NCCPA - URGENT NOTICE TO ALL AFFILIATES
Dear Comrades!
As pointed out by some comrades the minor corrections are carried out in the Declaration. All Affiliates are requested to download this Copy of Declaration in their letter-pad and submit it on 3/4/2025 Please – KR SG NCCPA\
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Affiliates -Please Note the above Declaration and Instruction please – KR
NATIONAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS
3.4.2025
Declaration
adopted by the demonstrating pensioners on 03.04.2025 and submitted to the
Honourable Prime Minister through the Head of the Department / Head of office
of CG Office in States & Districts:
The Action of the Central Government
on 25.03.2025 to adopt the bill along with the Finance Bill in the name
of ‘Validation of the CCS (Pension) Rules and principles for expenditure on Pension Liabilities from the Consolidated
Fund of India’ to dupe the Members of Parliament is very
retrograde. The opposition to the effort was steam rolled by the Government in
Parliament and the purport of the bill to usurp the right to classify the
pensioners community into different groups based on their retirement and thus
deny them to the benefits of future pensioners is actually tramples the ruling
of the Supreme Court in the landmark judgment of D.S.Nakara case which ruled
that any attempt to divide the same class of pensioners by artificial cut-off
date and thus deny the benefit to a section of pensioners is violative of
Article 14 of the Constitution.
The bill actually robs all the
pensioners and the action of the Government to attack the senior citizens are
detestable.
To announce a Central Pay Commission and before appointing it adopting a bill
to deny any right to the past pensioners through the Pay Commission is most
retrograde. The Honourable Finance Minister tried to bring solace to the
pensioners community by saying that the existing pension will not be affected by the
distinctions created amongst the past pensioners; but she did not say that through
the 8th Pay Commission the past pensioners will not be
compartmentalized and the past pensioners also will be eligible to the rights
of the future pensioners like 7th CPC.
The DoP&PW organized a virtual
meeting on 29.03.2025 at 10.30 A.M. The Staff Side including the Staff Side
Secretary and many leaders of the Pensioners Movement were present.The Pension
Secretary repeatedly saying that the validation was only to regularise 6th
CPC times and the present Government will continue the polices of 7th
CPC and that no change of policy is contemplated, He will issue a clarification
also on behalf of Pension Ministry. But the doubts persist and there is no need
to revise the validation time from 1972 onwards. The Pension Secretary had no
answers to this question.
This demonstration of the Pensioners
organized by the NCCPA and its Affiliates and other Pensioners Associations
vehemently condemns the action of the Union Government forced by the
liberalization and pension reforms and the community of Pensioners have no alternative but to turn to the streets for
justice.
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