PAYMENT OF PENSION ON 1.4.2015 IN CBS OFFICES ALSO IN AP - TN - KARNATAKA

CPMG ANDHRA & CPMG KARNATAKA (ADDITONAL CHARGE OF TAMILNADU) ISSUED ORDERS FOR PAYMENT OF PENSION / PAY ON 1.4.2015 

In the absence of any useful orders by the Directorate in response to the email of the CHQ as well as the letter of NFPE and All India General Secretaries, the Chief PMG and Chief PMG Karnataka who is holding additional charge of Tamilnadu have issued orders for payment of pension and pay on 1.4.2015 as cash or cheque.

The efforts taken by the Circle Unions of NFPE and AIPRPA in AP as well as the Circle Secretary of P3 Tamilnadu is responsible for these orders by the Chief PMGs. We thank the NFPE Circle Unions for their efforts. 

AIPRPA CHQ also thank the Chief PMGs of Andhra and Karnataka for their consideration of the issues of Senior Citizens and Employees. 

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary

PROBLEM IS NOT IMAGINARY - IT IS REAL NEWS FROM ANDHRA CIRCLE OFFICE

ANOTHER EMAIL TO SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF POSTS ON PAYMENT OF PENSION ON 1.4.2015

Dear Madam, 

This Association of Postal & RMS Pensioners is much concerned by the information received today that the CBS Circle Monitoring Team in the Circle Office of Hyderabad has emailed to all divisional heads on 25th March that Finacle will not function on 1st April 2015. Therefore it has been instructed that the pension to pensioners and salary to employees will be done only on the next working day. As you are aware that 2nd and 3rd are holidays to Post Offices, no pension and salary will be available to pensioners and employees whose pension and salary are attached to POSB in post offices of CBS system. Last year also this problem had occured but it was for a single day but this time the problem is serious  because of the continuous holidays. This Association once again requests you to personally intervene and ensure direct payment instead of putting it in SB account as a special case for this month. This urgent matter may kindly be given serious attention to mitigate any problem to the senior citizens. 

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary

All India Postal & RMS Pensioners Association.

ORAL EVIDENCE ON PENSIONERS ISSUES BY JCM LEADERS TODAY

ORAL EVIDENCE COMMENCED BY 7th CPC

Justice Mathur Chairman of 7th Pay Commission

Staff Side JCM National Council tendered Oral Evidence yesterday and tendering today also

Issues of Employees were placed yesterday and today also it will be continued 

Issues of Pensioners are going to be placed before Pay Commission today - The arguments placed by the Staff Side JCM National Council will be important on Pensioners issues even though some Pensioners Organisations will also likely to get opportunities to tender Oral Evidence later. 

Gist of discussions held yesterday and today and the trend of discussions will be  placed shortly here after the same is made known by the attending leaders of JCM National Council Staff Side leaders. 

AIPRPA EMAILS TO SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF POSTS ON PENSION PAYMENT ON 1st APRIL 2015

AIPRPA / 2 / 3 Dated 20^th March, 2015

To

The Secretary

Department of Posts

Government of India

Dak Bhawn     

New Delhi – 110001

Madam,

Sub: Pension payment for the month of March 2015 through POSB functioning under CBS – regarding.

This Association of Postal & RMS Pensioners draws your kind attention to the fact that last year on 1^st April, 2014 no payment of pension could be disbursed through POSB on the request of Infosys due to some technical problems in the CBS. In fact all SB transactions were suspended on that day. Many pensioners were made to return home empty handed without drawing their pension on that day.

This year 1^st April is followed by two holidays on 2^nd and 3^rd April for Mahavir jayanthi and Good Friday and therefore any recurrence of previous problem on 1^st April will cause heavy hardships on pensioners as they could not draw their pension until 4^th April, 2015.

This Association therefore seeks your kind intervention to prevent any such recurrence this year and if suspension of all SB transactions on 1^st April is unavoidable, then necessary instructions may please be issued to all concerned for effecting payment of pension on 31^st March, 2015 itself irrespective of the fact that no payment or pension payment is normally done on the closing day of the financial year.

