and Capt clubbed by 3rd CPC
Senior Time Scale	Equal to Captain	Equal to Major
Selection Grade/ Non-Functional Selection Grade (SG/ NFSG)	Equal to Major	Senior to Major

Army Ranks (Clerical Cadre) vis-à-vis Civilian (Clerical Cadre)

Sepoy, Lance Naik, Naik and Havildar	Lower Division Clerk
Naib Subedar (Gazetted Rank)	Upper Division Clerk (With less than five years service) (Non Gazetted Post)
Subedar (Gazetted Rank)	Upper Division Clerk (With more than five years' service),and Office Supdt Grade -II (Both, Non Gazetted Posts)
Subedar Major (Gazetted Rank)	Office Superintendent Grade-I (Non Gazetted Post)

Edge in Pay and Pensions of Defence Forces over Civilian Employees Globally

Ser No	Country	Notional Edge in salary as service pay or special allowance for military service	Pension Scale with notional edge for military service
1	India	Nil	50% of pay and same is depressed by 6 to 24% in respect of Lt Col & below ranks constituting 90% of the manpower strength of the Defence Forces.

Allowances Defence and Civil Comparison

Type of Allowance	Civilian Employee	Faujis
Disabled Employees (a)  Protection of Service (b)  Pay and Allowances (c)  Pension (c)    Right to life of dignity of self and family	Govt has to retain them till 60 yrs under Disability Act Full protection under Section 47 of the Act.Will not be discharged on account of disability. Full pay and allowances admissible till the age of 60 even if unable to attend any official duty.  Can even be kept on supernumerary post and paid all pay and allowances. Entitled to full service length till superannuation and pension thereafter. Full pay and pension and complete Government protection/cover with entitled facilities Admissible to dependents	Invalided (Thrown) out of service immediately Defence Forces exempted from operation of Section 47.  Hence no protection of employment available in case of disability. Employee can be discharged on account of disability. Nil Admissible Nil Admissible  Nil.  No facilities or protection for self and dependents
Increase in Pension of highest rank employee from 1973 to 2006	108 times Highest Civilian Functionary Pension 1973  - Rs 416.50/-pm 2006  - Rs 45000/-pm	45 times Highest Def Rank Pension  1973 -  Rs 1000/-pm  2006 -  Rs 45000/-pm
Period of Service	Upto60 years of age	85% compulsorily retired between 35 -37 years age. 12-13% compulsorily  retired between 40-54 years age
Career Progression	Three Promotions at 10,20,30 years of service	Three promotion at 8, 16, 24 years of service. 85% compulsorily retired at 15-17 years' service; thereby denied 3rd career progression
Officer's Promotion opportunities	100% Joint Secy at 16-18 years' Service 100% AddlSecy  at 32 years' Service	1% Maj Gen at 32-33 years of service. 3% Lt Gen 33-35years
Non-functional Upgradtion (NFU)	•       JS Pay at approx22 yrs. •       Addl Secy Pay at 32yrs	Nil

  

    It is felt that it is totally illogical to say that  our status will get downgraded if we get NFU. Rather as the things stand our status gets downgraded if we do not get NFU. Indian society decides status based on the earning capacity of a person. Govt decides status on emoluments of a person, so if we get lower pay and then pension we loose status. We should ask chief and his staff to prove his point by examples.
 Ours being pyramidal structure, all the more reason for granting NFU to Def forces.
We know that none of the Lt Gen is affected by NFU, it is unfortunate that our highe hierarchy  still remains partially ignorant of the Civil environment.


Some of the comments on social media


करो और खूब चापलूसी । Think, it is in our DNA.

‪Govt was not fool to give out of turn promotions.
How sad Army Chief making this statement our other two Chiefs should undo it.
He was carefully chosen for his "capabilities " that are now showing.
He is sure to get rewarded for screwing armed forces from within!

If you care about your men. Got save us.

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