All
India Railwaymen's Federation General Secretary Shri.Shiva Gopal Mishra
have posted a letter on his official blog regarding that the eight
agenda items has sent to Secretary, Department of Pension &
Pensioners Welfare for the forthcoming meeting with Secretary(Pension).
We have reproduced full text of the letter and given below for your
ready reference...
Item No.1Sub: Less payment of pension to pre-96 and pre-2006 retireesIt
has been noted that the employees drawing pay scale of Rs.1400-2300 in V
CPC were allotted pay scale of Rs.5000-8000 in V CPC, and subsequently
they were placed in scale Rs.9300-34800 in PB-2 with Grade Pay of
Rs.4200. But it is surprising that, pre-1996 retirees have been placed
in PB-I pay scale Rs.5200-20200 with Grade Pay of Rs.2800.
In AIRF’s opinion, this is discrimination with the employees retired before 1.1.1996.
Necessary action, therefore, needs to be taken in the matter urgently.
Item No.2Sub: Provision of HRA for PensionerslFamily PensionersA
Government Servant while in service is paid either House Rent Allowance
or government accommodation. After retirement he is left with no
facility of government accommodation or House Rent Allowance. As such, a
pensioner has to pay a major part of his pension as a rent for
accommodation. On account of high prices of residential houses, it is
not possible for a retired employee to purchase even a small house out
of his retirement dues.
AIRF, therefore, requests that, some
provision, for payment of HRA to Pensioners/Family Pensioners, should be
made to enable them to spend their retirement life comfortably.
Item No.3Sub: Increase in Family PensionA
government employee gets pension @ 50%of his Basic Pay after
retirement, which is considered sufficient to meet the expenses on
day-to-day requirement of the family such as food, clothes etc., but
after the demise of pensioner, only 30% pension is admissible as Family
Pension to his widow. As such, the family gets 40% less pension in
comparison to the pension admissible to the employee. It is understood
that, after the demise of pensioner, the expenses are not reduced by
50%, which is perhaps the base of fixing FarnIy Pension. Moreover.
besides expenses on food, there are some other miscellaneous expenses,
which cannot be overlooked. In the circumstances, the existing provision
of 30% pension to the family of deceased pensioner is inadequate for
survival.
AIRE is, therefore, of the view that the Family Pension should be increased at least from 30% to 40%.
Item No.4Sub:
Arbitrary orders denying revision of Pension and Family Pension in
favour of the pensioners who were in receipt of Compulsory Retirement
Pension and Compassionate Allowance under Rules 40 and 41 of the Central
Civil Services(Pension) Rules, 1972In terms of rule 40
& 41 of Central Civil Services(Pension) Rules, 1972, Compulsory
Retirement Pension and Compassionate Allowance are sanctioned. Such
Compulsory Retirement Pension and Compassionate Allowance, whenever
sanctioned, are revised at par with other pensioners. But DOP&PW’s
O.M. No.38/37/08—P&PW(A) dated 03.10.2008 has stated that, there
should not be any revision on the Compulsory Retirement Pension and
Compassionate Allowance. This order will adversely affect the living
standard of the such retired employee.
AIRF, therefore, urges
upon that, this order may please be called back and the revision,
already undertaken, should be allowed to stay.
Item No.5Sub: Revision of PPO in favour of Pensioners/Family PensionersMinistry
of PPG&P(Departrnent of Pension) vide Para 11 of F. No. 38/
37/08-P&PW(A) dated 01.09.2008 has issued order that revised PPO
should be suo-moto issued by the pension sanctioning authority. This has
been revised vide PPG&PW’s subsequent F. No.38/37/08—P&PW(A)
Pt. I dated 14.10.2008 stipulating that the disbursing authority should
furnish calculation in respect of revision of Pension/Family Pension to
the pension sanctioning authority, and on receipt of the same, pension
sanctioning authority would revise the PPO in favour of pensioner/family
pensioner.
This order has created utter confusion and the same
was raised in the ordinary meeting of the NCIJCM, held on 15.05.2010,
when it was assured that the matter would be sorted out early.
Unfortunately, after lapse of long 18 months, the matter could not be
sorted out, resulting in, large number of pensionerslfamily pensioners
of pre 01.01.2006 could not get the revised PPO.
AIRF, therefore,
urges that, necessary action may be taken to issue revise PPO to the
PensionerslFamily Pensioners of pre 01.01.2006 retirees.
Item No.6Sub: Fixation of pension of pre-2006 retirees in terms of VI CPC pay scalesAIRF
feels that the pension of pre-2006 retirees should be fixed on the
basis of corresponding pay stage in new Pay Band plus Grade Pay of their
last pay drawn in pay scale held by them at the time of their
retirement.
In this regard, the Hon’ble CAT, New Delhi vide its
judgement dated 01.11.2011 in OA Nos.0655/2010, 3079/2009, 306/2010 and
0507/2010 have given the direction to fix the pension of pre-2006
retirees as stated above.
AIRF understood that, instead of
Implementing the judgernent of the CAT, DoP&PW has challenged the
judgement before the Hon’ble High Court, New Delhi.
AIRF,
therefore, requests, that the DoP&PW, instead of fighting against
Hon’ble CAT’s orders, may consider the justified demand in the interest
of the pre-2006 retirees.
Item No.7Sub: Restoration of commuted portion of pensionPresently,
there is a provision for restoration of commuted portion of pension
after 15 years. On an average, a small number of pensioners attain the
age of 75 years. As such, most of the pensioners are deprived of the
benefit of restoration of pension.
AIRF, therefore, requests that
the period of 15 years may be reduced to 12 years so that some more
pensioners could get the benefit of restoration of commuted portion of
pension.
In this connection, it is pertinent to mention that the Fifth CPC had also recommended to reduce this period to 12 years.
Item No.8Sub: Enhancement of age related to additional basic pensionThere
has been a demand from certain Pensioners Associations! Pensioners
Samaj on the issue of enhancement of pension on attaining the age of 65,
70, 75 and 80 and so on by 5% every time.
Presently, age related enhancement in pension is admissible to the pensioners having 80 years of age completed.
As
all are well aware that, a handful pensioners survive up to the age of
80 years. As such, majority of pensioners are unable to get the benefit
of enhanced pension.
AIRF, therefore, requests the government to
take a positive view to reduce minimum age limit from 80 to 65 years for
giving the benefit of enhanced
pension.
Source : ALL INDIA RAILWAYMEN’S FEDERATION (AIRF)
[http://airfindia.com/AIRF%202013/Agenda%20items%20on%20Pensionary%20Benefits_19.05.2013.pdf]
