CGDA Report-Number of Defence pensioners as per PCDA records

As on 01.04.2015 the Defence Accounts Department is servicing 24.61 lakhs pensioners, spread across the country.

The category wise details of Defence pensioners

Sl.No.	Category	Number of Pensioners
1.	Commissioned Officers	58,754
2.	P.B.O.R.	18,40,809
3.	Defence Civilians	5,62,088
	Total	24,61,651

The details of pensioners drawing pension from various PDAs is summarized as under:

Sl.No.	Name of PDA	Number of Pensioners	Percentage
1.	Public/Private Sector Banks	18,42,092	74.83
2.	DPDOs	4,60,336	18.70
3.	Distt.Treasuries	60,752	2.47
4.	IE Nepal	92,876	3.77
5.	Post Office	4,496	0.18
6.	PAOs	1,099	0.05
	Total	24,61,651	100

> On an average 45,000 Defence Forces personnel and Defence civilians retire every year and become part of pensioners’ strength. While working out the data‐base of pensioners as on a given date, average wastages out of the pensioners’ data base are worked out to arrive at the number of Defence pensioners on a particular date.

> The Defence pensioners are spread over the length and breadth of the country. The major pockets having concentration of Defence pensioners are states of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala among others.

> The Zone/State wise details of pensioners is enclosed in the accompanying Annexure –‘A’.

>  Further, around 4.60 lakhs pensioners drawing pension from 63 Defence Pension Disbursement offices, which are also mapped in the accompanying Annexure – ‘B’

Sl No.	Name of DPDO	No. of pensioners	Percentage	Station/State	State wise percentage
1.	DPDO, Chandigarh	5187	1.13	Chandigarh	1.13
2.	DPDO, Red Fort‐I, Delhi	5789	1.26	Delhi	3.45
3.	DPDO, Red Fort‐II Delhi	4966	1.08
4.	DPDO, BrarSquare, Delhi Cantt	5128	1.11
5.	DPDO, Ambala	9365	2.03	Haryana	18.57
6.	DPDO, Bhiwani	12159	2.64
7.	DPDO, Gurgaon	7373	1.60
8.	DPDO, Hissar	4075	0.89
9.	DPDO, Jhajjar	9448	2.05
10.	DPDO, Karnal	6995	1.52
11.	DPDO, Narnaul	8111	1.76
12.	DPDO, Rewari	12562	2.73
13.	DPDO, Rohtak	6797	1.48
14.	DPDO, Sonipat	8616	1.87
15.	DPDO, Amritsar	15790	3.43	Punjab	26.85
16.	DPDO, Ferozepur	4073	0.88
17.	DPDO, Batala	4882	1.06
18.	DPDO, Bathinda	4524	0.98
19.	DPDO, Kapurthala	4606	1.00
20.	DPDO, Dasuya	10165	2.21
21.	DPDO, Pathankot	6591	1.43
22.	DPDO, Patiala	8317	1.81
23.	DPDO, Ropar	7286	1.58
24.	DPDO, Sangrur	7478	1.62
25.	DPDO, Gurdaspur	6112	1.33
26.	DPDO, Ludhiana	11801	2.56
27.	DPDO, Hoshiarpur	9703	2.11
28.	DPDO, Jagraon	4374	0.95
29.	DPDO, Moga	5980	1.30
30.	DPDO, Jalandhar	11977	2.60
31.	DPDO, A/R Jammu	10290	2.24	J&K	9.25
32.	DPDO, S/NJammu	9742	2.12
33.	DPDO, Leh	3791	0.82
34.	DPDO, Srinagar	5612	1.22
35.	DPDO, Udhampur	7940	1.73
36.	DPDO, Rajouri	5174	1.12
37.	DPDO, Jaipur	4412	0.96	Rajasthan	2.26
38.	DPDO, Jhunjhunu	6003	1.30
39.	DPDO, Mandi	5775	1.25	H.P.	10.22
40.	DPDO, Hamirpur	10372	2.25
41.	DPDO, Shimla	5529	1.20
42.	DPDO, Una	5571	1.21
43.	DPDO, Yol	6206	1.35
44.	DPDO, Palampur	8394	1.82
45.	DPDO, Dharamshala	5230	1.14
46.	DPDO, Meerut	9509	2.07	U.P.	5.27
47.	DPDO, Kanpur	5534	1.20
48.	DPDO, Allahabad	5922	1.29
49.	DPDO, Gorakhpur	3271	0.71
50.	DPDO, Dehradun	2519	0.55	Uttrakhand	0.55
51.	DPDO, Kolkata	4268	0.93	West Bengal	0.93
52.	DPDO, Hydrabad	4438	0.96	A.P.	3.19
53.	DPDO, Secunderabad	6792	1.48
54.	DPDO, Visakhapatnam	3431	0.75
55.	DPDO, Bangluru	7265	1.58	Karnataka	1.58
56.	DPDO, Chennai	7257	1.58	Tamilnadu	4.46
57.	DPDO, Vellore	13245	2.88
58.	DPDO, Ernakulam	8295	1.80	Kerala	12.29
59.	DPDO, Kollam	10494	2.28
60.	DPDO, Kottayam	12073	2.62
61.	DPDO, Pathanamthitta	9217	2.00
62.	DPDO, Trichur	5625	1.22
63.	DPDO, Trivandrum	10910	2.37
Total	460336		100		100

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