ONE RANK ONE PENSION :

The real grouse !

The retired service personnel have had a grouse which has been accentuated by the manner in which the other sections of the Central government employees have been dealt with. 

Jawans retire at the age of 48 and officers from 54 onwards. 

Civil servants retire at the age of 60 and 62. 

Over the years civil servants have expanded their power and pelf through direct and indirect means.

An uncomfortably large number of Central government employees make money through bribes and favours, and those who are relatively honest manage to use the network of regulatory and supervisory bodies that virtually guarantees a job for all senior retired government officers needing one. 

The military, by and large, is clean on this count and the soldier depends on his pension like no other in the government.