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The Defence Accounts Department (DAD) said on 15 September 2026 that it has normalised all 1,45,182 discrepant pension cases of the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy on SPARSH.
IAF accounted for 1,12,638 cases and the Navy 32,544 — 100% in both; for the Army, 3,90,336 of 3,94,779 cases (98.8%) have been normalised.
In all, 5,35,518 discrepant cases have been fixed through a mission-mode special drive.
SPARSH (System for Pension Administration – Raksha) is the Ministry of Defence's web-based system that sanctions and pays defence pensions directly into bank accounts, run by PCDA (Pensions), Prayagraj.
End-to-end digital sanction and disbursement of pensions for the Army, Navy, Air Force and defence civilians
Key: Centralised, web-based; direct bank credit without intermediaries; digital pensioner identification and a transparent pension-account view for each pensioner
SPARSH rolled out for defence civilians retiring
Extended to the Indian Air Force
Extended to the Indian Navy
Extended to the Indian Army
All IAF and Navy discrepant cases normalised; 5.35 lakh in total
Handles accounts, payments and pensions for the armed forces under the Ministry of Defence
DAD field office that centrally administers SPARSH
GS Paper II > e-Governance; GS Paper III > Defence
General Awareness > Defence schemes and institutions
System for Pension Administration (Raksha) — MoD's digital pension platform
Pension record with data errors that must be corrected on the system
Controller General of Defence Accounts, head of DAD