AERWA News Letter 2016

AERWA NAn Organ of ATOMIC ENERGY RETIREES WELFARE ASSOCIATION

Recognized by

Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare

Regd. No.MAH/527/97/Thane Dt. 5

Regd. No. F/5819/Thane Dt. 31.10.97 Bom. Pub. Trust Act, 1950

Volume 17 - Issue No.6

Opinions and views expressed in articles and editorials need not necessarily be th

Rs 5/- Single Copy-Complimentary to AERWA members

From managing Editor 1

Important, Aims and Objectives 1

Hum like Bees: Guest Article 2

AERWA News: Office Inauguration 4

Pensioners’ day & Picnic: Announcement 5

AERWA – Association and People: Sp. Article: 6

Medical Division replies to AERWA 7

Status of court cases- October 2016 8

Platinum Club, Sashasra Chandra Darshan,

B’Day Greetings

8-10

Welcome New Members 10

Donors’ List, Obituary etc 10

Important Tel Numbers, AICPI Table,

Announcements, Appeals and Notices

11

From Managing Editor:

Dear Member,

Warm greetings for the festive season of the

year. On behalf of AERWA and on my personal

behalf, I wish you very happy Diwali, the festival

of lamps. Diwali is also characterized by beautiful

Rangolis. This year’s greetings come to you with

one such Rangoli.

AERWA had been striving hard for getting

office premises for its functioning more

efficiently for quite some time. The office

premises, thanks to DAE and DCSEM, was finally

inaugurated on September 21, 2016. You will

observe the change of address now on top of this

page. A brief report of inauguration function

appears elsewhere in this issue of News Letter.

A brief history of AERWA –from its

establishment in 1997 till the day its office was

inaugurated also appears on the following pages.

Wish you a good reading. Mohan Chougaonkar

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NEWS LETTER of ATOMIC ENERGY RETIREES WELFARE ASSOCIATION

No.MAH/527/97/Thane Dt. 5-9-97 Soc. Regn. Act 1860

F/5819/Thane Dt. 31.10.97 Bom. Pub. Trust Act, 1950

Office: Project Square, Opposite SBI,

Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400 094, T. No. 25559994

Web site: https://aerwa.wordpress.com

e-mail AERWA: aerwa12@gmail.com (Affiliated to Bharat Pensioners Samaj, Delhi)

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Opinions and views expressed in articles and editorials need not necessarily be those of AERWA

R.N.I.REGN.NO. MAH/ENG/2000/706

Important:

1. AERWA now operates from its new office.

Timings: 10AM -12 PM every Monday,

Wednesday and Friday. Tel. No. : (91)

02225559994.

2. AERWA has started a library in its office

premises and members are requested to

donate popular books (in good condition) for

AERWA library.

Aims and Objectives of AERWA-highlights

1) To continue the emotional integration of all

retired scientific, engineering, technical and

administrative staff members of the Department

of Atomic Energy.

2) To represent to the concerned authorities

updated social security needs of the retirees and

family pensioners.

3) To strengthen the hands of existing

recognized apex bodies of similar associations of

retirees of other governmental organizations.

4) To utilize the rare combination of talents and

expertise available among members for the

welfare of general public through social service

using the association as a platform.

Happy Diwali

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Guest Article: HUM LIKE BEES

The Bee…

Bee, an insect that collects nectar and gives us

wax honey and royal jelly, is not at all unknown

to humans. Apart from honey bee, there are as

many as 20,000 species of bees in the world

classified into 250 genera in 9 families. However,

we know very little about this god’s creature.

Bees immediately capture our attention. They

existed on our planet 56 million years before our

primitive ancestors evolved. They have been true

friends of man and have never done him any

harm. The evolution, development and

diversification of world’s flora (over roughly 120

million years) owe their success to bees. It is bees

that promote the production of most grains,

fruits, greens, vegetables, berries nuts etc., so

essential to man and animals. Bees are

responsible for the flowers that enliven and

brighten the meadows, gardens, valleys etc. The

honeybees, for example, are worth infinitely

more than the items (honey, bee wax, royal jelly

etc.) they produce. We are just beginning to

understand the complex bee-flower relationship

(or the co-evolution of one plant species

intimately associated with single species of bee).

Naturally, poets, writers, philosophers have

euologised the bees; many myths, legends, fairy

tales, have evolved around the fascinating life

and habits of bees.