Reply to our email on the nature of action contemplated will receive  our appreciation.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary

AIPRPA

AIPRPA WRITES TO DEPARTMENT OF PENSION & PENSIONERS WELFARE

AIPRPA / 1/ 3 / 2005 Dated 20^th March, 2015

To

The Deputy Secretary (PW)

Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare

Government of India

Lok Nayak Bhawan

Khan Market,

New Delhi – 110003

Sir,

Sub: Pre-retirement counselling workshop to be held on 31-03-2015.

Ref: Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare website notification.

Kindly refer to the Pre-retirement counselling workshop to be conducted by the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare on 31^st March, 2015, from 2.00 P.M to 5.00 P.M in the lecture room of India International Centre Annexe-40, Max Muller Marg, New Delhi – 110003.

The above information had been placed in the website of Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare prompty. However, many employees who are about to retire within the next six months could not attend as the above notification of the Pension & Pensioners Welfare Department was not at all circulated amongst the retiring employees by the Department of Posts and therefore no proper relief could be made available to the willing employees retiring shortly.

While the action of Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare is laudable, no purpose will be apparently served if prompt information does not  reach all concerned and all departments of central government do not take prompt action in circulating the message and facilitating relief in time to willing officials to attend the counselling workshop.

If the above workshop is intended only for employees retiring from the National Capital and not meant for employees of various departments working all over the country, then such an indication must have been made in the notification of the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare in its website.

This is for your kind information and for appropriate action.   

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary

All India Postal & RMS Pensioners Association

JUSTICE DELAYED BUT DEFINITELY NOT DENIED

HONOURABLE SUPREME COURT TODAY

 (17.03.2015) HAS REPORTEDLY 

DISMISSED ALL SLPs

 FILED BY GOVERNMENT AGAINST 

PRE-2006 PENSIONERS

The Honourable Supreme Court of India has reportedly today dismissed all pending SLPs filed by the Government of India against implementation of CAT Principal Bench on the issue of Pre-2006 Pensioners. We also learn that the Government had reportedly requested for 4 months’ time for implementation to all pre-2006 pensioners.

All of you may be aware that the Government through its latest order of the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare tried to clarify as to why it had implemented only for S-29 Scale retirees and not for all other pre-2006 pensioners. In that order it had stated that unless and until the remaining three SLPs are not disposed of finally by the Apex Court, the Government will not implement the judgment of CAT Principal Bench for all pre-2006 pensioners.

The Government has finally met its waterloo today wherein the Apex Court has categorically dismissed all pending SLPS in this matter. There appears to be no other way for the Central Government now but to implement the pensioners favourable judgment to all categories of Pre-2006 Pensioners.

We hail the judgments of Honourable Supreme Court of India.

We hope the Central Government will at least now understand that it cannot for ever cheat the senior pensioners who toiled throughout their life for the service of Government.

This marks a great victory for the persistent struggle launched by several organisations of pensioners against the unjustified stand of the Central Government.

Even though this judgment will not bring Full Parity in Pension to all past and future Pensioners as we are continuously demanding since the retrograde recommendations of 6^th CPC were known, it is definitely a great victory on the face of misinterpretation of the 6^th CPC recommendation by a section of bureaucrats after initially accepting and ordering for implementation of pay commission recommendations to the extent of calculating minimum pension on the basis of  pay in the pay band of each cadre   instead of minimum of pay band.

This judicial victory prior to conclusion of enquiries by the 7^th CPC is expected to go a long way in favour of lakhs of pensioners in determining the pension for all past pensioners through the recommendations of 7^th CPC. We wish all Pensioners Organisations while submission of their oral evidence before the Pay Commission shall underline the importance of this judicial victory as well as to impress upon the Chairman of 7^th CPC for Full Parity in Pension to past and future pensioners.

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary AIPRPA

One Rank One Pension to Armed Forces Personnel

ONE RANK ONE PENSION ORDER FOR ARMED PERSONNEL  BY 30^TH APRIL

PARITY IN PENSION FOR ALL CIVILIAN PENSIONERS 

THIS SHOULD BECOME THE MAJOR DEMAND OF ALL PENSIONERS ORGANISATIONS

The Army Chief General had informed that the orders of the Government granting One Rank One Pension to Armed Forces Personnel will be issued by end of April and that the arrears will be paid w.e.f. 1.4.2014.

