I Reproduced following report.---- DETAILED REPORT RECEIVED FROM LIC PENSIONERS ABOUT THEIR MEETING MINISTRY OF PENSION & MINISTRY OF FINANCE TOP EXECUTIVES. WE HAVE REPEATEDLY BEEN ASKING GEN. INS. PENSIONERS ASSONS. MUST MEET THEM BUT THEY DID NOT DO SO. PL. MUST READ, CIRCULATE & PUT PRESSURE ON YOUR PENSIONERS ASSONS TO TAKE SIMILAR STEPS: As scheduled we—M/S Anand Tyagi, K M L Asthana, V P AIRIEF (NZ), A S Zenith Secretary Meerut Association and EC Member AIRIEF, D D Gupta,Dy GS AIRIEF, K P Singh President Aligarh Association and I met Shri Sandhu at 12.45 pm. We apprised him of our pension anomalies and unending litigation as indulged in by LIC for revision/ upgradation of pension inspite of favourable repeated judgments of Rajasthan HC judgment dated 12-1-2010, 21/1/2011, 19/8/2011 and dismissal of SLPs by the Supreme Court on 15/7/2011 and 8/8/2013 and also the judgments of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Delhi High Court in our favour and expressed our concern on the unwanted litigation being entailed by the Corpn. just to delay /prolong the litigation, implementation of the said HC order and our agony. He enquired whether pensions in LIC are not being revised as in Center and States. We gave the reply in negative, he was surprised to hear this and said why? We said it can be replied by LIC.Then he talked to the Chairman LIC and expressed his unhappiness over this and the litigation being prolonged and wanted to settle the issue. He also asked the Chairman to send a detailed note. The Chairman must have said something during his talks about issue of DA/DR anomalies, which we said for the present the DA/DR issue has become stale since it came to an end on 31/7/1997 in case the pensions are revised on that date and for the present we have come about the revisions of pensions. However, we said that LIC Board had taken a decision to remove the DA/DR anomaly way back in November, 2001 wherein the Central Government was fully represented since two Jt. Secretaries from the Finance (Insurance) Department were the members besides the Chairman and two Managing Directors, who are themselves representatives of the CG being on their roles and out of two private members one had raised this issued. The Resolution was unanimously approved still it was left for the approval of the CG, which has not come within these 13 years though it was not necessary as the Counsel for the CG had stated before the HC and was never controverted by the CG, still LIC is continuing Proxy litigation just to harass the poor pensioners. Mr. Sandhu expressed his dissatisfaction on this. Shri Sandhu then called Mr. Srivastava, Director Insurance (LIC) who showed his ignorance about the two issues and the litigations. Then Mr. Sandhu asked the Director to collect all the details from LIC about the reasons for not implementing the judgments and unwanted litigations without the notice of the Director. We cannot definitely say what the Chairman told Mr. Sandhu but felt the Chairman told him that the issue of DA/DR anomaly was referred to the Govt. and the issue of revision was a wider one involving Banks and GIC Pensioners also. We immediately replies it is strange the LIC Chairman is interested in the pensioners of Banks instead of his own Corporaton and detailed the different procedure and states of the Banks and LIC, there is no parity whatsoever. Further what we are demanding is the implementation of the Notifications and not even a single paisa over that, Notifications do not say that these revised pay scales will not be applied to retired employees while as per the Pension Rules and various judgments we are and will remain the employees, and the Notifications are issued under the provisions of the LIC Act, then where is the question of prolonged litigation. It seemed the Chairman wanted to know as to who were the people who called on him(Mr. Sandhu) and Mr. Sandhu replied and just repeated that many people have come from the Federation. Thereafter Mr. Sandhu asked Mr. Shrivastava to look into the matter of DA/DR anomalies and clear the same. He reverted to us to say that he was fully convinced of our problem of no revision /upgradation of pensions for all these years and that HC Order was also in our favour, but the same was a wider issue involving Banks and GIC Pensioners also. But , he said ‘let us see and we will try to find out a way’. The meeting was then over with thanks to Mr. Sandhu and a photograph. We then met Mr. Ravi Shankar ,Secretary Deptt Of Pensions GOI. He went through our memorandum. Two jt. Secretaries of his deptt. were also present. They asked for many clarifications which were duly given to them. The Secretary informed us that his Deptt. was responsible for solving problems of the Central Govt Pensioners and that this problem of LIC Pensioners had come to him for the first time. He may not take any decision on our problem of revision/upgradation of pension in LIC because being beyond his jurisdiction but assured us that he was fully convinced of our case and that it was not a happy position that the pensions in LIC have not been revised/upgraded all these years and more so when the Cours judgments are also in our favour. He assured us time and again that he would write to the Secretary Deptt Of Financial Services recommending to consider the issue with a positive frame of mind and sympathetically and give a copy of his letter to us also and would help us in the manner to follow up the issue on our behalf. The meeting was then over with thanks to the Secretary and the two Jt. Secretaries and a few photographs. Thus we feel it is a good development and we must pray to the Almighty for early success.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 08:58:15 +0000
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