NATIONAL CO-ORINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c Feroze shah
Road,
New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 12th
August, 2016.
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Dear
Comrades,
In
the background of the setting up of the Committee to go into the feasibility of
implementing the Option No. 1. As per
the Government notification on pension matter, the following members of NJCA
met the Secretary Pension who is the chairman of the said committee today.
1.
Coms.
Shiv Gopal Misra,
2.
Com.
M. Raghaviah,
3.
Com.
K.K.N. Kutty and
4.
Com.
Sreekumar.
From the
discussion it has become evident that the Pension department is still
persisting with their stand that the
recommendation of the 7th CPC giving alternative option to 2.57
multiplication formula is not possible to be acted upon for want of requisite
documents for verification of the claim of the individual pensioners. The have
still not assessed the magnitude of the so called problems and rely upon the oral statements
made by the heads of departments. The delegation has requested them to ascertain
the actual number of persons in whose cases the requisite Service Books might
not have been kept by the concerned department. The delegation pointed out to them that the
Finance Minister had categorically stated of the acceptance of the
recommendation and the only thing the committee was expected to sort out the
problems of implementation to the satisfaction of everybody concerned. They made it clear to the Pension Secretary
that once the Commission has recommended for any one alternatives, the option is inevitable and exclusion of any
one proposal will make the option incapable of tenability. To deny Option No. 1. Is, they pointed out,
would be an incongruity. In any case,
the delegation made it clear to the Secretary Pension and his officers that
staff side would resist the move vehemently.
We have been
given to understand by many organizations and individual pensioners that various other document exist in the
Government to verify the claim of the individual pensioners, who wanted the
option No. 1. To be exercised. The
Government would be able to rely upon those documents for the purpose of
verification. The Secretary Pension has
been told that they must issue for calling up for option from the individual
pensioners, with a request that their
applications must accompany with documentary evidence to establish their claim. Once the applications are received, the
concerned Departments would be able to assess in whose cases the same is
capable of verification and in whose cases records were not available. In the case of the departments and individual
pensioners, in whose cases verification
of the claim becomes difficult, alternate methodologies can be evolved to
entertain and approve the claim.
We would very
much like to know from the organizations and individuals who asre in the
knowledge of pension related matters to make suggestions to us so that in the next
round of discussions, we would be able to present the case perfectly. Kindly write to us only through the e mail
addresses given below and send sms to the following number so as to enable the
undersigned to access the suggestions made.
Phone No. for sms:
98110 48303
It is clear
from the discussions that the Pension department is afraid of litigations as
anomalies are bound to be arising and
therefore would shut out its possibility by not implementation the
recommendations of the 7th CPC.
The Committee will meet formally with the staff Side within a
fortnight’s time. We request our
affiliates to write to us immediately of their opinion in the matter.
We enclose
herewith the letters written by the Convenor NJCA to the Government as also the
Circular letter issued by him today.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
Copy of NJCA letters
Copy
of NJCA Circulat No. NJCA/2016/7th CPC Dated August 12, 2016
Dear Comrades,
We have been receiving communication from various
organizations as also from individual employees after the promulgation of the
notification by the Government on 7th CPC recommendations. Most of these communications had been to
express the anxiety and in some cases anger too over the delay in setting up
the high level committee, assured by the Group of Minister to review the
minimum wage and multiplication factor.
We have been pursuing the
said issue on a day to day basis and we are fully appreciative of the
apprehensions expressed in many of these letters. Since the decision making in the Government
is a long procrastinated matter involving various levels and departments, such
delays are not uncommon. But we have
been informed as to why the assurances held out have not been translated into action.
We have also noted that in
the absence of the JCM functioning especially at the Departmental levels of
various Ministries, the department specific anomalies and demands are not being
subjected to any meaningful negotiations with the respective
organizations. We have addressed the
Cabinet Secretary to hold a special
discussion with us on this subject immediately.
Copy of our letter is enclosed.
On 12th August,
2016, we have met the Secretary Pensions to convey our strong resentment over
the decision to allow the Option No. 1 given to the pensioners to be
implemented subject to feasibility. We
have reiterated that while we are open
to discussion as to the methodology of verification of the claims of individual
petitions in respect of Option No.1, we would not be able to countenance of the
non implementation of the recommendation of the 7th CPC on the
flimsy ground of non availability of records.
