It is gathered that
as of now a list consisting of 1266 pre-August 1997 retiree members of the Federation
has been submitted to the Central Office by the Federation. From the above circular
it is clear that the Federation is
not quite hopeful of a positive
response from LIC .
It is gratifying to note
that “Should LIC fail to implement fairly and appropriately, we will be
vigilant and bring matters to the attention of Hon'ble Supreme Court at the
right time.”
But I am sure that
the Federation is aware that that the right time should be the earliest time
before 23/9/2015 which is now hardly 22 days away.
The best opportunity for
the Federation to expose before the Supreme
Court the arbitrary approach adopted by LIC to avoid
complying with the Supreme Court’s order of 7/5/2015 will be available on
7/9/2015 when the IA filed by Chandigarh petitioners comes up for hearing. The Federation’s counsel
should also vehemently submit before the
Supreme Court the audacity of LIC in not only not complying with the SC order
of 7/5/2015 within the deadline of 6 weeks, but also its high- handedness of
adding its own arbitrary conditions for the Federation submitting the list of
eligible members over the head of the Supreme Court order. If the Federation’s
counsel does not use this golden opportunity to drive home our points
forcefully in this regard, ‘the right time’ will not arrive in time and the Federation’s having
submitted the list would turn out to be a wasteful exercise.
Let us hope that the
Federation would definitely not like its eagerly waiting members to suffer by default.
With greetings,
C H Mahadevan