NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13-C Feroze Shah
Road, New Delhi. 110 001.
Website:
nccpahq.blogspot.in.
E mail:
nccpahq@gmail.com.
PRESIDENT:
COM.SHIV GOPAL MISHRA.(97176 47594)
SECY.
GENERAL: COM.K.K.N.KUTTY.
(98110 483030)
Dated: 02.07.2020
Dear Comrades.
The National Secretariat of
NCCPA met though video conferencing on 15th June, 2020. Com. Shiv Gopal Misra, President chaired the
meeting. Due to some technical reasons,
Com. Pavitra Chakraborty and Com. Prabhakaran Nair (both Deputy Secretary
Generals) could not join the meeting.
The meeting which lasted for more than an hour took note of the
following developments.
(a)
The unhindered spread of Covid 19 corona virus
in the country despite lock down of more than 75 days.
(b)
The plight of pensioners and other retired personnel during this period
(c)
The utter disregard of CGHS over the
difficulties of the beneficiaries, especially pensioners.
(d)
The decision of the Government to deny the
dearness relief for 18 months
(e)
The vigorous persuasion of the privatization of
even strategic sectors of the economy taking advantage of the corona situation
in the country.
(f)
Amendments to labour laws including increasing
the working hours
(g)
The proposed movement of the united platform of
central trade unions.
2. The meeting also briefly discussed
the prospects of pursuing the MACP cases in the administrative tribunal. It was decided that in view of the situation
obtaining in Delhi due to covid 19 as also at Chennai, the matter might be kept
pending for some more time. However, in
the meantime the Secretary General may generate a format of application form
and place the same on the website. The
affiliates might get the application filled in by the interested persons and
collect the requisite fees from them so that the case can be filed as and when
the courts are open.
2. After discussions, the meting took
the following decisions:
(i) The
pensioners, wherever possible will join hands with the working employees
to take part in the protest actions organized by the united platform of working
class as also independently by the CGE organizations.
(ii) to send an
appropriately worded resolution to the Prime Minister conveying the feelings
and problems of pensioners especially emanating from the denial of DR.
(iii) to advise
each affiliate and the pensioner member to send a brief e mail communication to
the Prime Minister.
(iv) the
affiliates and the members will be advised to ensure that the e mails are sent
before the end of July, 2020.
(v) On CGHS difficulties, the President and Secretary General
will take up the matter with the Staff
Side JCM and prepare common
communication as the issues are
one and the same for both pensioners and working employees.
3. The text of the resolution as also
the draft e mail message to be sent by all to the Prime Minister are
annexed. The e-mail to the Prime Minister may be sent to
his official e mail address. [There are three methods: Either to narendramodi1234@gmail.com (PM
Email ID) or connect@mygov.nic.in
(PMO Email ID) or by going to http;//pgportal.gov.in and registering with your
user ID and Password you can send the email to Honourable Prime Minister].
4. The
meeting decided that the National Executive of NCCPA must meet in July through
video conferencing. The Secretary
General was asked to take requisite steps.
5. All the Sectt. members and the
Chief Executives (Secretary
General/General Secretary) of affiliates
are requested to communicate their e-mail address to Com. K.Ragavendran,
Deputy Secretary General NCCPA. A link
will be emailed in that email from nccpa.hq@gmail.com and by clicking the link you all can join the
video conference.
6. In the meantime, a meeting was
arranged by the General Secretary of TUI (P&R) in which besides the undersigned,
Com. K.Ragavendran and Com. K.G.Jayaraj
attended. We are happy to inform you that Com. K.Ragavendran has been elected
as the Convenor of the Asian region of TUI .
We propose to hold a meeting of the representatives of the pensioners
associations in the Asian continent first through video conferencing. Kindly visit the website for knowing the
developments in the pensioners’ world.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
Sd/-
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General
Full text of the resolution adopted in the video conference of NCCPA and sent to the Prime Minister on 4.7.2020 by the
NCCPA.
This
meeting of the National Secretariat of NCCPA held through video conferencing
painfully takes note of the extremely alarming situation developed in the world
due to the Covid 19 corona pandemic.
The
meeting pays sorrowful homage to lakhs of people around the world who succumbed
to the deadly disease and conveys the heartfelt condolences of the members of
NCCPA to the bereaved members of the family of the covid victims.