The available NJCA
members met today at Delhi to review the
situation in the background of the feeling conveyed to us through letters from
various organizations. We have after
taking note of the anxiety expressed and the ongoing discussions with various
authorities over the setting up of the
high level committee to wait up to the end of this month before we embark upon any action for the setting upon of the said high level
committee. The employees may be
apprised of this decision through the requisite campaign programme.
In the meantime, we must
endeavour to support the one day strike action
slated for 2nd September, 2016 for which the call has been
given by the Central Trade Unions
(including independent Federations)
to the best of the ability of the respective organizations as the objective of the strike is the
betterment of the working people in our country.
7th CPC Anomalies
All the Constituents
Organizations are requested to forward the various anomalies arising out of the
implementation of the 7th CPC notification / CCS (RP) Rules 2016 to
the Staff Side office with brief / illustration etc. within in 15 days from
today so as to enable us to study and forward the same to the Anomaly committee
for settlement.
With greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
Sd/
(Shiva
Gopal Mishra)
Convener
Copy of NJCA letter
No.NC-JCM-2016/C.S. (PM) dated August 12,
2016
The Cabinet
Secretary,
Govt. of
India and Chairman,
National
Council JCM
Cabinet
Secretariat,
Rastrapati
Bhawan,
New Delhi,
Dear Sir,
We
recall the discussions we had
with you on 7th June 2016 when inter-alia we brought to your kind
notice the growing discontent of the employees on the following two issues
which were the subject matter of discussions on very many occasions
1.
JCM
functioning – Non convening of meetings at the Departmental levels, consequent
non availability of a forum for discussion and negotiations for Unions /
Federations
2.
Compassionate
Appointments in Departments other than Railways
JCM functioning
The
functioning of the JCM especially at the Departmental level was virtually
halted, when the Government promulgated a new set of recognition rules in 1993
to cover the non industrial employees i. e. for employees in the Department
other than Railways and Defence. It took nearly a decade and half to
operationalise the new recognition rules and during the same period the
functioning of JCM was virtually stopped at the departmental levels. This
in-turn resulted in non-discussion and non settlement of various Departmental
specific demands and issues, emanated from the flawed recommendation of 5th
and 6th CPC. Now that the 7th CPC recommendations would
be taken up for implementation, the need for a forum to discuss these issues,
especially Departments specific matters need not be emphasized.
Compassionate Appointments
The
untenable restriction imposed by the government i. e. 5 percent of the vacancies for Compassionate
Appointments in Departments other than Railways has created innumerable
difficulties and arbitrary
discrimination. The very fact that the said government orders have no sway to
half of the civilian employees makes the orders discriminatory and bereft of
any merit. The specious plea of the Government that the said orders were issued
on account of a directive from the Supreme Court was later found to be
fallacious. On various occasions, the
Staff Side was assured of a review of the scheme. The scheme requires simplification and has to
be made non discriminatory too.
We
want the above two issues to be discussed at your level and reach a settlement.
We shall be grateful if you will afford us an opportunity to have such a
discussion on a date convenient to you.
We shall also be thankful if you can indicate the date of the meeting atleast
15 days in advance.
Thanking you,
Yours
faithfully,
Sd/
(Shiva
Gopal Mishra)
Secretary
Copy of NJCA letter addressed to finance
Minister
Shri Arun
Jaitley,
Hon’ble
Finance Minister,
Govt. Of
India,
North Block,
New Delhi
Sub: Setting
up of a high level committee to review the Minimum Wage Multiplication Factor.
Ref: Our
letter of even No. dated 26.7.2016. ‘
We solicit your kind reference to the discussion, the
representatives of NJCA had with you in the presence of the Honourable Home
Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh and the Railway Minister, Shri Suresh Prabhu and
the MOS (R) Shri Manoj Sinha on 30th June, 2016.
We were expecting a
quick action on the part of the Government to operationalise the
assurance of setting up a high level Committee to go into the Minimum wage,
Multiplication factor etc. However, we
are disappointed that even after a lapse of more than a month no order has been
issued by the Government in this regard.
The employees, as you are aware, were angry over the arbitrary determination
of the minimum wage by the 7th
CPC by mutilating the Dr. Aykhroyd formula and also the propornate
multiplication factor .
We, therefore, appeal to
you that the concerned authorities may be asked to expedite the issuance
of orders setting up the committee and finalization of the Report within the
available time of remaining three months.
Thanking
you,
Yours
faithfully,
Sd/
(Shiva
Gopal Mishra)
Secretary