Bees recognise landmarks, possess an internal

compass, note and record movement of the sun

as an orientation clue and even detect planes of

polarized light to know the position of sun during

cloudy days. One of the most significant

discoveries in animal behaviour during the 20th

century was that by the Austrian scientist Karl

von Frisch who was awarded Noble prize in 1973

for revealing to the world about the way bees

communicate precisely among themselves, after

a forage activity (scouting for available flowers

and pollen) through a series of ‘dances’ –“circular

dance” for information on feed ground within a

distance of 50 meters and “tail-waggling-dance”

for materials available farther than 50 meters

and upto 6 km about the food source, the

quantity, distance, the position etc. Different

races of honeybees have their own distinct

‘dialect’ of dance language.

A honeycomb is a marvel in architecture. It

may have about 50,000 to 80,000 bees, mostly

comprising worker bees, which live up to 6

weeks. It is an organization where each bee is a

vital part of the whole. The worker bee rears,

nurses and cares for the brood; keep and

maintain the cells in the hive. Queen bee lays

15,000 to 20,000 eggs during a season (about

1500 a day) in carefully laid out cells. The worker

bee visits the cell with nectar 1200 to 3000 times

a day to feed the larvae. The honey, wax, royal

jelly etc., are all required to make the comb and

feed the larvae. The worker bee’s brief life is full

of toil and ceaseless work for her kin. The bee is

more honoured than other animals, not because

she labours, but because she labours for others.

Over 5000 years, man has gradually perfected

the science of ‘robbing’ bees of the honey. Sage

Dattatreya learnt the lesson –‘Do not hoard like

bees’- which was limited to his seeing a man

collecting honey from a bee-hive. Having

laboured for so many days, they were robbed of

their collection. The Sage felt that hoarding is a

cause of misery and sorrow.

The taste of honey depends on from which

flower the bee has collected the nectar, because

each bee collects nectar only from a specific

flower. Shri Ramakrishan Paramahansa wanted

people to have singleness of purpose like bees

and higher goals like flowers.

… and the Yoga-Bhramari

The humming sound that the bees create is an

extremely soothing sound to the mind and is

similar to the sound of melodious bell either in

temple or church. When one enters the (Hindu)

temple, one usually sounds the bell hanging at

the entrance. (Certainly, it is not a calling bell,

announcing one’s arrival to the God in the

sanctorum!). The real significance is to put one’s

awareness on the sound emanating from the

bell; the sound ceases and tapers off into mild

reverberations [m….m….m…..m…m…). When the

mind (with closed eyes) picks up the last feeble

reverberations, it becomes totally calm and

settled, ready to meditate on the deity inside.

Even in churches (during the mass or important

functions) the big bells are struck. By putting

one’s awareness on the reverberations, calmness

of mind, necessary for meditations on spiritual

aspects, is obtained.

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Stories abound in Hindu mythology about the

(physical) strength of bees. In Devi

Bhagavatham, there is a story of one Arunasura,

who was making the life miserable on Earth,

because he had the boon that he will not be

killed by any conceivable creature. To put an end

to him, Devi commanded the bees hovering

around the flower She was holding to kill the

Asura. The world became dark with a swarm of

bees; the bees penetrated the bodies of Asuras

and annihilated them. Later the Devi was

worshipped as Bhramari Devi.

Right from our birth-to the last moment of

death the breathing activity goes on even

without our realising it. The state of mind-

happiness, tension, negative or positive emotions

is closely related to the rhythm of breathing and

also affects the breathing pattern. Conversely,

one can be in a steady state of mind in peace and

harmony with the given surrounding by

consciously controlling one’s breathing pattern.

On the physiological level, breathing supplies us

oxygen and removes the toxic gases resulting

from metabolic activities. On a subtler level, it is

a medium by which life forces called variously as

prana, chi etc., enters and pervades our body.

Human lungs have 3 lobes on the right and 2

on the left, to store sufficiently large amount of

oxygen required for one’s activity. But most of

the people use only the top lobes of the lungs

and the bottom ones are not at all activated in

their life time; in many cases they are in a

pressed condition due to wrong postures and

poor breathing practices. In order to take

advantage of the full capacity of the lungs, one

should breathe deeply. We generally breathe in

deeply but, breathe out fast. However, in order

to breathe in fully, the breathing out should be

longer than the breathing in, so that the lung is

totally emptied. This also promotes relaxation

and mental poise.

Ironically, the smokers are the best

practitioners of pranayama, especially the aspect

of breathing out longer. They inhale the smoke,

allow it to pass and fill their lungs [holding the

breath, called kumbhaka] and breathe out slowly

and steadily, sometimes in installments and

some, even making rings of smoke etc.

