"A Veteran is Someone who at one point in His Life, Wrote a blank cheque payable to 'His Nation' for an amount 'UPTO AND INCLUDING HIS LIFE'. His Oath of Enlistment has No Expiry Date."- Courtesy Vayu Samvedna .
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Income Tax Slab for Fy 24-25 to refer before Tax filing.
Before filing tax for FY 24-25, Readers are requested to refer this slab to have more understanding.
Income Tax Slabs for FY 2024.pdfOne Rank One Pension w.e.f july 2024. Download the document tables.
Click here to download the official document having OROP tables w.e.f july 2024
44th Anniversary of AFA Tamil Nadu Branch on 3rd November 2024
Understanding SPARSH
The article from THE ESM CORNER website is linked here for the readers to understand SPARSH and its various features that enable effective pension mangement for Defence Personnel
Employment opportunities for those cadets who are invalidated from their training on medical grounds
Resettlement_scheme_DGR_0.pdfScholarship by AFA TN Branch
DOC-20230613-WA0101List of Sainik Rest Houses
list-sainik-rest-houses.pdfSmall Savings Interest rates for Apr- Jun 2023
Small Savings interest rates for Jan- Mar 2023
Grant of pro-rata pensionary benefits to the JCO/ORs
147 pro rata 04.11.2022_0.pdfRe-imbursement of cost of Not Available (NA) medicines and consumables under ECHS.
Click here to read this notification
One Rank One Pension- Awareness Booklet by MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING, GOI.
Dis-empanelment of Seven ECHS empanelled Hospitals at Amritsar and Tarn Taran, Punjab involved in fraudulent activities - reg. Dated 18.06.2021.
dis empanelment of hospitals..pdfSovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2021-22
Government of India, in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, has decided to issue Sovereign Gold Bonds. The Sovereign Gold Bonds will be issued in six tranches from May 2021 to Sep 2021 as per the calendar specified below
Series-I bond will open for subscription on 17 may 2021. The issue price for the scheme has been fixed at ₹4,777 per gram. The issue will close on May 21 and the bonds will be issued on May 25.
the second tranche is (May 24-May28);
the third tranche (May 31-June 4);
the fourth tranche (July 12-July 16);
the fifth tranche ( August 9-August 13), and
the sixth tranche ( August 30-September 3).
( If you want to buy Gold coin for your future use..say after 5 to 8 years..then instead of buying coins from jewellers.You can opt for this Sovereign Gold bonds.
The main advantage of these bonds are :
You can get units equivalent to 999 purity gold rate on purchase.You will get 2.5% simple interest also for 8 years for the amount you invested in the bond.
The lock in period is 8 years. After that you will be credited 999 Purity Gold rate of that time for the units you bought.
No headache of preserving the gold coins in your lockers if you buy them.This is a good alternative for gold coins.Moreover you save GST of 3% which you pay for Gold coin.
Bank loans can also be taken by keeping this Bond as collateral subjected to bank norms.
Additionally,These bonds can be kept in demat form and tradable in stock markets also.
It is easy to subscribe for these bonds by net banking facility and Rs 50/ discount per gram( unit) is given for electronic mode of purchase.
You can contact your bank for further details and fill physical form also for bond purchase.
when you give your E mail id, the bonds will be sent to your mail id by RBI and it will be available in your net banking site also.
For ex: if i buy 1 unit of Gold bond on the day of subscription..say the rate is 5000/ per gram of 999 purity gold on that day, then a bond will be sent to me for 1 unit of 999 purity gold. Every 6 months i will be credited a simple interest of 62.5/ for my 1 unit.
After 8 years, if the 999 purity Gold rate of that time is say 7000/gm, then I will get 7000/ credited into my account for 1 unit of bond. If price of Gold is less say 4000/gm, then, only that 4000/ per unit will be credited. The idea is the prevailing rate of that time will be given for our bond units...
Since Gold rate is fluctuating these days..it is advisable to buy the units in parts in may,jun,july,aug..and in future so that you get average rate altogether on your total bond holdings.)
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Revision of pension of pre - 2016 retired Medical Officers of Army Corps/Army Dental Corps/Remount and Veterinary Corps - reg.
Kindly refer this MOD letter on this Subject...Click here to know more..
Revision of Casuality Pensionary awards in respect of pre -1996 and pre - 2006 Medical Officers of Armed Forces :
Kindly refer this MOD letter on this Subject....Click to know more..
MoD conducts online quiz competition on “1971 Bangladesh Liberation War”:
As part of forthcoming Republic Day Celebration 2021 and to commemorate 50 Years of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, an online quiz competition is being conducted by Ministry of Defence in coordination with MyGov during 11 January to 22 January 2021. The quiz competition is meant to create patriotic feeling among the people by making them aware of various facets of the victory achieved and sacrifices made in the 1971 war.
There will be ten cash prizes i.e First, Second and Third Prize besides Seven consolation prizes. Details are as under:
1st PrizeRs. 25,000/
2nd Prize Rs 15,000/
3rd Prize Rs. 10,000/.
