D.A.D

Office of the Pr. Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions) is one of the offices of the Defence Accounts Department under the Ministry of Defence, with the office of the Controller General of Defence Accounts, New Delhi as it's Head Quarters. 

Office of the Pr. Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions) has a long and chequered background with a glorious past. Before 1-4-1927, the grant and audit of pension payments was the responsibility of respective pension sections of various Controllers of Military Accounts. From 1-4-1927, the pension work relating to Northern and Eastern Commands was centralised in the office of the Controller of Military Pension Accounts, Northern and Eastern Commands at Lahore. An office similar to the one at Lahore was also formed at Mhow a little later for dealing with all pension claims of Southern and Western Commands. With a view of securing uniformity of procedures. with regard to sanction and audit to pension, both the Central Pension Offices at Lahore and Mhow were subsequently amalgamated and located at Lahore only. 

Controller of Navy Accounts, Bombay, Controller of Air force Accounts, Ambala and Controller of Army Factory Accounts, Calcutta were retained as separate Pension Sanctioning Authority with regard to their own establishment and also the establishment employed directly under their Audit Control. 

The work relating to the grant and audit of pension of the personnel of Royal Indian Navy who were governed by Civil Service Regulations, was transferred to the Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore w.e.f 1-11-1938. Similarly, the pension work relating to personnel of Military Accounts Department, serving in the office of Controller of Accounts, Air force, Dehradun was also transferred subsequently.

Due to the partition of the country on 15.8.1947, the office of the Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was also bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to the office of the Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Allahabad in September 1947. The office commenced full-fledged functioning w.e.f 21.10.1947 under the administrative jurisdiction of the CGDA, New Delhi . The office was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad w.e.f. 8.9.1951. 

The pension work relating to the establishment of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and also the Defence civilians employed in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P) Allahabad w.e.f. 17.1.52. Similarly, the pension work relating to the civilian personnel of Air force was also transferred in 1954.

The pension work relating to personnel of all the three wings of the armed forces and also the civilian employees serving in Defence establishments, was centralised at one place viz. Allahabad. This had been to secure uniformity in the application of rules and procedures regarding grant and audit of pension. 

With a view to achieving promptness in settlement of pensionary entitlements of Naval and Air force personnel the work relating to grant of their pension was transferred to CDA (Navy), Mumbai and C.D.A. (Air force), New Delhi respectively w.e.f.1.11.85. 

After undergoing a series of organisational changes, this office has been upgraded as the office of the Chief controller of Defence Accounts (pensions) w.e.f. 19.12.1988 and subsequently re-designated as the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions), Allahabad w.e.f. 24.09.1999.

Ahmednagar

Ahmednagar (Marathi: अहमदनगर, Urdu: احمد نگر) is a city of Ahmednagar District in the state of Maharashtra, India, on the west bank of the Sina river, about 120 km northeast of Pune and 120 km from Aurangabad. Ahmednagar is the largest district in the Maharashtra state. Sugar, milk and bank co-operatives thrive here. Ahmednagar is home to 19 sugar factories and is also the birthplace of the cooperative movement. Due to scarce rainfall, Ahmednagar often suffers from drought. Though citizens learn multilingual (e.g. English, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu) education in schools, Marathi is the primary language for daily-life communication. Hindi is also widely understood and spoken, though of the Dakhani (or Hyderabadi Urdu) dialect, with a lot of grammar and loan words from Marathi. Ahmednagar has recently published a plan of developing the city by year 2031.

he town was founded in 1494 by Ahmad Nizam Shah on the site of a more ancient city, Bhingar. With the breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate, Ahmad established a new sultanate in Ahmednagar, also known as Nizam Shahi dynasty. It was one of the Deccan sultanates, which lasted until its conquest by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1636. Aurangzeb, the last great Mughal emperor, who spent the latter years of his reign, 1681–1707, in the Deccan, died at Khuldabad near Aurangabad in 1707, and a small monument marks the site.

In 1759 the Peshwa of the Marathas obtained possession of the place and in 1790 it was ceded by the Peshwa to the Maratha chief Daulat Rao Sindhia. Ahmednagar was invaded by a British force under General Wellesley and captured. It was afterwards restored to the Marathas, but again came into the possession of the British in 1817, according to the terms of the Treaty of Poona.

Numerous Mughal-era buildings dot the environs. Ahmednagar Fort, once considered the second most unimpregnable fort in India, was used by the British to house Jawaharlal Nehru (the first prime minister of India) and other Indian Nationalists before Indian independence. A few rooms there have been converted to a museum. During his confinement by the British at Ahmednagar Fort, Nehru wrote the famous book The Discovery of India.

Ahmednagar is home to the Indian Armoured Corps Centre & School (ACC&S), the Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre (MIRC), the Vehicle Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) and the Controllerate of Quality Assurance Vehicles (CQAV). Training and recruitment for the Indian Army Armoured Corps takes place at the ACC&S. Formerly, the city was the Indian base of the British Army's Royal Tank Corps / Indian Armoured Corps, amongst other units. Currently the town houses the second-largest display of military tanks in the world. The exhibit is open to the public.