Solidarity of NCCPA to Bank Pensioners!

Banks Pensioners Dharna in Jantar Mantar New Delhi on 04.02.2024!

Comrades! Banks Pensioners are staging a Dharna on 4th February st Jantar Mantar of New Delhi. Our NCCPA affiliates All India PNB Pensioners & Retirees Association and All Kerala Bank Retirees Forum.are sitting with them.

Comrades Basavanand (Deputy Secretary General NCCPA & Former SG ITPF) & S.C.Pandey ( Org.Secretary NCCPA & Audit and Accounts Pensioners Association) are requested to represent NCCPA in the Dharna and address our solidarity. 

I request all Affiliates of NCCPA in Delhi to mobilise our members and directly support the banks Pensioners in the Dharna. Kindly take our flags and banners to.show that we are with them. As I have to be present in AIC of P4 NFPE at Kottayam, I miss the programme. 

The Dharna is to oppose the so called ex-gratia instead of updation of Pension etc entered into bipartite settlement by all Unions of serving bank staff. Pension updation was never done in banks for decades and it is our duty to support the just demand!

KR SG NCCPA

NCCPA Emails to Prime Minister for grant of Notional Increment!

 NCCPA Writes to Honourable Prime Minister!

After seeing the confusion created by the OM of Comptroller and Auditor General of India, who normally consulted before issuing any OM by the GOI, the NCCPA decides to write to the Honourable Prime Minister of India personally and to the PMO for intervention in this urgent matter. In addition to seeking the intervention of JCM Staff Side Secretary to write to the Government on this issue, NCCPA is writing directly seeking the intervention of the Honourable Prime Minister too.

Letter was addressed to the Honourable Prime Minister seeking his personal intervention early to put a full stop to the confusion caused. The letter addressed to the Prime Minister and sent by email are placed for the information of our members – KR SG NCCPA

National Coordination Committee of Pensioners Associations

(Registered under TU Act)

NCCPA / Notional Increment Dated 20.01.2024

To

Honourable Prime Minister

Government of India

New Delhi – 110001

Respected Sir,

Sub: Request to issue OM by DOPT for granting notional increment for all eligible Pensioners retired on 30th June and 31st December and vacating the confusion created by Comptroller and Auditor General in his OM – reg.

The National Coordination Committee of Pensioners Associations (NCCPA) would humbly request you to study the following and grant the notional increment to all retired on 30th June since 1.1.2006 and on 31st December since 1.1.2016.

The Government’s stand point was not acceptable to the Supreme Court of India and also to many High Courts of the country and they have all ruled to grant the increment notionally and refix the pensionary benefits for the litigants of 30th June and 31st December retirees. Kindly refer to the judgments of the Supreme Court delivered on 11.04.2023 (Civil Appeal No 2471 of 2023), This judgment of the Supreme Court was delivered after taking various High Court Judgments into consideration. The Supreme Court was categorical in its judgment that it would amount to arbitrariness if the notional increment is denied to Government Servants retired after one year of unblemished service and also would be like punishing the Government Servants for no fault of them. Thus, the Supreme Court was in complete agreement with the verdicts of Karnataka, Madras, Delhi. Allahabad, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Gujarat High Courts. The Government can note that all the intervening applications were allowed and the benefit was conferred by Courts.

Kindly refer to the reply given out to JCM Staff Side Secretary by the Official Side that the issue is receiving attention in the background of different Court Judgments. All of us are eagerly waiting for the favourable stand of the Central Government to be released in the OM of DOPT. But to our shock and disbelief the OM issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General vide its OM on 18.01.2024 stated that the notional increment will be granted only to those who retired on or after 11.04.2023 or 30.06.2023 onwards! The belief that normally all Orders are consulted with the Comptroller and Auditor General by the Government is adding to the confusion.

This NCCPA requests your personal intervention and cause to issue the OM by the DOPT to clear all confusion early and also to grant the notional increment to all including the Audit & Accounts Employees covered by Comptroller and Auditor General by correcting the mistake in that OM.

Thanking you Sir,

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(K.Ragavendran)

Secretary General

Encl: MS Word and PDF format of the letters.

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Let us wait and act!

 30th June Notional Increment!

Comrades! First please understand as to why in Comrade T.Mani & others judgement in Madras High Court is not appealed by Government through SLP in Supreme Court? Why many judgments in various courts were honoured by Government? 