The
meeting takes note of the sacrifice, courage, conviction, dedication and the untiring efforts of the
health workers, especially the Doctors, Nurses, Para medical staff both in
India and abroad by virtue of which millions escaped from the jaws of death. The meeting specially noted the supreme
sacrifice of some of the health workers who laid down their lives for rescuing
others.
Besides
the health workers, the meeting noted that the law enforcing personnel of the
police department, officials of the local bodies, viz. Panchayat, City
Corporations and towns, the Government officials from the revenue and other departments,
the Asha and Anganawadi workers, the people who formed voluntary organizations;
all have worked in unison to control and combat the spread of the deadly
disease, given the fact that there exist no preventive and curative medicine. The meeting observed that but for the
admirable response of the people at large to the directives of the Government,
the lock down would not have been effective at all and they above all deserve
the greatest appreciation and admiration.
The
meeting also placed on record with pride and satisfaction that the pensioner
community and especially those who are members of various affiliates of NCCPA
had responded to the call of the Government to donate a day’s
salary/pension to the Prime Minister’s
public relief fund to provide the much needed financial assistance to the
people at large.
The
meeting however noted that the pensioner community had felt exasperated over
the failure of the Government of India to appreciate their plight caused by the
sudden decision taken to bring into effect a complete lock down to combat the
spread of the covid virus. Most of them being small income pensioners and
family pensioners could not make both ends meet even in the normal
circumstances. The lock down and the
consequent difficulties were unbearable for them. Being Senior citizen, they had been inflicted
with various ailments and other physical debilities. The lock down made their life miserable. No helping hand was extended to them. Contrary to what ought to have been done by
the Government to mitigate their difficulties, Government of India chose to
deny them even the dearness relief they were entitled to receive from Ist
January, 2020.
The
meeting felt that the decision of the Government conveyed vide their order in
O;.M. No. 1/1/2020.EII (B) dated 23rd April, 2020 to deny them the
dearness relief with effect from
1.1.2020 for another 18months had been
the unkindest one ever taken by any Government.
The meeting noted that never in the history of the country even on
occasions when its very existence had
been threatened by external aggression or when it faced the worst financial
crisis in 1990, has it resorted to confiscate the meager pension income of
senior citizens. The meeting observed
that no country in the world had resorted to such a step as has been taken by
the Government of India to heap such inhuman burden on senior citizens. Especially in the background of the 20
trillion rupee package, the major beneficiaries of which had been the rich
entrepreneurs and multinational corporate establishments, the denial of even
the legitimate entitlements of the pensioners, the meeting felt has revealed
the sadistic state of mind of people in authority.
The
meeting also noted that it was the same disdainful attitude that had been
responsible for the permission extended to the oil companies to raise the
retail prices of petrol and diesel continuously for 22 days when the crude oil
price in the international market had been diminishing, unmindful of the misery
and agony of the people. It was the
crudest exploitation of a situation pretty well knowing that the people gripped
with the fear of the pandemic corona virus would not be able to make any
resistance movement possible.
The
meeting has, therefore, unequivocally affirms that the order issued on23rd
April, 2020 to deny the dearness relief
to the pensioners must be
rescinded immediately, for besides the agony it inflicts on the pensioner
community, it is without legal status for the rules strictly prohibits
curtailment of pension entitlements under any circumstances. The
Government must appreciate that dearness relief is an integral part of the
pension and the Government has no authority either to deny any part of it or
even to defer its payment.
The
meeting has, therefore, decided to appeal to the Government to immediately
release the 7% Dearness relief and make over the payment of the arrears to the
pensioners without any further loss of time and direct the Ministry of Finance
to rescind the orders cited in so far as it is applicable to the pensioners and
dearness relief.
Shiv Gopal Misra
President.
Draft Email communication addressed to the Prime
Minister
We/I
solicit your kind reference to the resolution adopted by the National
Secretariat of the National Coordination Committee of Pensioners Association (NCCPA) on 15.06.2020 , copy of which has already been submitted to the honourable Prime Minister on
4th July, 2020. We/I being an
affiliated member association/member request the honourable Prime Minister to
kindly direct the Ministry of Finance to rescind the order in O.M.No. 1/1/2020-E.II(B)
dated 23rd April, 2020 forthwith and sanction the dearness relief
which has become due from 1.1.2020.
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