It is a pity that we are getting only Taarikh pe taarikh.....taarikh pe taarikh....taarikh pe taarikh....taarikh pe taarikh...milti hai sirf taarikh....lekin insaaf nahin milta My Lord... insaaf nahin milta.. milti hai sirf taarikh...
Mr SP Sood has rightly echoed the sentiments of all pensioners. But is there any alternative than to h ave patience and wait for the final outcome. SAYED UNKA AAKHRI HO YEH SITAM -- HAR SITAM YEH SOCH KAR HUM SEH GAYE. However all said and done, we have to unitedly continue to support Sh KML Asthan/AIRIEF in the legal fight till we achieve our goal. Why I am referring to LEGAL FIGHT because there is no other way in the present regime to get our just demands which have been granted to us by the SC/ High Courts. Other methods had not got us anything on pension.
In 2010 I had sent an appeal to about 600 MPs of both houses of Parliament. Except one Rajaya Sabha MP none had even acknowledged my mail-which is attached from my archives, for your ready perusal and you will find it quite forceful and interesting. Since we will have General Elections next year some one can write to MPs again, if need be.
I pray we may not have to do so again.
With best wishes & regards.
HK Aggarwal
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Dear Sir,
Sub: LIC PENSIONERS CRY FOR JUSTICE and their just demands are:
(1) 100% neutralization of DR(dearness relief) to those LIC pensioners also who retired before 1.8,1997.
(2) Up gradation of pension consequent upon revision of Pay Scales (as is done for
Central& State Governments Pensioners).
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RETIRED EMPLOYEES(PENSIONERS) OF LIC OF INDIA, WHO HAVE LAID SOLID FOUNDATIONS OF COUNTRY’S LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANY AND ALSO ONE OF THE BIGGEST FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FEEL PROUD OF ITS GROWTH AND TREMENDOUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE CENTRAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS IN DEVLOPMENT OF HOUSING.INDUSTRY, ELECTRICITY, ROADS, WATER SUPPLY, SEAWRAGE ETC.ETC. Total Assets of the Corporation amounted to Rs 1152057 crores as on 31.03.2010.
WHILE LIC HAS GRACIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED THE FRUITS OF ITS STRONG FINANCIAL BASE, TO THE EXISTING EMPLOYEES BY WAY OF HEFTY INCLEASE IN EMOLUMENTS, PERKS & A RECENT BONANZA OF DAILY LUNCH COUPONS (which we do not resent), BUT NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE TO REMOVE THE GLARING ANOMOLIES AND DESCRIMINATION IN THE PAYMENT OF PENSION & DR TO THE PENSIONERS WHO HAVE BEEN CRYING FOR JUSTICE FOR THE LAST OVER 15 YEARS.
EVEN THE RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT FAVOURABLE ORDERS TO IMPLIMENT LIC BOARD’S OWN RESOLUTION IN THIS REGARD HAS BEEN IGNORED AND LIC (AT THE BEHEST OF THE Ministry Of Finance, GOVT. OF INDIA) PREFERED TO GO IN FOR APPEAL before Division Bench , RAJASTHAN HIGH CCOURT, JAIPUR .
FURTHER MOF DID NOT CARE FOR ITS OWN GOVT. LITIGATION POLICY OF NOT TO PREFER APPEALS, IN MATTERS RELATING TO PENSIONERS, NOR THEY LISTENED TO VARIOUS DELEGATES OR EVEN THE ADVICE OF GREAT ILLUMINARIES OF THE STATUS OF A ILLUSTRIOUS RETIRED SUPREME COURT JUDGE HON’BLE V R KRISHNA IYER. HIS DO LETTER DATED JULY 17, 2010 ADDRESSED TO THE FINANACE MINISTER IS APPENDED BELOW FOR YOUR KIND PERUSAL.
HUNDREDS OF PENSIONERS-SENIOR CITIZENS HAVE ALREADY DIED AND MANY ARE IN DECEMBER OF THEIR LIFE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVING IN THESE DAYS OF UNCONTROLLABLE PRISE RISE AND HIGH COST MEDICAL TREATMENT.
TO MITIGATE PENSIONERS SUFFERINGS, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF LIC OF INDIA HAD PASSED A RESOLUTION AS BACK AS ON 24 NOV.2001 ALLOWING 100% neutralization of DR(dearness relief) to those LIC pensioners also who retired before 1.8,1997 AND Up gradation of pension consequent upon revision of Pay Scales (as is done for Central & State Governments Pensioners). LIC HAD SENT THE RESOLUTION TO THE MOF, GOVT. OF INDIA FOR APPROVAL (though the same was not required).