Reason is it is contemplating issue of general OM allowing notional increment to all eligible officials. This is the main reason for the behaviour of Government. Otherwise, we know better, that the attitude of Govt is to drag every one till the last level of all courts. 

Secondly, the letter of Official Side to JCM Staff Side Secretary that the issue is under active consideration of Govt is to be cited. Why such a letter? If the government rejects an issue, it will reject like DA/DP arrears or Other issues. So, let us wait for the final action of govt. 

Please wait! NCCPA will guide you properly at the appropriate time! - KR SG NCCPA-

NCCPA total solidarity to NJCA

 JFROPS (NJCA) Call - NCCPA's Solidarity! 

Confederation of CG Employees has reminded once again that the JFROPS has decided to organize relay hunger fast (24 hours relay) from 8th to 11th January, 2024 in front of Offices in order to mobilize the Employees for the Indefinite Strike for which they have voted earlier in all places. 

The NCCPA calls upon all Affiliates to extend total cooperation by sitting in Dharna enmasse from 10.00 A.M to 6.00 P.M on the days of Fast by JFROPS. Take the banner and flags of NCCPA and Affiliates to the program and extend solid support to the struggling employees against scrapping of NPS and PFRDA. 

NPS should end! OPS should replace!

- KR SG NCCPA-

NCCPA Writes to Chairman United Forum of Bank Unions on Pensioners of Banks!

 

NCCPA Writes to United Forum of Bank Unions!

NCCPA CHQ has preferred a letter to the Chairman of the United Forum of Bank Unions that negotiated the wage settlement with the Indian Banks Association and signed a settlement recently. As per the settlement the serving employees of Banks are getting 17% wage increase but the Pensioners as usual not given any Pension Updation. As the Kerala Bank Retirees Forum wanted the NCCPA to write to the UFBU in the similar way to the letter of AKBRF to the Chairman UFBU, we have responded. Kindly go through the copy of that letter placed in MS Word and in PDF Format for the information of all – KR SG NCCPA

National Coordination Committee of Pensioners Associations

NCCPA/Banks/1                                                                                            Dated 28.12.2023

 

To

 

Comrade Sanjeev K.Bandish

Convenor,

United Forum of Bank Unions.

 

Dear Comrade!

 

We are National Coordination Committee of Pensioners Associations (NCCPA), the Apex body of various Central Government Pensioners Associations and Bank Pensioners Associations like the All-India PNB Pensioners / Retirees Association and All Kerala Bank Retirees Forum etc.

 

We find the acceptance of “Ex-gratia” by the UFBU in the wage negotiations with the IBA is not sorting out the long pending issue of Pension Updation of Bank Pensioners. We know well that ex-gratia means, it will not be calculated for any other purpose including the grant of Dearness Relief. It will be a separate element without any other benefit and therefore, the Ex-gratia is not Pension Updation. More over the ex-gratia is only for the current wage settlement period and not for future. This ex-gratia quantum too to be discussed further in future according to the agreement! The Updation of Pension has been denied to Bank Pensioners from the time of acceptance of Pension as a separate benefit decades ago by the Unions in Banks.

 

We also find that the Bank Employees Unions used to raise the issue of Pensioners during the negotiations always but only to give up the demand and settle the issues of serving employees of Banks only. This time also during the negotiations, 17% of wage raise is achieved for the serving employees of both nationalized Banks and Private Banks but no Pension Updation to Bank Pensioners as usual. This NCCPA is not wrong if we surmise that the acceptance of ‘Ex-Gratia” by the Bank Unions in the UFBU is in nut shell, is a sellout of the Bank Pensioners by the Bank Unions.

In contrast, the Central Government Employees and Pensioners are settled for the identical fitment formula through every Central Pay Commissions, except for the fact that CPCs are constituted once in 10 years instead of once in 5 years as in wage settlement in PSUs including Banks. Moreover, the wage settlement made in RBI and NABRAD are involving Pension Updation of Pensioners of that industry too and we know very well that these institutions are akin to Banks only. Any settlement for Pension updation should cover both PSU and Private Bank Pensioners also, which is clearly absent in the present wage settlement. The habit of including the issue of Pensioners in the Charter only to surrender at the time of wage settlement with the IBA by the UFBU is detested by the millions of Bank Pensioners and others.