(controlled breathing out !).

In order that we get the most benefit, we

should breathe out like a smoker (without

indulging in the habit of smoking!), feeling fully

conscious that the cool air we breathe in

completely occupies and fills the lungs [all the

lobes].

The act of breathing out longer can be

developed by practicing the Bhramari pranayam-

�ामर� �ाणायाम- (Bhramar means a bee;

regulated breathing is pranayam). This breathing

practice is also good for singers and can be

developed into a form of meditation to calm

down the mind.

Bhramari pranayam (the simpler form while

breathing out) can be practiced in any sitting

posture sitting on the ground with legs crossed

or even on a chair (in office or at home). Keeping

the backbone erect (and not resting it against

any support) is beneficial. (One can practice it

under any situations while waiting for a bus, for

example, if no one is around to watch you

curiously!). The eyes must be gently closed

during the practice. The palms are facing

upwards, little, ring and the middle fingers are

gently in closed condition; the thumb and the

index finger are kept joined (as in chin mudra) .

Take a deep breath; while breathing out

slowly, make a humming sound, by gently closing

the glottis (in the throat). The sound produced

will resemble m…m…m…m…m…, as if one is

pronouncing the final part of the mantra OM.

Breathe out as much as possible; wait a moment

and breathe in slowly and breathe out producing

the sound. Put total awareness on the sound,

feel the vibrations in the face (especially below

the jaws and on the cheeks). One can also feel

the vibrations at the tip of the closed fingers

[thumb and index finger]. It is very important to

observe the silence just after breathing out

totally (when the sound ceases) and before

breathing in. After practising this exercise thrice

(to get optimal effect), observe the changes

taking place in the body (which is totally relaxed)

and the mind (which is calm). Slowly open the

eyes, keep them semi-closed and slowly come

out of this practice.

The practice is called Brahmari pranayam,

because the sound produced during the

breathing out resembles the sound produced by

a bee (or honey bee).

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While doing Bhramari pranayam, it would be

beneficial if the characteristics of bees such as

singleness of purpose, their team spirit (including

communicating the knowledge), selfless and

untiring activity for the community, their

usefulness to biodiversity, animal species and

man etc., are contemplated upon with a resolve

to imbibe them in one’s personality.

Let’s, hum like bees

Dr B. Venkataramani, was Head,

Analytical Chemistry Division, BARC,

Trombay. He is a Nature enthusiast

and a trained Yoga teacher and Reiki

Master.

This is the second article on Yoga based on the habits

of non human creatures in the nature. We will call this

series now as ‘Nature Watch-2; the first one appeared

in previous issue on Makarasan by the same author.

Noble Prize 2016: The Nobel Prize in Physiology

or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Yoshinori

Ohsumi "for his discoveries of mechanisms for

autophagy".

AERWA News:

Almost nineteen years after the formation of

Atomic Energy Retirees’ Welfare Association, the

office premises of the association was finally

inaugurated, thanks to the persistent efforts of

AERWA office bearers and to DAE for kindly

allotting the premises. A small inauguration

function was organized, on September 21, 2016

which was attended by the members of presen

MC as well as about 15 AERWA founding

members and office bearers of earlier MCs.

Founder member and the first Secretary of the

association, Shri K V Raghavendran inaugurated

the office by cutting the ribbon and breaking the

coconut at the door.

The inauguration function was followed by the

felicitation of all the office bearers of previous

committees in AERB auditorium.

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, it would be

beneficial if the characteristics of bees such as

spirit (including

communicating the knowledge), selfless and

untiring activity for the community, their

usefulness to biodiversity, animal species and

man etc., are contemplated upon with a resolve

Let’s, hum like bees.

This is the second article on Yoga based on the habits

of non human creatures in the nature. We will call this

2; the first one appeared

in previous issue on Makarasan by the same author.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology

or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Yoshinori

"for his discoveries of mechanisms for

Almost nineteen years after the formation of

Atomic Energy Retirees’ Welfare Association, the

f the association was finally

inaugurated, thanks to the persistent efforts of

DAE for kindly

allotting the premises. A small inauguration

function was organized, on September 21, 2016

which was attended by the members of present

MC as well as about 15 AERWA founding

members and office bearers of earlier MCs.

