Let me congratulate you first upon rising popularity of your blog with your very special efforts for value additions like beautiful cartoons and redesigning of blog with colorful presentations proved by crossing of One Million Hits along with a new record of One Lac Hits in almost one month span against your previous average of two months. True you had to lose many sleepless nights.
Regarding your editorial, I do not agree with you on a few issues raised therein.
Providing a Platform with free press policy is all right. But L.I.C.Pensioners Blogs are being run by Editors who happen to be a part of L.I.C Pensioners Community and in case of favorable Supreme Court Verdict regarding Pension Up gradation (being denied by GOI/ L.I.C with creation of artificial cut-off dates of retirements with every wage revision taking place at five years interval which is a clear violation of Articles 14 & 16 of Indian Constitution and Supreme Court famous Judgement in D.S. Nakara Case), You despite being Editor are also likely to be a beneficiary resulting in payment of arrears.
So my request is let your blog stay as a platform for L.I.C/Banks.Pensioners only and not for identified or unidentified well wishers of GOI/L.I.C. We can not endorse a line of any AW since Senior Advocates like A.M. Singhvi and Pinky Anand are being paid a very heavy fee for this job again at the cost of our valued Policyholders.
Please revisit your decision of uploading AW 2nd Version on your blog. We agree that final decision remains at your editorial desk only. We can only express our views on your blog and nothing more can be done at our level.
Regards,
B.R.Mehta
CAN this be a consideration for a work?
* When the Editor was invited to visit LIC Central Office (as an LIC employee) he refused to submit a TE Bill although Central Office had informed the Divisional Office that his visit had been treated as official and on-duty.
On another occasion, LIC HOUSING FINANCE asked him to submit a bill for a WORK STUDY conducted and report submitted to them. He refused to submit a bill, saying the Editor was honoured by the LIC HFL assignment.
** For an article written in a Kolkata journal, your Editor had received honorarium but they were asked to convert it to subscription.
***A Chief (Personnel) asked the Editor to visit Chennai and talk to Shri NM Sundaram, Gen. Secretary, AIIEA and submit a confidential report about Shri Sundaram's views on certain matters. He stayed in a Guest House, slept on a Sofa (no room was available) braving mosquitoes for two days but no official bill was submitted.
He lost his promotion the same year of LIC honouring him by publishing his Photograph and a brief resume in Yogakshema of the contributions done by him but he did not represent in the usual manner for a promotion by writing a representation letter.
- The then Sr.DM at Kozhikode Division who later retired as ED (Marketing) Shri MS Natarajan, M.Com.,LL.B., FFII (who always claimed that there are "a few letters" after his name and considered himself to be a great intellectual) did not like the 'VIP profile' of the Editor, seeing the visiting dignitaries asking for 'PG Gangadharan', or the dignitaries spending some time with this odd man. Shri Natarajan and the Reporting Officer Shri KKP Namboodiri (a culinary expert who entertained all visiting dignitaries from Zonal Office with choicest home made vegetarian food, a person about whom a whole article could be written) thought that Editor did not meet the 'high standards' set by both of them). They were Review and Reporting Officers when the Editor missed promotion as AO.
- Shri MS Natarajan also did not attend a function to release 'Initiative' edited by PG Gangadharan held in Chairman's cabin in Mumbai which was attended by, besides the Chairman Shri Narasimhan, MDs Shri Salunkhe, Shri Jambusaria and Shri Bajpai (all of whom later adorned the post of Chairman in LIC) although Shri Natarajan was in Mumbai and was invited to attend the function.
A person of this nature perhaps may not have any fascination for money. We are sorry, we had to write all this when the attraction of "payment of arrears" was seen. We may add, the Editor is a post 1997 retiree. -Ed.)
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* Order treating trip to Mumbai as official visit and on duty was received a little late. By the time he had availed of LTC which he did not want to cancel for his own reasons.
** He has always accepted official cheques for honorarium for writing articles in 'Yogakshema'.
*** The Chief (Personnel) had personally asked the Editor to visit Chennai and meet Shri NM Sundaram. Official formalities did not deter the Editor from executing the request of the Chief. He just moved to Chennai, talked to Shri Sundaram for two days and returned to Calicut to send a report thru Sr.DM Shri Murali.
(REVISED AT 8.55PM)
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* Order treating trip to Mumbai as official visit and on duty was received a little late. By the time he had availed of LTC which he did not want to cancel for his own reasons.
** He has always accepted official cheques for honorarium for writing articles in 'Yogakshema'.
*** The Chief (Personnel) had personally asked the Editor to visit Chennai and meet Shri NM Sundaram. Official formalities did not deter the Editor from executing the request of the Chief. He just moved to Chennai, talked to Shri Sundaram for two days and returned to Calicut to send a report thru Sr.DM Shri Murali.
(REVISED AT 8.55PM)