Let us clear the public perception, as also aid the “Decision Making”. Babus project the “Defence Pension Budget” as one figure which sounds fairly large. A major argument against OROP is that this would increase exponentially. The fact is 45% of it goes to the civilians who form just 23% of the pensioners, and 55% goes to Fauji Veterans who form 77% of the pensioners. Imbalance in the ratio is glaring because the civilians retire at 60 yrs, so OROP will NOT APPLY to them, but only to the faujis. So, by removing the anamoly in OROP, It is only the 55% of the Defence Pension Budget which would get affected by OROP to benefit the 77% of the defence pension recepients who are Veterans.