CHQ NEWS ON 78.2 %IDA MERGER & PENSION ANOMALY CASE

LEADERS RETURN FROM DELHI 

04/12

Our leaders are returning today from Delhi after the successful mission.

Com. Natarajan and Com. Gopalakrishnan will be going to Bangalore first

as all trains and flights to Chennai are cancelled.

They have to join their families in distress due to the disastrous floods in Chennai city.

Going to Chennai from Bangalore is also a problem.

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OUR LEADERS MET DIRECTOR (Estt)

03/12

3-12-2015 6 PM

As reported earlier, our leaders met Mr Pracheesh Khanna, Director (Estt) of Department of Telecom and discussed in detail the case of 78.2%. Mr. Khanna informed that the Department of Expenditure of Ministry of Finance had raised number of queries on the Cabinet Note. To prepare reply to those queries, the Establishment Section wanted information from various Sections of DoT. Now, the information has been received from Sections. Establishment Section is compiling them now. The reply to DOE may be sent within a week’s time.

OUR LEADERS MET SHRI ANANTHAKUMAR AGAIN IN DELHI

PENSION ANOMALY CASE POSTPONED AGAIN

03/12

3-12-2015 2 PM

Today noon, our leaders met Shri Ananthakumar, Hon’ble Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and apprised him of their meetings with Shri Nripendra Mishra (Principal Secretary to Prime Minister) and Additional Secretary, Telecom. Shri Ananthakumar assured that he would pursue the case further.

AT 3 PM, OUR LEADERS ARE MEETING THE DIRECTOR (EST.) TO ASCERTAIN FURTHER MOVEMENT OF THE FILE IN THE CASE OF 78.2%.

PENSION ANOMALY CASE 

The Pension anomaly case came up today before Principal Bench of CAT . We expected that arguments would take place today. It did not happen. Since some of the Departments have not yet filed their counter affidavits, the Judge told that he is giving them the “last chance.The departments should submit their counter within 15 days” and then posted the Case to Third February 2016.

The delay is disgusting, no doubt. But once we are in the court we have no other choice but to follow the procedures.

One good development is that the Department of Pension did not admit the anomaly earlier; now, they admit that there is an anomaly. But they have no proper satisfactory proposal to remove it. We have to go with the court case only.