NCCPA on the Move
- NCCPA National Secretariat Meeting will be held on 7.2.2016 in New Delhi. The meeting is notified to be held at AIRF Library Hall, State Entry Road, New Delhi 110001 (Near New Delhi Railway Station) at 2.00 P.M. The Notice for the above meeting is exhibited in the website of NCCPA (www.nccpahq.blogspot.in) Comrades of AIPRPA who are Office Bearers of the NCCPA elected in the recent 3rd AIC of NCCPA shall attend the meeting. They are requested to make their journey reservations immediately.
- The Secretary General NCCPA has written to the Secretary Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare on the matter of interaction with us on all issues as NCCPA is the apex organization of various CG Pensioners Associations throughout the country.
- Circular Number 2 of NCCPA issued by the Secretary General NCCPA is also released today.
The Circular, the Notice for
Secretariat and the letter to Secretary to MoP&PW – all three are exhibited
hereunder for the information of our members:
K.Ragavendran
General Secretary AIPRPA
NATIONAL CO-ORINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c Feroze Shah
Road,
New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 22.12.2015.
Website: www.nccpahq.blogspot.com
Email. nccpahq@gmail.com
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President: Com.
Shiv Gopal Misra
Working
President: Com. S.S. Roy.
Secretary Genl: Com. K.K.N. Kutty.
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Notice
is hereby given for a meeting of the National Secretariat (i.e. the office bearers
who were elected at the conference at Kolkata) on 7th Feb. 2016 at New Delhi to discuss the following agenda. The meeting will be held at the AIRF Library hall, State Entry Road, New
Delhi. 110 001. The Sectt. members are requested to make their own arrangements for stay at
Delhi. Any comrade who wanted us to make
arrangements for the accommodation; he may kindly get in touch with Com. K. Raghavendran
(Mobile No. 9444919295) Agenda for discussion will be as under; The meeting
will commence at 2.00PM. on 7.2.2016.
1.
Enumeration of the Conference decisions and the
modus operandi to give effect to those decisions.
2.
7th CPC recommendations, points for
improvement, preparation of campaign material and finalization of action
programmes.
3.
Widening the organizational base of NCCPA.
4.
State of affairs of finance and the ways and
means to improve it.
5.
Increasing circulation of the journal and making
it financially viable.
6.
Any other matter with the permission of the
Chair.
All Sectt. members are requested to kindly make it
convenient to attend the meeting.
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General
PS:
Enumeration of the Conference
decisions will be made by Com. Pavithra Chakraborty, Deputy Secretary General
and the modus operandi will be discussed at the meeting. He would kindly send a note in this regard to
the Secretary General for circulation at the meeting by 31.1.2016.
Note on agenda item No. 2 will
be prepared and circulated by the Secretary General.
Note on agenda item No. 3 will
be prepared by Com. K. Raghavendran, Deputy Secretary General as a base paper
for discussion.
Note on agenda Item No. 4 and 5 will be prepared by Com. S.S. Roy,
Working President in consultation with Com. Pavitra chakraborty, Com. R.L.
Bhattacharya, Patron and the Assistant Treasurer and Treasurer.
In the agenda “any other matter
with the permission of the Chair” the proposal for amendments to constitution
received from various units or from the Sectt,. Members and the steps to be
taken to get the NCCPA registered with the Registrar of Societies will be
briefly discussed. If any member would like to discuss any issues other than
mentioned in the agenda, he may do so, by sending a brief note on the issue to
the Secretary General, which would be taken up under agenda item No. 6, subject
to the constraints of time.
NATIONAL CO-ORINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c Feroze shah
Road,
New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 22.12.2015.
Website: www.nccpahq.blogspot.com
Email. nccpahq@gmail.com
Shri Devendra Chaudhary.
Secretary, Pension & Pension welfare
Lok
Nayak Bhavan,
New Delhi,Delhi,110001(e. mail: secy-arpg@nic.in)
Dear Sir,
The “National Co-ordination Committee of Pensioners
Associations” is the apex organization of the various Central Government
pensioners Associations viz, the pensioners Associations in the Railways,
Defence, and Postal, BSNL and erstwhile Telecom department and other Central
Government Departments. The need for
such an all India organization was felt by the Pensioners Associations
functioning either at the regional or State levels or at the Departmental levels
to channelize the common grievances of the Central Government pensioners in the
country. In the founding convention that
was held at Jaipur, Rajasthan, in 2008, Com. U.M. Purohit, the then Secretary,
Staff Side National council and the President of the All India Railwaymen
Federation was elected as the Patron along with
Shri V.A.N.Namboodiri, the erstwhile Secretary General of the BSNL
Employees association. Shri R.L.