The demand for One Rank One Pension was consistently being raised by the Armed Forces personnel and we may remember that the earlier UPA Government on the eve of the General Elections had approved it in the Cabinet meeting. After considerable delay, the present Government appears to have made up its mind to grant the same. As per the One Rank One Pension formula every Pensioner of the Armed Forces will be brought on the new pay scale recommended by each pay commission and equal number of increments on par with the number of service put in the particular rank in which he had retired to determine his pension fixation. This will bring jubilation to both in service Armed Personnel as well as all the Pensioners of Armed Services because automatically any higher pay scale granted by pay commission is made available to the past pensioners also and the number of increments in that cadre he had put in before his retirement is taken into account to add the number of increments in that pay scale.

This should strengthen the resolve of the Civilian Pensioners to get the demand of Parity in Pension to all past and future pensioners by which every past pensioner is notionally fixed in the revised pay scale as though he was in service and then his pension is re fixed. This alone will remove all anomalies existing by the so called modified parity recommended by VI CPC and implemented by the Government.

The issue must be insisted with urgency by all Pensioners Organisations before the 7^th CPC as well as before the Central Government. The denial of this justified demand should result in unification of all Pensioners Organisations under one banner to launch a movement along with the entirety of the Central Government Employees movement.

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary AIPRPA

SUCCESSFUL 1st STATE CONFERENCE OF AIPRPA OF ANDHRA STATE

AIPRPA Andhra State Conference held at Mangalagiri (Andhra) on 11-03-2015

The 1^st State Conference of AIPRPA Andhra was convened by the General Convenor Comrade Y.Nagabhushanam on 11-03-2015 at Arya Vysya Kalyana Mandapam, Mangalagiri. The Conference hall was named as Comrade S.K.Vyas Nagar in memory of the departed leader. The Reception Committee headed by Comrade A.Venkatappaiah as General Secretary and Shri. Sanka Balaji Gupta honourable Vice Chairman of Mangalagiri Municipality had made excellent arrangements. The Conference was presided over by Comrade S.K.Humayun the CHQ Assistant General Secretary. Comrade A.Venkatappaiah Branch Secretary P3 Mangalagiri as well as the General Secretary of Reception Committee delivered welcome address. Delegates from almost all districts of Andhra participated. The Conference was inaugurated by the General Secretary Comrade K.Ragavendran.

The Postmaster General of Vijayawada Region Shri.M.Sampath attended as the Chief Guest and addressed the Conference. The SSPOs Guntur Division Shri.Satyanaraya graced the conference. The Conference was addressed by leaders including Comrade R.Sivannarayana P3 NFPE CHQ President; Comrade N.Ramakrishnan Divisional Secretary P3 Guntur; Comrade V.S.Vittal Joint Secretary CGPA Mangalagiri; Comrade M.Kantharao President of Cooperative Bank Guntur Region; and Comrade T.Yellarao leader of Vijayawada P&T Pensioners Association.

The Conference was graced by Comrades N.Nageswara Rao Regional Secretary P3 NFPE; P.Baskara Rao ACS P3; and R.Mariadas Branch Secretary P4 Mangalagiri.

The afternoon session was the subjects committee in which region wise delegates participated in the discussion over the report submitted by the General Convenor Comrade Y.Nagabhushanam. At the end of the discussion, the General Secretary Comrade K.Ragavendran spoke on various points raised by the delegates. Comrade Y.Nagabhushanam then summed up the discussion and moved the many resolutions including the following some of the important issues:

1. Opening of a separate CGHS dispensary for Andhra State at Visakhapatnam.
2. Merger of Postal Dispensaries with CGHS.
3. To get affiliated with the Andhra State CGPA Pensioners Association and strengthen the common movement of pensioners.
4. To hold special conventions of postal pensioners region wise in Andhra State during April.
5. Decided to fix annual subscription 200/- per member and to remit quota at the fixed rates to both State and CHQ before May 2015.
6. To request the Postal Circle Administration for providing a room accommodation in all HPOs for the functioning of AIPRPA.

