A request forwarded to Finance Minister of Pakistan,Mr.Muhammad Ishaq Dar about PTCL Pensioners issue as he had constituted a committee to resolve the outstanding issues between GoP and Etisalat/PTCL.The message is reproduced here for the information of the colleagues: From: Muhammad Tauqeer To: "[email protected]" Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 10:24 PM Subject: PLIGHT OF 40,000 P.T.C.L PENSIONERS To, Mr.Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Finance Minister, Government of Pakistan. Respected Sir, Kindly refer press clippings about meeting of "ETISALAT" delegation with your good honour on 06-07-2013 and constitution of a committee to resolve all the outstanding issues within 10-days,we may kindly be allowed to submit the request of above 40,000 PTCL Pensioners including 13,000 poor widows facing severe financial crisis during the previous regime for fourth consecutive year now.The issue is described by the outgoing Minister on Information Technology,Dr.Sania Nishter in her "HAND OVER PAPER" as under please: "8. PTCL PENSIONERS Pakistan Telecommunication Employees Trust (PTET) was established as a Pension Trust under Section 44 of Pakistan Telecommunication (Reorganization) Act 1996 to disburse pensions to PTCL Pensioners without disturbing their pre-determined rights. The Trust is managed by a Board of Trustees, comprising six members, three from Federal Government (MoIT) and three from the Company, PTCL. Since the formation of the Trust in 1996 till 30th June 2010, all pension increases as announced by the GoP were paid to the pensioners. However, a deviation occurred in 2010-11 when the PTET Board opted to increase pension from 8 to 20% for various categories of pensioners as opposed to the Government‟s announced increase of 50%. Since then 39,000 pensioners including around 13,000 poor widows are seeking an increase as per the law. I was briefed by the Ministry officials that the enhanced increase of pension is well within the reach of PTET and that considerable efforts have been made by MoIT to pursue the matter with PTET. The matter is currently subjudice but demands the personal attention of my successor on legal and humanitarian grounds. " The detailed "Hand Over Paper" is available at: sanianishtar.info/pdfs/Handover_paper_MoIT.pdf It is requested that while negotiating on other issues with Etisalat/PTCL, our issue may also kindly be got settled through your kind intervention regarding grant of increase in Pension and Medical Allowance as announced by GoP for last four years as PTCL has to pay its huge share to PTET for last many years. Thanks in anticipation, T&T/PTC/PTCL Pensioners through Muhammad Tauqeer, Member, All Pakistan PTCL Pensioners Association, Sialkot. Ph#**********
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:03:12 +0000
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