By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: All Odisha Veteran Soldiers Association on Sunday staged one-day hunger strike against discrimination in One Rank One Pension-2.
‘There are discrimination and anomalies in One Rank One Pension-II table which was recently implemented by Central Government for veteran soldiers. The veteran soldiers and JCOs of Armed forces are discriminated while higher rank got most benefited, Association said.
As part of the nationwide strike, Odisha unit held a protest meeting and one-day hunger strike.
Patron veteran Dilip Kumar Mahapatra, President veteran Maheswar Behera, Senior VP, Veteran Pratap Chndra Rath , VP, Veteran Naransingha Satapathy, Secretary veteran Umesh Kumar Chaini, Joint secretary Sushant Kumar Mohanty were among coordinated the strike and most of them, were also present in strike.