Founder member and the first Secretary of the

association, Shri K V Raghavendran inaugurated

the office by cutting the ribbon and breaking the

inauguration function was followed by the

felicitation of all the office bearers of previous

In his welcome speech, Dr. Manchanda,

President AERWA expressed his gratitude to the

veterans who conceived the AERWA as an

institution nineteen years back and assured that

present MC will carry forward their work

vigorously with the functioning of the office. He

also highlighted the present activities of the

association particularly with respect to the

representation made to authorities on CHSS

issues. He specifically mentioned the dedicated

efforts made by Dr. S. P. Garg to help large

number of DAE pensioners whose pensions were

not revised for more than a decade due to lack of

proper records. He also highlighted the plans to

initiate social activities of AERWA and exhorted

members to come forward and donate

generously for the cause.

The past office bearers, viz. Presidents,

Secretaries and the treasurers were then

felicitated by Dr. V K Manchanda and Dr. B M

Misra respectively.

The highlight of the function was the

reminiscences and advices for future activities by

Shri Raghavendran, Dr. Garg and Shri Pant.

Shri Raghavendran, shared his experiences,

especially the early days with limited resources

but high on enthusiasm and commitment of

members. In his short talk, he paid his rich

tributes to Shri D S Nakra, to whom all

pensioners should be indebted for his

outstanding initiatives.

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In his reminiscences, Dr. S P Garg, former

President AERWA described many successful

initiatives of AERWA such as getting office space,

recognition in the portal by DPPW and revision of

pension of many retirees/family pensioners.

Shri R. C Pant, former President, AERWA spoke

on the new initiative in collaboration with IWSA

on assisted living or Rugnasahayak and exhorted

the members to come forward and make this

initiative a feasible option for the benefit of

senior citizens.

The programme was concluded with a vote of

thanks by shri K T P Balakrishnan, Secretary

AERWA and singing of National Anthem.

The function was anchored by Dr. Mohan

Chougaonkar.

For full report, visit https://aerwa.wordpress.com

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AERWA Announcements: 1. AERWA will be celebrating Pensioners' Day

on Saturday, 17th December, 2016

between 9:30 hrs & 2 P.M. Chief Guest: Dr

Baldev Raj, Director, National Institute of

Advanced Studies, Bangalore and Former

Director, IGCAR, Kalpakkam; He will speak

on “Energy Foresights, Security and

Sustainability". Venue: AERB Hall A,

Contribution: Rs 150/-

2. AERWA Plans to organize a one day Picnic

in Mid Jan., 2017, Details will be made

available on Pensioners' day, Contribution

~Rs 750/- Special Article: AERWA – Journey of 19 years

Post & Telegraph is among oldest department

established by British in India to streamline their

rule. No wonder Pensioners of this department

organized themselves initially informally and

later as P & T Pensioners' Association in the year

1947 at Poona (Present Pune). During the

General Body meeting in 1975, membership was

opened to all central Government pensioners.

Later GB in 1991 adopted present name All India

Central Government Pensioners Association with

H. Q. at Pune. Among many luminaries, NV

Gadgil (ex-Central Minister) and Jayantrao Tilak

(MP & Editor of Kesari) were Patrons of the

Association. On December 17, 1982, Supreme

Court of India gave a landmark judgment about

pension “Pension is neither a bounty nor a matter

of grace depending upon the sweet will of the

employer. It is not an ex gratia payment, but a

payment for past services rendered”.

Shri Marathe, President Bombay Unit of ‘P&T

Pensioner Association’ was in touch with BARC

retirees and would be retirees to induce them to

join their association. However, Shri KV

Raghvendran who retired in 1994 had discussion

with few colleagues like P K Vaze (Retd. 1995, P-

29), M P Sankaran (Retd. 1998 P-11), P P

Gangadharan (Retd. 1999 P-1360), KKB Nair

(Retd. 1998, P-211), N S Kimsen (Retd. 1993 P-

318), Dr. Narendra Sharma (Retd. 1995, P-8) etc.

which eventually led to the formation of an

Association of retirees from DAE itself,

presumably as work culture as well as issues of

Radiation Workers were considered to be unique

for DAE Dr (Mrs) A.M.Samuel, Associate Director,

Medical group, BARC was the Chief guest on the

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historical inauguration day, May 31,1997. It

was presided over by Shri P.P. Gangadharan,

Retd. Jt Controller of Accounts , BARC. The venue

was AECS no 1.

The team of dedicated volunteers frequently

met in “Creek View CHS, Udaygiri CHS, ARWA’s

(Anushakti Nagar’s office, Vrindavan) etc.