 

We request you to respond to our letter and also to reject the wage settlement leaving the Pension updation of Bank Pensioners for decades. Your clear stand should be welcomed by both the Pensioners of Nationalized Banks and Private Banks. NCCPA trusts that the UFBU will take such a stand to satisfy the ex-employees of Banking Industry also.

 

Thanking you,

 

Yours fraternally,

 

(K,Ragavendran)

Secretary General

5th AIC of NCCPA

 NCCPA Holds its 5th AIC

The 5th All India Conference was befittingly held in the Capital City of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) from 13-14, December 2023. The AIC was held in the absence of great leader and our former Secretary General of NCCPA and Confederation Comrade KKN.Kutty, who used to guide our movement in the correct lines. 

The inaugural session of the Conference was presided over by the President of NCCPA comrade Shiva Gopal Mishra during the inaugural session despite his other tasks. The Subjects Committee sessions were presided over by the Working President Comrade S.K.Sharma.

The Reception Committee headed by the Honorable Mayor of Greater Chennai and Comrade P.Mohan as the General Secretary & Comrade C.K.Narasimhan as the Working Chairman has made excellent arrangements to the conduct of the AIC. The toil and the4 work of the Reception Committee volunteers had made it possible to hold the conference in a nice way. The Comrades of Tamilnadu Affiliates of NCCPA and Members need special thanks for their generous contributions which made this AIC possible in the State. The Medical Camp was organized nicely and the role of the Doctor and Comrade Mathivanan ex-SPM MMC Post Office was exemplary in running the camp. 

After the flag hoisting in which the National Flag was hoisted by Comrade M.Kannaiyan Advisor of AIPRPA Tamilnadu and the NCCPA Flag by Comrade S.K.Sharma the NCCPA Working President and respects to the Martyrs Column the AIC was started in Maharashtra Bhawan, Chennai 600007.

Comrade Swadesh Dev Roye WFTU Deputy General Secretary and one of the leaders of CITU inaugurated the AIC. His speech was very much inspiring to all of us with highlights of Pensioners issues and the role of the Union Government in attacking the labour laws and rights of the pensioners. 

Comrade C.Srikumar another WFTU Deputy General Secretary in India and the General Secretary of AIDEF and one of the leaders of AITUC spoke and touched the subjects of Pensioners and how the JCM is taking up those subjects and fighting for the Pensioners. 

Comrade V.A.N.Namboodiri (Patron NCCPA); Janardhan Mazumdar (SG NFPE); C.K.Gundanna (AGS BSNLEU); N.L.Sridharan (GS AISGPF); Dr.S.Sridhar (President AIRRF); K.G.Jayaraj (GS AIBDPA); and K.Ragavendfran (SG NCCPA) delivered their special address in the inaugural session. Comrade Shiva Gopal Mishra delivered his presidential address and concluded the inaugural session. 

The Report was placed by Comrade K.Ragavendran Secretary General in the Subjects Committee session chaired by Comrade S.K.Sharma Working President of NCCPA. Audited Accounts were submitted by ATR Comrade Sadhan Kumar Banerjee. 46 Delegates including the Office Bearers and Chief Executives of Affiliates spoke and intervened on the Report, Accounts and Amendments placed before the house.

After the summing up by the Secretary General Comrade K.Ragavendran the Report was unanimously adopted by the House. The Accounts also were unanimously adopted. The placed amendments and the addition for amending the constitution to include the selection of Patrons as our requirement without part of the Executive were unanimously approved by the House and decided to place the amendments for the acceptance and approval by the Registrar of TU. 

Resolution Committee placed the Resolutions preposed by the CHQ and the amendments given by the Delegates and the same were approved and all the resolutions will be circulated to all the Affiliates and Office Bearers shortly. The Policy and Programme Resolution placed by the Secretary General was also approved unanimously by the House. Resolutions to start a new bank account in the name of NCCPA in a Nationalized Bank in the Joint names of the Treasurer G.Kumar and the Secretary General K.Ragavendran to be jointly operated by them has been approved unanimously. All resolutions in full form will be placed in our website shortly and sent to all Affiliates and Office Bearers also.

