JAIPUR DEVELOPMENTS...

              nithin_pb@yahoo.in              

Last night I slept well.  Tired I was.  You know, Rajasthan High Court orders had brought no relief to an average pensioner.  For him, it meant the beginning of a new chapter.  A chapter all about SLP.  Now nothing more remains to be discussed.  Only SLP.  That will be a long waiting.  All of us will be helpless spectators.  Since I felt, I have nothing more to be done in the days to come, I thought of retiring early to bed last night and sleep well.

I had pointed out in my last post, it is difficult to convince a lower court (Jaipur Bench, in our case) after Supreme Court had heard all arguments.  No court in India would venture to say something after you have once argued your case before SC.  The minimum requirement was a positive remark from SC that it was a matter the petitioner (respondent in SLP) should argue before HC, in which case, the Judge in the Jaipur Bench would have got the message that the whole matter was to be looked into or so afresh.  This was not the case in the matter of Contempt Petition.  

WHITHER WE ?

And an independent observer had no hope of anything happening to the pensioners’ advantage. So, after the SC orders, we played  "EXTRA TIME" in Jaipur HC.  Again emerged goalless.  Now the all important sudden death goal will come from the Supreme Court.  That will seal our fate.  We have a good case as far as DR is concerned.  …and I am but an ignoramus gentleman as far as other matters are concerned.  So I won’t bother you with my ‘knowledge’ in the subject.  I leave it to the experts and the courts to decide.

No land mark to be seen... what to do now !

But the courts are unpredictable.  In a meeting attended by the aiipa boss Shri K. Natarajan, I had the audacity to say that pension related court cases may sometime bring a ‘landmark’ judgment from the Supreme Court as to the powers of the Board in a government undertaking and we may win in SC, but soon came his reaction “what if a landmark judgment comes” to the contrary!  

CARTOON THAT
INVITED CRITICISM!

Shri SK Majumder appreciated in many words the cartoon published in the blog.  But another gentleman seems to have criticized that “you made a mockery of Asthana’s efforts….”  But it is my feeling that this so called controversy is squarely the Editor’s creation only.  If he (the Editor) had ignored this letter, there should have been Shri Majumder’s letter only. But it looks, you wanted to do justice to criticism also….  Good cartoon do enhance the prestige of the blog.

Tail-piece: "From the rooftops...."  Sury siva has vehemently complained about LIC top management men. "Those who continued at the top most levels of management did not probably murmur or sigh..."  But you know, for survival it was the barest minimum they should have done!  Perhaps Sury Siva may know that Shri TS Vijayan (former LIC Chairman) retired as Mg. Director from LIC and not as Chairman.  Shri Vijayan was a sad man. But he didn't raise a protest though Times of India had announced, he would resign.  He is proved to be correct in his approach; now he is the Chairman of IRDA!

NITHIN_PB

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By the way, your Editor is publishing my articles as a regular column under the title “Between the lines”.  Let me thank him (but there is no indication of any cheque being sent to me!)