NATIONAL
CO-ORINATION COMMITTEE
OF
PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c Feroze shah Road,
New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 30.5.2016
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Dear Comrades,
We send herewith a copy of the NJCA Circular letter dated 27th May, 2016. The same is
self-explanatory. You could see there-from that the Government might
not positively react to the demands placed by the NJCA over the recommendations
of the 7th CPC.
Simply raising the minimum wage by a few rupees without any consequential
change in the fitment formula or pay matrix will not bring about any tangible benefit.
The revision of the minimum wage along would benefit only those who are likely
to be recruited to the cadre of MTS in future. As you are aware, the 7th CPC had not accepted any demand of the
employees. It is beset with dissenting notes in many chapters. The
fight between the personnel in the organized Group A Services and all
India Services had triggered such dissenting note on the part of the Member who
retired from the IAS. A significant section of the Secretaries to various
Departments, we were told, were against any revision over the recommendations
of the 7th CPC.
In any case, we are to await the outcome of the discussions at the NJCA meeting
scheduled to be held on 3rd June,
at New Delhi.
Coming to the issues pertaining to the Pensioners, we must recall that the 7th CPC had rejected almost all the
demands unanimously placed before them by the Pensioners organizations. While
tendering oral evidence the Staff Side had inter alia pressed for the parity
for the past pensioners before the Commission, especially in the background of
the granting of one rank one pension to the Defence Personnel. It is
ironic to note that the Defence Ministry which had piloted the demand of the
Ex-service men for one rank one pension i.e.parity between the past and present
pensioners has now taken a stand against such parity for civil servants.
No personnel either in the organized Group A services or All India Services
would stand benefited by the present recommendation of the 7th CPC except a few as most of them were
in receipt of almost time bound promotion in their career. The modified
parity one must recall has only benefited the upper echelons in the
bureaucracy. One can understand that the Govt. refusing to make
improvements over the suggestion made by a Commission. But it must be
most intolerable when the Govt. refuses to implement a recommendation which was
the outcome of a persistent presentation jointly by almost all the beneficiaries.
The plea advanced for non acceptance of the recommendation is the alleged
impracticability due to the non availability of the relevant records.
Should the pensioner suffer for the reason that the concerned department of the
Government has not kept the records properly? It is the most callous approach
and must be resisted with all the force that we can command. We cannot afford
to have this situation to develop. We are certain that most of the individual
pensioners would be able to provide the requisite information needed to
consider the first option in the pension fixation to the concerned department
and most of the Departments would be able to verify the same with the available
documents with them. We must however await the decision of the NJCA in the
matter.
In the meantime, all affiliates will take such action needed to mobilize the
pensioners and undertake a serious educational campaign.
With greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
KKN.Kutty.
Secretary
General.
Copy
of National Joint Council of Action circular letter dated 27.5.2016.