Bhattacharya, former Secretary General of the National Federation of Postal
Employees took over as the President and Shri S.K. Vyas, a long time Secretary General of the All India Audit
and Accounts Association and a Sanding Committee member of the National
Council, JCM, right from its inception was elected as the first Secretary
General. All these leaders were veterans
of the Trade Union movement of the Central Government employees and had the
rich experience of formulating the demands and issues of the employees
including their retirement benefits before the successive Pay Commissions.
Due to the sad demise of both Shri. U.M. Purohit and
Shri S.K.Vyas in succession, and due to the failing health of Shri R.L.
Bhattacharya, the all India Conference of NCCPA which was held at Kolkata
elected Shri Shiva Gopal Misra, the Staff Side Secretary of the JCM. National
Council as the President and shri K.K.N.
Kutty, former Secretary General of Income-tax Employees Federation for many
years and presently a member of the Standing Committee of the National council
as the Secretary General. Shri R.L.
Bhattacharya and Shri V.A.N. Namboodiri were requested to be the patrons to
help and advise the functioning of the NCCPA.
The NCCPA in its functioning as an apex organization
of all Central Government Pensioners in the country during its short period of
existence has been able to channelize
the grievances and demands of the pensioner in general before the
authorities. The NCCPA’s memorandum to
the 7th Central Pay Commission stand testimony to this fact. The Staff Side, JCM which submitted an
elaborate memorandum on all issues concerning both the working employees and
pensioners had almost adopted the views and suggestions made by the NCCPA in
respect of retirement benefits. Not only
did it try to present the demands of the pensioners before the Government and
other agencies effectively, it could through frequent interaction with its
affiliates bring home the points of view of the Government expressed through
the official side and the constraints of the Government in meeting out certain
demands despite appreciating the genuineness of them. In fact it functioned as
an effective conduit, beneficial for all concerned. The
democratic manner of the functioning of the NCCPA gives room for all to express and advance
their views and take decisions on the basis of a consensus.
We write this to bring to your kind notice that while
many of our affiliates and the State level organizations do receive
communications from the Ministry of Pension asking them their views on matters
concerning pension, the NCCPA was not favoured with a formal communication to
enable us to present before the Ministry the consensus view of the Pensioners
at large. Recently the Department of
Pension solicited the views of the pensioners on the question of linking Aadhar
Card with pension payment and their suggestions on the recommendations of the 7th
CPC. While it is highly appreciated that
the Government and the Department of Pension solicit the views of even smaller
organizations, we strongly feel that it would have been equally good, if not
better, to elicit the views and opinions of the Apex organizations like NCCPA whose
submission by virtue of its very functioning shall have a pan-Indian touch;
tempered by reasonableness and
generality of approach. It is the avowed
endeavor of NCCPA to build bridge between the Government and the Pensioners and
discuss the issues and problems in a conducive atmosphere and arrive at
conclusions mutually beneficial.
In this background, May we request you to kindly
register our name in your list of Pensioners organizations to seek out our
opinions and views on various pensioner-related matters, invite us formally for
attending the seminars, conventions, conferences and meetings, organized by the
Department of Pension in frequent intervals.
Thanking you and in anticipation of a favourable
response,
Yours faithfully,
K.K.N. Kutty,
Secretary General.
Copy to :
Smt.Vandana Sharma,
Joint Secretary,
Department of Pension &
Pensioners welfare
Lok Nayak Bhawan
New Delhi. 110 001
NATIONAL
COORDINATION COMMITTEE OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS
13/c Feroze
shah Road,
New Delhi. 110
001
Dated: 22.12.2015.
Circular No. 2/2015-16.
Dear Comrades,
As
you are aware, the 7th CPC submitted its report to the Government on
19th November, 2015. The
National Joint council of action or organizations participating in the JCM at
the National level characterized the recommendations as the most retrograde and
perhaps the worst ever in the wage increase any Pay commission has ever made in
the past. Many affiliates and State committees had sent in their comments on
those recommendations pertaining to the Pensioners and other retirement
benefits.
We
explored the possibilities of convening an emergent meeting of the office
bearers of NCCPA elected at its Kolkata Conference. However, due to paucity of time and other
logistics, we had to abandon that idea.