The election of office bearers was unanimous (Full list of Office Bearers will be published soon) and a team of office bearers headed by the following Comrades was elected:

State President: Com.Peraiah

State Working President: Com.SK.Humayun

State General Secretary: Com.Y.Nagabhushanam

State Deputy General Secretary: Com.Uma Maheswaran

State Treasurer: Com.Masthanrao

The Conference ended with a firm resolve to build the organisation strongly in all districts. 

Mangalagiri Temple Tower

A view of Temple

A view of Delegates in State Conference

Homage to Comrade S.K.Vyas

Dais named after the departed leader Comrade Vyasji

Elected State General Secretary Y.Nagabhushanam summing up the discussion

President of the Conference Com.S.K.Humayun

All India General Secretary K.Ragavendran inaugurating the State Conference

PMG Vijayawada Region Shri.M.Sampath Chief Guest addressing the Conference

Comrade T.Yellarao addressing the  inaugural session

Newly elected Deputy General Secretary Com.Uma Maheswaran delivering welcome address

Newly elected Advisor to State Association Comrade M.Kantharao addressing

Newly elected State Treasurer Com.Masthanrao addressing 

Newly elected office bearers show solidarity

Government Clarificatory orders on Pre-2006 Pensioners issue

JUSTICE TO PRE-2006 PENSIONERS GETTING DELAYED

Government clarifies that S-29 Scale Pensioners alone were given effect from 1.1.2006 based on final orders by Supreme Court.

Other 3 cases are pending at Supreme Court and until those cases also are disposed off by the Supreme Court, the remaining Pre-2006 Pensioners have to wait!! Thus Justice to all Pre-2006 Pensioners is getting delayed!

The orders of the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare is as  under: 

G.I., Dept. of Pen. & P.W., O.M.No.38/77-A/09-P&PW(A)(Pt.)

 

Sub:- Revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners – reg.

 

The orders for implementation of the decision taken by the Government on the recommendations of 6th CPC for revision for pension of past pensioners were issued vide Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare's OM dated 1.9.2008. The provisions of Para 4.2 of this OM were clarified vide this Department's letter dated 3.10.2008.

 

 

2. The Hon'ble Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi in its common order dated 1.11.2011 in four petitions [OA No.655/2010, 306/2010, 50712010 and 3079/2009] directed that the past pensioners may be granted, w.e.f. 1.1.2006, a minimum pension with reference to the fitment table applicable for revision of pay of serving employees.

 

3. A large number of representations from pre-2006 pensioners are being received by the Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare for extension of benefits similar to what had been allowed in case of OA No.655/2010 by CAT, Principal Bench, New Delhi.

 

4. In this context, it is informed that four Writ Petitions were filed in the High Court of Delhi challenging the order dated 1.11.2011 of Hon'ble CAT in four OAs. These petitions were dismissed on 29.4.2013. Subsequently, four SLPs were filed in the Hon'ble Supreme Court over a period of time against the said order of the Hon'ble High Court. Of the four SLPs, the one pertaining to Central Government SAG (S-29) Pensioners' Association which was first in the series of said SLPs, has since been dismissed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court on 29.7.2013. As the Review Curative Petition against the said order dated 29.7.2013 also failed, the Government of India decided to comply with the order by extending the requisite benefits to the parties involved in the said SLP. As regards the other three SLPs (Nos.36148-50/2013), Hon'ble Supreme Court in its order dated 19.11.2013 issued notice and made the following observation: .

 

"Learned Counsel for the respondent submits that during the pendency of these petitions the respondent-writ petitioners shall not precipitate the matter by filing contempt proceedings either before the High Court or before the Tribunal. That statement is recorded. "

 

5. Thus the issue of revision of pension of pre-2006 pensioners w.e.f. 1.1.2006 as covered under SLP Nos. 36148-50/2013 in the Apex Court which have been tagged with Civil Appeal No.8875-76/2011 filed by Ministry of Defence in a similar matter is subjudice.

 

6. This is the information.

 

7. The outcome of SLPs under reference in Para (4) would be brought to the notice of all Ministries /Departments.