Consolation Prizes (Seven)Rs 5,000/- each
Indian Citizens aged 14 years and above can participate in the quiz.
The quiz is available on Mygov portal on the following link :
INDIA PLANS DEPLOYMENT OF NUCLEAR-CAPABLE AGNI-V THIS YEAR:
Riding high on the success of 30 missions in last three months, India plans to deploy its longest range most potent nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V this year. With the 5,000-plus km range missile in its arsenal, India is the eighth nation in the world to have ICBM capabilities.
“The induction process of the missile, which is under serial production, has already started. It would be officially deployed with the final induction trial in next three to four months. The deployment will pave the way for development of more long range missiles, which are on the drawing board,” the source told The Express.
One time sanction by MOD for medicine purchase and claim reimbursement for ECHS Beneficieries.
One time sacntion for medicine purchase during COVID 19 SITUATION..pdfLife Certificate can be submitted till 28 February 2021.
Kindly refer the letter below which states that Central Govt pensioners can submit their life certificate till 28 feb 2021 due to the ongoing COVID . This letter is from MOD,Dept.of EX-Servicemen Welfare.
ECHS Cards, Validity and Services -Dec 2020:
A letter from Central Organisation ECHS dt 3 dec 2020 explains about 64KB, 32KB,16 KB cards , their validity ,Temporary slips and Services that can be availed from These cards. To know more Click here
Details of Sainik Rest Houses located in various states:
For the complete list. Click here ..
( Courtesy: Dep. Of EX-Servicemen Welfare.)
Schemes for Air Veterans and NOK from IAFBA:
DRDO Cleared to convert 6 AIR INDIA A320S into IAF AEW Jet:
Six Airbus A320 airliners operated by India’s national carrier Air India will be modified, integrated with sensors and delivered to the Indian Air Force as new airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) aircraft as part of a new plan cleared today. The Ministry of Defence today approved a Rs 10,500 crore (Rs 1.4 billion) program in which India’s Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) will integrate radars and sensor on six Airbus A320 commercial airliners from national carrier Air India’s current fleet. The six aircraft are to be sent to France, where they will be refurbished and modified to Indian Air Force/DRDO specifications.
If plans remain on track, the six aircraft will join the IAF to add AEW muscle to the pair of Embraer-DRDO AEW&C Netra jets in service and three older PHALCON AWACS jets. It is not clear if this new move, revealed in the Indian press on Wednesday, supplants earlier plans by the DRDO to deliver an Airbus A330 based AWACS system — though the two systems are significantly different in capability and scope.
RBI Directive for Veterans for Life Certificate
Every year, pensioners/ Family pensioners and Ex-Gratia pensioners are to submit Life Certificate to the Pension Paying branch in the Month of November.
Pensioners, above 80 yrs of age can submit from 01-10-2020 to 31-12-2020 and others from 01-11-2020 to 31-12-2020.
Now, due to present COVID-19 situation, to avoid personnel appearance in public/ Banks, Our Reserve Bank of India, has issued an instruction to submit the LIFE CERTIFICATE through email.
The prescribed Life Certificate Format, filled and signed may be scanned and sent through E-MAIL to the respective Bank Branches/ CPPC.
They can also submit through JEEVAN PRAMAAN system
This year, the period is extended up to 31-12-2020.
All our ESM associations and Organizations are requested to guide our pensioners in their area, suitably for utilizing this facility:
Authority: RBI- CO.HRMD.NO.2002/21-01-00/ 2020-21 dated 25-9-2020.
Indian Army Launches Indigenous Mobile Application 'SAI'.
In line with PM Modi's 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat Mission', the Indian Army on Thursday launched a secured messaging application platform named 'Secure Application for the Internet' (SAI). Speaking further about the details of 'SAI' the Ministry of Defence said that this mobile application for Android will support end-to-end secure voice, text and video calling services. This application is similar to the applications like Telegram and WhatsApp, it added.
First woman Officer of IAF passes away at 96 in B'luru
Wg.Cdr Vijayalakshmi Ramanan (left) with other officers
Wing Commander Vijayalakshmi Ramanan(retd), the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force , passed away at her daughter's house in Bengaluru late October 18 due age-related ailments. Born on February 27 1924, Vijayalakshmi joined the Madras Medical College for the MBBS course in 1943. She was the best outgoing student in 1948. and a recipient of the Balfour Memorial Medal for Medicine and prize for surgery by Madras University. She did her MD in obstetrics and gynaecology and worked in Egmore Maternity hospital in Chennai as an assistant surgeon. Vijayalakshmi was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps on August 22, 1955 and seconded to the IAF the same day, making her the first woman IAF officer. During the wars in 1962, 1969 and 1971, she had extra duties in wards, treating wounded soldiers She was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal in 1977, years after she got the Permanent Commission in 1971.
Indian Navy fired BRAHMOS Anti ship missile During Exercise.
BRAHMOS, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully fired from Indian Navy indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai,hitting a target in the Arabian Sea during an ongoing exercise.The missile hit the target successfully with pin-point accuracy .@indiatvnews
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