Organizational issues like defining ‘Aims &

Objectives’, adopting by-laws , enrolling

members, registration of association and PAN no

etc. were initiated and accomplished in very

short period and were adopted in first GBM held

on May 31, 1997.

Shri K V Raghavendran was instrumental in

completing the formalities related to Registration

with timely help from S V Pawagi (Retd. 1992, P-

83) who was staying near Charity Commissioner’s

Office at Thane. Initially, it was intended that the

association will work only for the pension related

matters of the retirees. However, to broaden the

scope of activities, the association was named as

Atomic Energy Retirees’ Welfare Association

(AERWA).

AERWA has always given an utmost

importance to emotional integration of all retired

scientific, engineering, technical and

administrative staff members of the Department

of Atomic Energy. It has always been arranging

at least three meetings of members. Pensioners’

day and Annual day are both a one day functions

wherein a few informative talks are arranged by

the Association, followed by a lunch and then

discussions on various topics of the interest of

retirees. Another activity that the members have

thoroughly been enjoying is the annual picnic.

Various places around Mumbai have been visited

during the last few years. Non existence of the

office premises was always a hindrance in

smooth functioning of the association, but it did

not deter the regular managing committee

monthly meetings at different locations. For

several years the venue was the office of the

Geetanjali CHS, Vashi. Since 2010 these were

being held regularly at BARC Training School

Hostel (TSH). From September 2016, the venue is

AERWA office at Project square, Anushaktinagar.

The bi-monthly AERWA News Letter is very

important activity that has kept members riveted

like a family. It was earlier printed in Vashi and

currently in Govandi. It was ably edited by Shri

Raghavendran till 2014. He wrote on various

subjects like politics, films, social problems,

literature and current issues. They were always

connected to pensioners in the end. S/Shri

Sankaran and Venkitraman used to gather the

news and contents. The first AERWA News Letter

was published within months of registration.

Late Shri V N Venkatraman and Late Dr. BL Gupta

were always there to give the final shape to

editorial and other features in the NL using just

introduced PC PageMaker. Shri S B Jaoglekar as

well as Shri M C Barve kept the spirit of AERWA

sky high. Making it monthly would have made

posting NL easy and cheap as postage required

for monthly periodical is 25p/50p via-a-vis Rs.4

and above for bimonthly and quarterly etc. It

was not possible to do so due to financial

resources and other difficulties. All kudos to the

dedicated team of AERWA for its continuous

publication and posting all over India that

required writing articles, visiting press, editing,

publishing, writing address labels and posting at

designated post office. Dr. S P Garg was

associated with NL as composer since 2008 and

after the sad demise of Shri Venkitaraman he

took over the reins of NL in 2013 and passed on

the baton to the present ME in 2015. Shri Pant

was the editor during 2014-16.

Another important activity of AERWA is

keeping the database of members up to date.

Initially, Shri P K Vaze took care of this activity,

which was taken over by Dr. S P Garg in 2013.

One of the features of AERWA News Letter, of

greeting the members on completing 75 years of

their age, is possible only due to the meticulous

maintenance of the AERWA database. AERWA

also sends the members greetings on completing

Platinum Jubilee of their age. It is possible only

due to the constant update of the database and

sincere work by Shri PK Vaze as well as Shri MC

Barve in arranging the timely dispatch of the

certificates.

AERWA website was very ably handled by Dr.

M R Iyer right from the conception until very

recently. This has been giving the relevant

information to the members simply by a click.

Recently, the website has been thoroughly

revamped using better techniques. The AERWA

website has been migrated to:

https://aerwa.wordpress.com/ . The website was

AERWA News Letter 2016 7 formally launched on Sept 21, 2016

simultaneously with the inauguration of the

Office Premises of AERWA at Project Square,

Opposite SBI, Anushakti Nagar Branch, Mumbai

400 094.

R C Pant

(with inputs of senior members)

Milestones from inauguration of AERWA to

Inauguration of AERWA office

Historical Event Date

Inauguration at AECS No 1 31-05-1997

PAN issued 31-05-1997

Registration at CBD Navi

Mumbai, Thane

5-09-1997

31-10-1997

Identification under DPPW

Pensioners Portal

14-02-2014

Allotment of office at

Anushaktinagar

12-04-2016

Inauguration of office 21-09-2016

Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel and RMC Unit

of DAE are two arms of Tata Memorial Centre

(TMC), the national comprehensive centre for

the prevention, treatment, education and

research in Cancer. It is recognized as one of

the leading cancer centres in this part of the

world. In 1932 when Lady Meherbai Tata died

of leukaemia after treatment abroad, Sir Dorab

Tata was determined to establish similar

facilities for the treatment of Cancer in India.

