Dear Sir,
Greetings.
I would like to submit
the following remarks to the LIC
Pensioners'
Chronicle. I hope you
find it suitable for publishing
on the website:
Is anybody listening?
I
have been following the LIC Pensioners’ Chronicle for quite a long time
now, and I feel obliged to make the following observations:
1. If we lose the case in SC, everything is lost.
2. Even
if we win the case, the LIC will merely ask the boss (GOI/ MOF) for
instructions, who will try their utmost to avoid implementation of the
order (as has been our experience), in which case, we shall continue to
fight in all possible ways.
3. LIC
and GOI have no sympathy for pensioners. The top management of LIC is
busy oiling the boss in MOF. The MOF is stubbornly bent upon depriving
the pensioners of their legal and rightful due.
Why
then are our leaders (of all the associations) meeting the officials of
LIC and GOI/MOF? Are they hoping to change the latter’s attitude? Or
are they trying to inject in them any modicum of sympathy or ethics?
I
think it is necessary to ignore the LIC/GOI/MOF altogether, and that
any communication regarding pension should be made through lawyers only.
Is anybody listening?
Sunil Kumar Mitra, a 2000 pensioner."
Best wishes,
Sunil Mitra