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Saturday, November 22, 2014

RESOLUTION SANS SOLUTION!‏


RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE FEDERATION OF RETIRED CLASSI OFFICERS’ 
ASSOCIATIONS ON 10/11/2014

The Resolution No 3 adopted by the Federation in all the collective 
wisdom of the EC members reiterating the commitment to secure 
periodical increase in pensions in line with every wage revision is 
indeed laudable, only it has arrived a bit too late in the day.
The decision to formulate a ‘demand on sound basis at the appropriate 
time’ seems meaningless at this late juncture. If the Federation 
chooses to wait with its fingers crossed for the Supreme Court 
verdict on the Civil Appeals esp. one arising out of 654/2007, there 
are two possible alternate outcomes:
1. The Supreme Court dismisses the Civil Appeals of LIC.In that 
event there will be no need for the Federation to formulate any 
‘demand’.
2. If the Supreme Court, God forbid, delivers a verdict allowing 
LIC’s Appeals, formulation of any ‘demand’ by the Federation will be 
a futile and meaningless exercise.
If the Federation had really any serious commitment in this regard, 
the formulated demands should have been in place long ago and also 
been reflected in the Writ Petition filed in Delhi High Court 
through an enlargement of the prayer for point-to-point upgradation 
of pension for all eligible pensioners, not merely for removal of DR 
anomaly and 100% DR neutralisation for pre-August 1997 retirees. 
THUS THE RESOLUTION, IN MY VIEW, PROVIDES NO SOLUTION!



With greetings,
C H Mahadevan