19/07
Com. G Natarajan, our General Secretary and Com. Vittoban, CHQ Treasurer along with Com. R C Malhotra, AGS met the Secretary, Telecom Shri J S Deepak IAS today and conveyed gratitude of all BSNL pensioners in India for issuance of the order on 78.2. Shri Deepak is happy that he is getting blessings from elders. GS handed over a detailed letter to the Secretary seeking his intervention to have an amicable settlement of Pension anomaly case. Secretary assured that he would look into the matter.
MEETING THE NEW DIRECTOR (Estt).
Our leaders met the new Director (Estt) Smt. Vandana Sethi and discussed some items:
1.Clarifying the points raised by some CCAs about application of the recent orders on delinking of 33 years condition for full Pension. Some CCAs have taken a strange stand that it is not applicable to BSNL pensioners despite a clarification from DoT on 3-6-2016. Central Pension Accounting Office in Ministry of Finance made it very very clear that there is no pro rata pension now and anybody having rendered ten years service is entitled to full pension.
2.Court has directed the DoT to count Extra Increment for pension. But the benefit is given only to the four pensioners of Kerala who have gone to the Court. Few hundred affected pensioners are waiting for the benefit in different circles. A general order is required in the matter.
3.Wrongful recovery of excess payment made by Department for no fault of the employee/pensioner. Supreme Court has issued clear, unambiguous order. But it is not yet endorsed by Directorate.
4.CGHS for BSNL pensioners.In Delhi the CGHS does not entertain BSNL pensioners on the plea that they are PSU pensioners. Clear order is available.But the premium is yet to be determined.
After discussion the Director told that since she is new to the post she would seriously examine these cases and take suitable action.
BON VOYAGE TO COM. GANGADHARA RAO.
19/07
Our Deputy General Secretary Com. P Gangadhara Rao is leaving tomorrow for USA along with his wife. His plan is to return by end of October and join us in the next Central Working Committee meeting to be held in RTTC complex, Rajpura, Punjab on12-13, November 2016.
Com. Gangadhara Rao is leaving with full satisfaction, after fulfilling a great task, after seeing the order in his hand. He has done a great service to BSNL pensioners all over India in a most brilliant manner.
WE WISH HIM A HAPPY STAY WITH HIS DAUGHTER IN USA. WE WISH THE FAMILY THE BEST.
19/07
When DoT issued order on 10-6-2013 granting benefit of IDA merger to serving staff there was some confusion. The benefit was granted w.e.f 1-1-2007 but actual payment was made from 10-6-2013, the date of issuance of the order, as per the agreement made by BSNL Management and Staff Unions in June 2012. Those who agreed for PROSPECTIVE EFFECT are responsible for the loss of arrears from 1-1-2007. Fate of people retired between 1-1-2007 and 9-6-2013 was not clear. As such, till this date their pension was not revised. Now it is made beyond all doubt that the fixation from 1-1-2007 to 9-6-2013 is NOTIONAL only. Some people do not accept it. And, nobody wants their acceptance or consent. Cabinet decided and DoT issued order stating it is notional only.
No doubt, it is a wrong decision. It has to be challenged; it has to be fought against. Without accepting the reality you can not challenge it.
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