It was then decided in consultation with Com. President to convene a
meeting on 8th December, 2015 at New Delhi to discuss the
recommendations of the 7th CPC.
Accordingly, besides, the President and Secretary General, all the Vice
Presidents, Patrons, Treasurer and the two Deputy Secretaries General attended
the said meeting. Due to the delayed
running of the train, the President could not attend the meeting. Com. S.S.Roy, Working president presided over
the meeting. On the first day, the meeting decided upon the issues that must be
referred to the Staff Side JCM National Council, for inclusion in their charter
of demands. The demands so formulated
are as under:-
I. Revise the pension and other retirement benefits as
under:-
(a)
Parity between
the past and present pensioners to be brought about on the basis of the 7th
CPC recommendations with the modification that basis of computation to be the
pay level of the post/grade/scale of pay from which one retired, whichever
is beneficial.
(b)
Pension to be 60%
of the last pay drawn in the case of all eligible persons who have completed
the requisite number of years of service.
(c)
The family
pension to be 50% of the last pay drawn.
(d)
Enhance the
pension and family pension by 5% after every five years and 10% on attaining
the age of 85 and 20% on attaining the age of 90.
(e)
Commuted value of
pension to be restored after 10 years or attaining the age of 70 whichever is
earlier. Gratuity calculation to be on the basis of 25 days in the month
(f)
Fixed medical
allowance for those pensioners not covered by CGHS and REHS to be increased to
Rs. 2000 p.m.
(g)
Provide one
increment on the last day in service if the concerned employee has completed
six months or more from the date of grant of last increment.
II. The
full fledged meeting of the NCCPA Sectt. will be held either in the last week
of January or in the first week of Feb. at New Delhi.
III. NCCPA
website will be maintained by Com. K. Ragavendran, Deputy Secretary General in
consultation with the Secretary General,
IV. A
joint Bank Account will be opened in any Nationalized Bank at Delhi operated by
the Secretary General and Treasurer.
V. The
present arrangement of publishing the journal from Kolkata will continue. Com. Pavitra Chakraborthy will be in charge
of the journal publication. An Editorial
board with Com.K.K.N. Kutty Secretary General as Chairman and Com. S.S.Roy and
Com. Pavithra Chatterji will be constituted.
The advice and assistance of Com. R.L. Bhattacgarya Patron will be
solicited.
VI. Remittance
of annual subscription by the affiliates, state Committees and other
individuals will be made to Com. H.L.Sidhu, Tresurer only in the form of Bank
Draft or through Bank transfer.
VII. Remittances
in respect of the journal will be made over to Com. Pavitra Chakrsborty, Deputy
Secretary General at his Kolkata address.
He along with the Assistant Treasurer will maintain the requisite
account for the journal.
IX. The
Constitution copy of the NCCPA will be placed on the website. Suggestions and comments for amendment may be
sent to the Secretary General. The same
will be discussed for appropriate action by the next meeting of the National
Secretariat.
X Com.
V.A.N. Namboodiri, patron of NCCPA will
help in getting affiliation and registration with the TUI for NCCPA for which a
formal decision was taken at the last Conference.
XI. Com.
K. Ragavendran Deputy Secretary General
will take steps to get the NCCPA registered under the Registrar or Societies
and a final decision in the matter will be taken at the next meeting of the
National Secretariat.
XII. The
meeting also decided to endorse the call of the NJCA in pursuance of the
charter of demands.
The
NJCA in its meeting on 8th
December 2015, accepted the proposal of the NCCPA in so far as the
acceptance of the demands pertaining to pensioners were concerned and included
the same as Item No. 13 of the Charter of demands. They have decided to go on indefinite strike
if no settlement is brought about on these demands. As a prologue and in a bid to mobilize the
employees, they have also decided the following programmes of action in the
month of January and Febraury, 2015.
30.12.2015:
Holding demonstrations and hand over copy of the NJCA’s letter dated 10.12.2015
to the Head of the Office for onward transmission to the Cabinet Secretary,
demanding for immediate settlement of the issues.
19-21.01.2016:
3-day dharna in all the State capitals and
industrial centers/ establishments for educating and mobilizing the employees.
We request all the affiliated
Associations and State Committee to part take in the programmes of action either independently or in co-operation with
the working employees and make it s a grand success. What should be modus of our participation as
and when the strike action is decided will be the subject matter of
deliberation at our next meeting of the National Secretariat.
With greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
Sd/-
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General
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