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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

LIC PENSIONERS – DO YOU KNOW?


That Government of India claims to have in fact ‘rejected’ LIC Board Resolution dated 12.01.2001?

That the existing Pension structure with the Dearness Relief component was the outcome of sustained negotiations with the employee Organizations which ‘ought not to have been reopened’?

That the existing classification between two classes of pensioners (pre-97 and post-97 retirees?) is entirely reasonable in the circumstances?

If you don’t know so far, please know now – because Union of India SAID SO on oath, in the four SLPs filed FIVE YEARS after the impugned Judgements were delivered by the High Court of Rajasthan, Jaipur Bench. Copies of the SLPs are served today on the parties in the proceedings before the Supreme Court.

Friends, it is simply appalling that the Republic of India’s Central Government can make such brazenly false statements before the country’s Apex Court with complete impunity. When I read and re-read these averments which are nothing but damn lies and malicious twisting of facts, I felt an inexplicable chill down my spine. What type of adversary are we fighting with? One for whom truth has no value?

The new developments are least expected. Till now we tasted the strategy of an insensitive Corporation. We now have before us a monstrous leviathan, in the Union of India, out to mercilessly crush the genuine aspirations of the pensioners whose role in building the mighty Corporation, is indisputable.

We have to sharpen our tools, pool fresh thoughts and launch an all-out attack on the UoI – LIC combine. May God give us the strength to do so.

M Sreenivasa Murty
                               
Hyderabad