The information received by Mr C S Murty
under the RTI Act reveals the
following information:-
Total number of Pensioners/Family
Pensioners who have been paid 40% Interim Relief: 15286
Total amount of 40% IR paid : Rs 27,23,17,955
Average IR paid per pensioner= Rs 17815
It will be worthwhile to compare the number of
pensioners who have received the 40% IR with the total number of pre-August 1997 retirees as at 1/8/2003.
The following table gives the statistics
of pre-August 1997 retirees as at 1/8/2003 and 20/2/2009 as per the information
obtained under RTI Act:
This
indicates that out of 21762
as many as 5264 constituting
24.2% have expired resulting in addition of as many family
pensioners less a small number where
spouses might have predeceased the retirees.
The number 15286 may include this
number plus the family pensioners of
those retirees who had expired after1/1/1986 but before the notification of the
LIC Pension Rules. So there is a gap of 6476 pensioners, presumably
family pensioners who have been left out of payment of IR.
As per the information received from
Jaipur Divisional Office, about payment of IR ,out of 138 pensioners to whom IR was paid, as many as 28
constituting 20.9% have received single
digit amounts towards IR.These
pensioners must be presumably family
pensioners. Besides the above there are also family pensioners who have
received IR due to the regular pensioners from 1/8/1997 upto the date of their
death thereafter and who might have received the single digit family pension IR.
59 out of 138 pensioners who received IR are family pensioners constituting
42.75% for Jaipur Divisional office.
The corresponding percentage for
Chandigarh Divisional office as per the
data obtained by Mr C S Murty, is 46.15% out of a total of 260 pensioners who
received IR.In case of this Division 21.9% of the pensioners(presumably all
family pensioners) received single digit
amount towards IR.
Out of the 15286 pensioners
to whom payment was made, if we apply the percentage of 40% as
the percentage of family pensioners, we can assume that about 9000 regular
pensioners must have received the interim relief as per LIC’s faulty
calculation. Out of the remaining 6286(
mostly family pensioners) about 3000 must have received single digit amounts and
the remaining more than 3200 family
pensioners must have also
received the IR due to the deceased
retirees from 1/8/1997 upto the date of their death in addition to the
single digit family pension IR.
The average IR per pensioner works
out to Rs 17815 for the Corporation as a whole, while it is Rs 26403 for Jaipur
Divisional Office pensioners and Rs 20459 for Chandigarh Divisional Office
pensioners.
· The safe conclusion from the above data (although inadequate)
will be that LIC has not complied with the SC Order dated 31/3/2016 in respect of at least 30% of
eligible pensioners and that among those who were paid interim relief, family pensioners constituting about 40% would have received single digit amounts
towards family pension IR and list.
· The other conclusion that can be
drawn is that the non-application of para 3A of Appendix IV is responsible for short
payment of interim relief amounts received
by regular pensioners and family pensioners, resulting in a huge deficit
ranging from 70% to 90% in case
of regular pensioners and almost
99.9% in case of family pensioners.
Now let us wait to see what LIC has
to state in its affidavit to be
submitted to the Delhi High Court.
Greetings
C H Mahadevan