The following Office Bearers were elected unanimously:

President: Shiva Gopal Mishra

Working Presidents: (1) S.K.Sharma (Rajasthan CGPA)

            (2) A.K.Ghosh ( West Bengal CCCCGPA)

Vice Presidents: (1) S.Rahman ( Assam CCCGPA)

                 (2) M.L.Gupta [ AI PNB Pensioners/Retirees Association (Regd)]

    (3) T.S.Parameswaran ( Kerala CGPA)

    (4) J.P.Dhandre (Nagpur Postal Audit & Accounts Pensioners)

    (5) Basudev Sen Gupta ( Federation of CGPA West Bengal)

    (6) K.B.Krishna Rao (Karnataka P&T Pensioners Association)

    (7) R.Elangovan (DRPU)

        (8)  Reserved for AIRRF.

Secretary General: K.Ragavendran (AIPRPA)

Deputy Secretary General: (1) K.G.Jayaraj (AIBDPA)

          (2) D.K.Debnath (AIPRPA)

          (3) Basawanand (ITPF)

          (4) P.Lahiri ( West Bengal CCCGPA)

Assistant Secretary General:

Jagmohan Thakur (AI Audit & Accounts Pensioners Association)

T.N.Venkatiswaran ( Kerala CGPA)

C.P.Shobana (AIPRPA)

S.Radhakrishna (AI Audit & Accounts Pensioners Association)

Ishwar Singh Dabas (AIPRPA)

S.Mohandas (AIBDPA)

P.Krishnamurthy ( Telangana APRPA)

M.R.Das (AIBDPA)

Treasurer: G.Kumar (AIPRPA)

Assistant Treasurer: Sadhan Kumar

 Banerjee (West Bengal CCCGPA)

Organising Secretary: (1) B.P.Ganak (AIPRPA)

 (2) S.C.Pandey (AI Audit & Accounts Pensioners Association)

 (3) N.Somaiah (Telangana APRPA)

 (4) N.Nageswara Rao (AIPRPA)

 (5) M.Suresh (AKBRF)

 (6) Manisha Biswas ( AIBDPA)

 (7) S.C.Bhattacharya (AIBDPA)

Internal Auditor:  R.Natarajan (Puducherry Pensioners Association)

Ex-Officio Executive:

Shok Haran Singh [(AI PNB P/R Association(regd)]

Ashok Salunghe (ITPF)

Chandrasekara Rao ( Vizag All CG Employees Pensioners Association) 

Rajasekara Reddy (Defense Officers Pensioners Association)

Kalooram Jingar (Chittodgarh CGPA)

A.Murugesan (DRPU)

M.V.Naik ( Nagpur Central & State Pensioners Association)

K.Radhakrishnan ( Puducherry Pensioners Association)

Suryaprakash ( Coffee Board Pen Assn & Autonomous and Statutory Board Pen Assn)

U.V.Singh ( Ground Water Board Pensioners Association)

Krishna Gopal (Udaipur CGPA)

Nikilesh Mitra (Federation of CGPA West Bengal)

B.M.Sunda (Rajasthan CGPA)

General Secretary Ratlam CGPA

General Secretary Amaravati CGPA

General Secretary Nainital CGPA

General Secretary Rohtak CGPA

General Secretary CLTRIPA.

The AIC unanimously selected the following Patrons NCCPA:

V.A.N.Namboodiri 

Pavitra Ranjan Chakraborti ( CCCGPA West Bengal)

C.L.Mathur (Ajmer Retired Railwaymen Association)

R.P.Sharma (Rajasthan CGPA)

H.N.Joshi ( Ratlam CGPA)

The AIC unanimously approved the following two Associations of Pensioners as our Affiliates from 2024:

All India Retired Railwaymen Federation

National Forum of  Atomic Energy Retirees.

It was decided to refer to Executive the next venue of the AIC after discussions. 

With formal vote of thanks, the AIC concluded.

-KR SG NCCPA-

NCCPA AIC

 NCCPA AIC concludes with resolutions on Pensioners issues / Policy & Programne and unanimous elections!

NCCPA AIC is held at Chennai for two days on 13-14 December, 2023. The AIC started with the hoisting of National Flag by Senior leader and Advisor AIPRPA Tamilnadu comrade M.Kanniyan and the NCCPA flag by the Working President comrade S.K.Sharma. Amidst strong slogans renting the air, martyrs column was respected by all leaders and comrades.

Comrade Shiva Gopal Mishra NCCPA President presided over the inaugural session and the Working President Comrade S.K.Sharma presided the Subjects Committee. Comrade P.Mohan GS Reception Committee welcomed all and invited to dais and the inaugural session stared with comrade  C.K.Narasimhan Working President of Reception Committee address.