BUT INSPITE OF RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT RECENT DIRECTIONS TO LIC TO IMPLIMENT ITS OWN ABOVE SAID RESOLUTION, LIC, INSTEAD OF HONOURING THE HON’BLE HC ORDERS, PREFFERED TO GO IN FOR APPEAL ( of course at the behest of the MOF GOVT.OF INDIA) AND THEIR APPEAL IS LYING WITH HON’BLE DIVISION BENCH OF RJASTHAN HIGH COURT, JAIPUR FOR HEARING/ADMISSION.
YOU BEING THE ELECTED REPRESNTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE HAVE A MORAL DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP PEOPLE PARTICULARLY THE SENIOR CITIZENS LIKE LIC PENSIONERS WHO ARE SUFFERING AND HAVE BEEN DIFFERENTIATED ONLY BECAUSE OF CALLOUS ATTITUDE OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE, GOVT. OF INDIA. KINDLY EXERT YOUR GOOD OFFICES AND PERSUADE THE MOF, GOVT. OF INDIA FOR NOT ONLY WITHDRWING THE APPEAL BUT ALSO TO IMPLIMENT LIC BOARD RESOLUTION AND HELP THE PENSIONERS-SENIOR CITIZENS WHO ARE AT THE FAG END OF THEIR LIVES, SO THAT THEY GET JUSTICE AND MPs ALSO FULFILL THEIR OBLIGATIONS.
SOLCITING THE FAVOUR OF AN EARLY ACTION.
WITH REGARDS FROM LIC PENSIONERS-SENIOR/SUPER SENIOR CITIZENS.
H K AGGARWAL, 556 SECTOR-54, MOHALI,CHANDIGARH.
O9855002556.
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July 17, 2010
My dear Pranab Mukherjee,
I have a vague recollection of having a big public meeting in Calcutta years ago. I wonder if you have recollection of me or that meeting.
I write this letter for a public cause so necessary for a class of people who need most support from Government. I am happy you have been sworn into high office as Finance Minister of India. You have done us great and in a country of deprivation and indigent it is important that a man of your vision and socialist mission should become vibrant ‘to wipe every tear from every eye’ if I may quote from Nehru’s historic tryst with destiny speech over Independence Day on 15.8.1947. May I disclose to you the pathetic condition of a class of people arbitrarily alienated from the beneficial stream of pensioners in the LIC. What is arbitrary is unconstitutional as a Constitution Bench has held in the Supreme Court in Maneka Gandhi’s case (Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 597).
Here is a case of arbitrariness which I dare say has been overlooked by your ministry and must be set right once it is discovered. The older the age of the pensioner the greater the need for liberal pension since age invites infirmity. I know this to my cause at age 95 by way of income tax benefit. The LIC pensioners are one integral group and cannot be divided into different classes. Date is an irrelevant factor when alteration in pension was made. The Supreme Court again in a weighty judgment observed that the date of variation cannot be the basis of differential pension (Vide Nakara v. Union of India, AIR 1983 SC 130: (1983) 1 SCC 305: (1983) 1 LLJ 104].
Facts which has lead to this anomaly are as follows:-
It has been alleged by the LIC Board where a resolution passed by them on 24.11.2001 rectifying the disparity in the calculation of Dearness allowance to pensioners of the LIC before and after 31.7.1997, has been kept in abeyance for want of financial sanction from your ministry. The court had directed the LIC to implement the resolution of the Board dt. 23.11.2001 stating that the corporation
cannot hold different criteria for granting D.A based on the cut of date i.e. 31.7.1997. The LIC is also not able to approach the court again as per the provisions of the national litigation policy announced by your ministry on 23.6.2010.
I, therefore feel that your ministry in all fairness instruct the LIC to implement court judgment, simultaneously giving financial concurrence for its implementation by your ministry.
I am enclosing the papers connected with this received by me with a prayer that immediate action in the matter is called for as a humanitarian and patriotic duty which otherwise will adversely affect the old aged pensioners who may be deprived of their benefits if prolonged further.
In the light of my submission above and out of consideration for humanism, justice and constitution fairness kindly accord financial concurrence to the court order. Surely these unfortunate section as they draw their pension on a just basis will bless you and your Government. I too will. Statesman like action without delay will be a boon to the forsaken pensioners.
With regards,
Yours sincerely,
V.R. KRISHNA IYER
Encl : as above
To
Shri. Pranab Mukherjee
Hon’ble Minister for Finance
Government of India
New Delhi