NATIONAL CO-ORINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c Feroze shah
Road,
New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 22.12.2015.
Website: www.nccpahq.blogspot.com
Email. nccpahq@gmail.com
Shri Devendra Chaudhary.
Secretary, Pension & Pension welfare
Lok
Nayak Bhavan,
New Delhi,Delhi,110001(e. mail: secy-arpg@nic.in)
Dear Sir,
The “National Co-ordination Committee of Pensioners
Associations” is the apex organization of the various Central Government
pensioners Associations viz, the pensioners Associations in the Railways,
Defence, and Postal, BSNL and erstwhile Telecom department and other Central
Government Departments. The need for
such an all India organization was felt by the Pensioners Associations
functioning either at the regional or State levels or at the Departmental levels
to channelize the common grievances of the Central Government pensioners in the
country. In the founding convention that
was held at Jaipur, Rajasthan, in 2008, Com. U.M. Purohit, the then Secretary,
Staff Side National council and the President of the All India Railwaymen
Federation was elected as the Patron along with
Shri V.A.N.Namboodiri, the erstwhile Secretary General of the BSNL
Employees association. Shri R.L.
Bhattacharya, former (Officiating) Secretary General of the National Federation of Postal
Employees took over as the President and Shri S.K. Vyas, a long time Secretary General of the All India Audit
and Accounts Association and a Standing Committee member of the National
Council, JCM, right from its inception was elected as the first Secretary
General. All these leaders were veterans
of the Trade Union movement of the Central Government employees and had the
rich experience of formulating the demands and issues of the employees
including their retirement benefits before the successive Pay Commissions.
Due to the sad demise of both Shri. U.M. Purohit and
Shri S.K.Vyas in succession, and due to the failing health of Shri R.L.
Bhattacharya, the all India Conference of NCCPA which was held at Kolkata
elected Shri Shiva Gopal Misra, the Staff Side Secretary of the JCM. National
Council as the President and Shri K.K.N.
Kutty, former Secretary General of Income-tax Employees Federation for many
years and presently a member of the Standing Committee of the National council
as the Secretary General. Shri R.L.
Bhattacharya and Shri V.A.N. Namboodiri were requested to be the patrons to
help and advise the functioning of the NCCPA.
The NCCPA in its functioning as an apex organization
of all Central Government Pensioners in the country during its short period of
existence has been able to channelize
the grievances and demands of the pensioner in general before the
authorities. The NCCPA’s memorandum to
the 7th Central Pay Commission stand testimony to this fact. The Staff Side, JCM which submitted an
elaborate memorandum on all issues concerning both the working employees and
pensioners had almost adopted the views and suggestions made by the NCCPA in
respect of retirement benefits. Not only
did it try to present the demands of the pensioners before the Government and
other agencies effectively, it could through frequent interaction with its
affiliates bring home the points of view of the Government expressed through
the official side and the constraints of the Government in meeting out certain
demands despite appreciating the genuineness of them. In fact it functioned as
an effective conduit, beneficial for all concerned. The
democratic manner of the functioning of the NCCPA gives room for all to express and advance
their views and take decisions on the basis of a consensus.
We write this to bring to your kind notice that while
many of our affiliates and the State level organizations do receive
communications from the Ministry of Pension asking them their views on matters
concerning pension, the NCCPA was not favoured with a formal communication to
enable us to present before the Ministry the consensus view of the Pensioners
at large. Recently the Department of
Pension solicited the views of the pensioners on the question of linking Aadhar
Card with pension payment and their suggestions on the recommendations of the 7th
CPC. While it is highly appreciated that
the Government and the Department of Pension solicit the views of even smaller
organizations, we strongly feel that it would have been equally good, if not
better, to elicit the views and opinions of the Apex organizations like NCCPA whose
submission by virtue of its very functioning shall have a pan-Indian touch;
tempered by reasonableness and
generality of approach. It is the avowed
endeavor of NCCPA to build bridge between the Government and the Pensioners and
discuss the issues and problems in a conducive atmosphere and arrive at
conclusions mutually beneficial.
In this background, May we request you to kindly
register our name in your list of Pensioners organizations to seek out our
opinions and views on various pensioner-related matters, invite us formally for
attending the seminars, conventions, conferences and meetings, organized by the
Department of Pension in frequent intervals.
Thanking you and in anticipation of a favourable
response,
Yours faithfully,
K.K.N. Kutty,
Secretary General.
Copy to :
Smt.Vandana Sharma,
Joint Secretary,
Department of Pension &
Pensioners welfare
Lok Nayak Bhawan
New Delhi. 110 001
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