Comrade Swadesh Deb Roye WFTU Deputy General Secretary inaugurated the conference. Comrades C.Srikumar WFTU Deputy General Secretary; V.A.N.Namboodiri Patron NCCPA; Janardhan Mazumdar SG NFPE; C.Gundanna AGS BSNLEU; N.L.Sridharan GS AISGPF; Dr.S.Sridhar President AIRRF; K.G.Jayaraj GS AIBDPA; and K.Ragavendran SG NCCPA delivered special address. Then comrade Shiva Gopal Mishra delivered his presidential address. 

The report submitted by the SG; Audited Accounts submitted by the ATR; Amendments proposed for the constitution; Election of office bearers and the discussion of 46 Delegates and OBs and Chief Executives; and the Summing up by the Secretary General are all spectacular and elections and all other issues are unanimous.

The AIC elected the following Patrons and the Executive Cimmittee  comprising the following Office Bearers:

NCCPA Patrons:

1. V.A.N.Namboodiri (AIBDPA)

2. Pavitra Ranjan Chakraborti  (WB CCCGPA)

3. C.L Mathur (Rajasthan Ajmer Retired Raliwaymen)

4. R.P.Sharma ( Rajasthan CGPA)

5. H.N.Joshi ( Ratlam CGPA) 

Office Bearers: 

S.G.Mishra- President 

S.K.Sharma - WP ( Rajasthan CGPA)

A.K.Ghosh - WP ( WB CCCGPA)

S.Rahman - VP (Assam CCCGPA)

M.L.Gupta - VP (AIPNBP/RA)

T.S.Parameswaran - VP (Kerala CGPA)

D.K.Dhandre - VP - Nagpur Audit & Accounts

Basudev Sen gupta - VP (Fed WB CGPA)

K.B Krishnarao - VP (Ktka P&T)

R.Elangovan - VP - (DRPU)

Reserved for - VP- (AIRRF)

K.Ragavendran  - SG (AIPRPA)

K.G.Jayaraj - Dy. (AIBDPA)

Debnath - Dy (AIPRPA)

Basawanand - Dy (ITPF)

P.Lahiri - DY ( COCCGPAvWB)

Jagmohan Thakur - ASG AI Audit & Accounts

T.N.Venkatiswaran  - ASG - Kerala CGPA

Shobana - ASG AIPRPA

Radhakrishna - ASG - AI Audit & Accounts

Ishwar Singh Dabas - ASG - AIPRPA

S.Mohandas - ASG - AIBDPA

P.Krishnamurthy - ASG Telangana APRPA 

M.R.Das - ASG AIBDPA               

G.Kumar - TRR - (AIPRPA)

Sadan Banerjee - ATR (COCCGPA WB) 

B.P.Ganak - OGS ( AIPRPA)

S.C.Pandey - OGs (AI Audit @ Accounts)

Somaiah - OGS (Telangana APRPA)

Nageswararao - OGS (AIPRPA)

M.Suresh Bank - OGS (AKBRF))

Manisha Biswas - OGS ( AIBDPA)

S.C.Bhattacharya - OGS (AIBDPA)

Auditor: R.Natarajan Puduvai Pen Assn

34 Total 

Exofficio in Executive:

1) Shok Haran Singh - AI PNBP/RA

2) Ashok Salunghe - ITPF

3) Chandràsekara Rao - Vizag CG Employees Pensioners

4) Rajasekhara Reddy - Defense Officers Pen Assn 

5) Kalooram Jingar - Chittidgarh CGPA

6) A.Murugesan - DRPU

7) M.V.Naik -Nagpur Central State Pen Assn

8) Radhakrishnan K - Puducherry Pen Assn

9) Suryaprakash - Coffee Board & Autonomous/Statutory Board

10) U.V.Singh - Ground Water Board Pen Assn

11) Krishnagopal - Udaipur CGPA

12) M.V.Naik Nagpur Central & State Pen Assn

13) Nikilesh Mitra - Federation of CGPA WB

14) B.M.Sunda - Jaipur CGPA

15) Ratlam CGPA GS

16) Amravati CGPA GS

17) Nainital CGPA GS

18) Rohtak CGPA GS

19) CLTRIPA GS

Affiliation approved in AIC:

1) Atomic Energy Pensioners

2) AIRRF

The AIC is completed with the vote of thanks and National Anthem.

- KR SG NCCPA-