Jango
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My relative is a Lt and about to become a Capt, with now atleast more then 3 years service, his basic pay is between 14-15K and without hard area allowances goes to 22-24K and with hard area something close to 32-33K. Army officers when join armed forces apply for homes and on monthly basis an amount starts deducted from their salaries & its deducted through out their service and after retirement they get a house and the left over amount of the house is to be paid to get possession. And as for the plots they get, they also have to apply for it to become members of DHA or else they are not eligible to get any plot and they have to pay the development charges for the plot. And bear in mind that the majority members of DHA are civilians and they also get the plots based on its development charges and once the specified area is developed after utilizing the money submitted by the members of the housing society, the market power takes over. So civilians and army officers pay nearly the same prices of development charges, may be just a 5% or 10% discount is given to armed forces personnel, and this happens from the DHA's money which they get from their members. Nothing is taken from the defence budget.
And rest of the perks and nearly same as majority of other armed forces give and less perks while considered to some.
The total perks, housing, location of house, education of children, MI Room, CMH, transporting, the local CSD, everything make it good job to have IMO.
BTW, wasn't there a pay-raise some time back? 50,000 for Lt Col.
And if one is engineer especially a doctor in the army(AMC), that has other perks in it.