'KANNUR' PENSIONER IN A VICTORIOUS MOOD....

He has won !

It was an interesting sight.  A pensioner from KANNUR DISTRICT in Kerala was found searching the old posts of LIC PENSIONER CALICUT (Chronicle) at 8.30 PM yesterday (11-8-2013). That was Nithin's regular column 'Between the Lines' comments titled "STORY OF A GREAT VICTORY CAMPAIGN, POOR PENSIONERS STANDING IN THE QUEUE TO TAKE ARREARS CHEQUES AND ALL THAT...". Nithin's comments on 22-4-2013 which LIC PENSIONERS CALICUT carried  are reproduced:-

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ONE PERSON TO THE OTHER: "...so-and-so died."

THE OTHER PERSON: "Achhah!"

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The other day I told an LIC pensioner: "Supreme Court dismissed petitions....."

LIC pensioner: "Good news.  Now when we will get pension and arrears ..."  He kept on asking me more questions.

This friend was not prepared to believe that Shri Asthana had submitted an interlocutory petition and the same was dismissed. He has not heard the word 'interlocutory' etc.  To him, dismissal meant, dismissal of LIC's SLP only. He is too old. He is a simple man... an average pensioner.  His mind is so tuned to think that he will interpret anything and everything to his advantage only.Dismissal meant for him, dismissal of SLP only. He wants money.  Badly so. He has been told he will get it soon.

When I heard him, I remembered what I once read in 'LICPENSIONERSCHENNAI'. A pensioner was writing that he worked in different capacities...as Assistant, SH, HGA and also as a Supdt. etc. for various periods and was enquiring if anybody has got a program to workout his arrears...  

• This is all the result of the "GREAT VICTORY" celebrations conducted especially in the South after Asthana's case was confirmed and LIC's appeal was rejected by Division Bench of Jaipur Bench.  Since then we had only victory celebrations.  Innocent, old and otherwise weak - physically and mentally too - pensioners were told time and again that victory is round the corner, that they should be prepared to get their arrears,etc. (One pensioner even resigned from a particular union because he did not find any prospects of getting the promised pension amounts!)