"36. The amount of minimum pension shall be
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(c) Rs 1100;- per month in respect of employees belonging to Class I, Class II,Class III, & Class IV who have retired or died on or after the first day of August,1997;
(d)In case of any wage revision in future, the amount of minimum pension payable to an employee shall be determined by the Corporation corresponding to the index in which the scale is linked.
(The Corporation has determined that the amount of minimum pension shall be Rs 1480/- per month in respect of employees belonging to Class I, Class II,Class III, & Class IV who have retired or died on or after the first day of August,2002)."
Based on this,LIC might have also revised the minimum pension in respect of employees belonging to Class I, Class II,Class III, & Class IV who have retired or died on or after the first day of August,2007after the wage revision notification of 2010, although I am not readily aware of the revised minimum pension amount.
But, reading between the lines, these provisions lay down a principle of revision of minimum pension after every wage revision corresponding to the index in which the scale is linked.
When this principle is followed for minimum pension,there is no reason why upgradation of regular pension and family pension should not be effected by LIC what with, the Jaipur SJB judgment,LIC Board Resolution and the Punjab & Haryana High Court judgment refused to be stayed by the Supreme Court.
These provisions can come in handy when the cases are argued on 12/11/2014 in the Supreme Court.
With greetings,
C H Mahadevan