Rational Information On Expenditure On Pensions Of Defence Personnel

There have been a number of “suggestions” in the public domain on how the financial burden on the Nation could be reduced in the matter of pensions paid to ex-servicemen.

Sometimes, such suggestions can be rational and at others these need to be reviewed by opinion-makers, as I had pointed out recently. Readers can access and view the article in TOI by clicking on the link provided in the embedded tweet:

(Continued) Views on defence pensions fail rationality test if they don’t include the reality that savings in pensions, if any, as per measures proposed in such opinion pieces, would come into effect only when current inductees reach retirement stage, decades later. https://t.co/sfvufPh2KX

— Ashwani Sarda (@AshwaniSarda) May 1, 2022

In order to arrive at rational trends and analysis on expenditure on pensions of ESM, data must be authentic and specific. It may not hurt to, first of all, obtain data in this format