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DELEGATION TO THE MINISTER

22/07

Just before the Bihar Circle Conference on 21-7-2019, a delegation of Bihar comrades led by our GS Com. Gangadhara Rao went to the residence of Shri Ravishankar Prasad, The Honourable Minister for Communications who was in the city and submitted a memorandum on our pension revision. Just before the Bihar Circle Conference at 9 am on 21-7-19 ,         Com. P Gangadhara Rao GS lead the Delegation of BIHAR Circle to the House of Sri Ravi Shankar Prasad  at Patna. GS requested the Hon'ble MOC to settle our Pension Revision issue at the earliest after handing over a memorandum.
P Gangadhara Rao.  GS.

OCTOBER ...... NOVEMBER 

20/07

Government has taken a good decision to help the senior pensioners above the age of 80 years.

TO AVOID HARDSHIP OF THE SENIOR PENSIONERS WAITING IN THE QUEUE FOR LONG TIME TO FILE THEIR LIFE CERTIFICATES IN NOVEMBER EVERY YEAR THE MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL HAS ISSUED AN ORDER THAT SENIOR PENSIONERS ABOVE THE AGE OF 80 YEARS CAN FILE THEIR LIFE CERTIFICATE (JEEVAN PRAMAAN) IN OCTOBER ITSELF. IT WILL BE VALID TILL LAST OF DAY NOVEMBER NEXT YEAR.

OTHER PENSIONERS, BELOW THE AGE OF 80 YEARS, HAVE TO FILE LIFE CERTIFICATE IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER ITSELF AS AT PRESENT. 

Click here to see the order oct-and-nov-lc.jpg

"ONE PSU IS IMPORTANT"; MINISTER 

18/07

Today, 18-7-2019, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minsiter for Communications told in Rajya Sabha that "To ensure stability in Telecom Sector, one PSU is very important."

Well said. We await follow up action.

DIRECT PENSION PAYMENT: 

SOME TEETHING PROBLEMS

18/07

The Prime Minister himself launched SAMPANN on 29-12-2018 to ensure speedy payment of pension and quick redressal of grievances from pensioners. As part of it the Dept. of Telecom, through CCA offices, introduced the Direct Pension Payment System for the new retirees. Almost all CCA offices have started it.

CGCA:

A new post of Controller General of Communication Accounts was created in 2018. CCAs and Pr.CCAs have to report to CGCA.Awebsite –www.cgca.gov.in – was also launched. It is linked to websites of all the 28 CCAs in the country. This is also a welcome step.

SOME TEETHING TROUBLES:

Now, pension and pensionary benefits are being credited every month in the account of new pensioners from the month of March in most of the circles. Final settlement of GPF is not part of SAMPANN. However, during the last two months the BSNL failed to remit the amount and hence the final settlement of those retiring in the month of August 2019 may be affected.

MIGRATION OF EARLIER PENSIONERS:

The intention was to migrate all existing (earlier) DoT/BSNL pensioners to SAMPANN. It has not yet taken place completely. In Kerala circle 67% of pensioners draw pension through bank and 33% through post office.In other circles it is just opposite as many pensioners live in rural areas where banking facility is poor. The banks maintain data of their pension accounts. Still, in this era of digitization, many banks have not shared the data with DoT. Of late, the DoT has started the work with one bank. It may take few more months to complete the work related to all pensioners drawing pension through banks. Cases of those receiving pension through post offices will further be delayed as IndiaPost does not have full data.

DELAY IN POST OFFICES:

At many places pensioners did not get their pension from post offices on the last working days in May and June 2019. The Staff in Post offices told pensioners that “pension was not credited by the Centralized Pension Processing Centre at Mysore”. In fact, there is no such CPPC at Mysore for all Post offices in the country. The work is centralized in DAP offices, Director of Accounts, Posts in each circle. The Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) provides technical support, from their office at Mysore. In the software being used by CCAs and some banks there is a provision “not to pay before…th”. So they can credit the pension amount on any date conveniently which will be released only on the specified date. But, in the soft ware supplied by TCS to India post this provision is not available. So the staff in DAP offices (at some places only) came at 2 AM on the last working day in June 2019 and started crediting the pension. In those circles people got the pension on that day itself. In other Circles where the work was started at 9 AM they could not enter the network system as it was jammed! That caused delay in May and June. It is reported that Indiapost is updating the system with the help of TCS. Let us hope that it will be improved. When some changes are effected in procedure there will be some problems.

PENSION ADALATS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS 

17/07

Secretary, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare has sent a letter to all Departments to hold Pension Adalat, on the same day of 23-8-2019 to settle maximum number of grievances of pensioners. We welcome this good initiative. 

See the letter from Secretary, DoP&PW: pension-adalat-in-all-depts.pdf