This is with reference to your mail in the PC suggesting formation of a United Front with the retirees from the nationalised banks etc etc.
Earlier in the day Mr Angurajan sent a mail written by Mr M P Subrahmanian proposing grand alliance of all the retirees from the financial institutions in the country to fight for the updation of the pension.
To my mind,any such laudable scheme will remain a non starter. I have my reasons to think like that.
It all happened in distant past. I was invited to video viewing London Philharmonic Orchestra performance of Western Classical Music. We sat in pin drop silence watching 100 odd persons with as many instruments playing symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven.
In half trance after the overwhelming performance, we spread in the vast lawn of the house for the cocktails. An English gentleman among the guests caused a flutter by saying "Such orchestras are not possible in India.You Indians don't know how to work in unison!".
This changed the thought line in the assembly. People got into serious discussion and agreed most of our leaders are petty-minded dissipating their energies trying to prove their supremacy over their peers.Our religiosity is based on symbolism only. And so on and on. These impressions stuck to my memory and have been confirmed with subsequent experiences over the past 50 years.
Reverting to your suggestion I feel occasion to contemplate such joint action will arise after 23rd Sept. Before that,we have to decide:-
A. If it is desirable to file a brief explanatory note in the Chandigarh HC as orally suggested by the Bench.
B. Whether or not will it help if we send a suitable note to LIC, giving some exact calculations specifying the correct amounts payable under the HC Judgment.
C. Will it become necessary to file a COC case in the SC after 18th June with LIC response known? Will such case be initiated by Jaipur only?
D. Will it be worthwhile and legally possible for the Federation to get itself I pleaded
in the case in the SC?
E. Preparations for 23rd Sept jointly with no feeling of 'I know better'.
Your attempt to join Bankers starts about this stage.
Regards
S N Chhabra
In half trance after the overwhelming performance, we spread in the vast lawn of the house for the cocktails. An English gentleman among the guests caused a flutter by saying "Such orchestras are not possible in India.You Indians don't know how to work in unison!".
This changed the thought line in the assembly. People got into serious discussion and agreed most of our leaders are petty-minded dissipating their energies trying to prove their supremacy over their peers.Our religiosity is based on symbolism only. And so on and on. These impressions stuck to my memory and have been confirmed with subsequent experiences over the past 50 years.
Reverting to your suggestion I feel occasion to contemplate such joint action will arise after 23rd Sept. Before that,we have to decide:-
A. If it is desirable to file a brief explanatory note in the Chandigarh HC as orally suggested by the Bench.
B. Whether or not will it help if we send a suitable note to LIC, giving some exact calculations specifying the correct amounts payable under the HC Judgment.
C. Will it become necessary to file a COC case in the SC after 18th June with LIC response known? Will such case be initiated by Jaipur only?
D. Will it be worthwhile and legally possible for the Federation to get itself I pleaded
in the case in the SC?
E. Preparations for 23rd Sept jointly with no feeling of 'I know better'.
Your attempt to join Bankers starts about this stage.
Regards
S N Chhabra