Initially it was planned as Radium Institute in

Bombay. Sir Dorabji too died in 1932 .

However, trustees of the Sir Dorab Tata Trust,

along with various outstanding Cancer

specialists committed themselves in 1935 to

the establishment of the centre that would

benefit the Nation with an exceptional

everlasting deed than the usual philanthropy.

Out of this humanitarian concept from the

House of Tata, was born the nucleus of a

Hospital on 28 February 1941, called the TATA

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. It was a center with

enduring value and a mission for ‘concern for

the Indian people’.

Among those who were benefited in early

years by this institute was HH Maharaja Ganga

Singh of state of Bikaner (1880-1943), the only

"non-White" member of the British Imperial

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War cabinet during World War I. After initial

success in treatment, he returned to his Home.

Later Maharaja died of throat cancer at

Bombay. Bikaner Hospital is among oldest

hospital in India that had radiology unit since

1937.

In 1952 the Indian Cancer Research Centre

was established as a pioneer research institute

for basic research, later called the Cancer

Research Institute and Radiation Medicine

Center (CRI and RMC respectively). In 1957 the

Ministry of Health temporarily took over the

Tata Memorial Hospital. The transfer of the

administrative control of the Tata Memorial

Centre (Tata Memorial Hospital and Cancer

Research Institute) to DAE in 1962 was the next

major milestone due to the foresight of Dr.

Homi Bhabha, who envisaged the major role

that radiation would play in cancer treatment,

from imaging to therapy. TMH and CRI merged

in 1966 as TMC, representing a classic example

of private philanthropy augmented by

Government support, with a mandate for

Service, Education and Research in Cancer. The

institute had many outstanding medical

personalities who contributed to its reputation,

beginning from Dr. J.C. Paymaster to present

Director Dr. R.A Badwe

* K V Raghavendran has nostalgic association with

the institution.

Noble Prize 2016: The Nobel Prize 2016 in Physics

was divided; one half awarded to David J. Thouless,

the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J.

Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of

topological phase transitions and topological

phases of matter".

Medical Division’s reply to AERWA:

AERWA had written a letter on August 13,

2016 to Director BARC seeking clarification on

certain medical issues. A reply from Head,

Medical Division was received by the AERWA

office clarifying the queries. The gist of the letter

is as follows.

a) What is the period (from the date of

prescription) within which the prescribed

medicines should be purchased?

The medicines should be purchased within one

month from the date of prescription.

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b) What is the period (from the date of

prescription) within which the claims should be

submitted?

As such no time limit has been prescribed for

reimbursement of medical bills, however CSMA

rules provides time limit of three months from

the date of purchase and GFR rules permits

arrears claims up to the period of 1 year without

checks. However early submission of claims will

help in speedy settlement of the claims by

accounts. While submitting the claim the contact

no., accounts details may also be provided.

c) In case of emergency, can beneficiary choose

the clinic/hospital for his/her treatment?

In the case of emergency, a beneficiary can

choose the nearby clinic/hospital for his/her

treatment and the claim will be settled as per

laid down CGHS/LES rates.

d) In case he/she decides to take treatment

from hospitals in the approved referral

category, can the referral letter be obtained

post admission?

No post admission referrals are issued in case

the beneficiary gets admitted to referral

hospitals on his/her own volition except in case

of extreme emergency on case to case basis at

the discretion of the relevant specialty.

The complete text of the reply as well as the

letter written to Director BARC available on our

website https://aerwa.wordpress.com

AERWA can represent to the authorities genuine

Pension related issues / CHSS related issues if

submitted in writing. There is a proposal to start

computerization of Medical claim

reimbursement forms for those who need help.

Status of court cases- October 2016

1. Full Pension for < 33 yrs but > 20yrs of

service for pre-2006 retirees

Subsequent to DP&PW OM dated April6, 2016

delinking pro-rata reduction of pension for pre

2006 retirees having>20yrs< 33 years of service,

a good number of 1690 cases in BARC are

processed. Please inform AERWA if any one’s

case is still pending.

2. Two increments for DA, HRA and

pensionary benefits

DAE had issued an OM dated 25 Feb. 2016

asking all the Units to go for appeal in higher

8 Vol. 17(6) Nov-Dec 2016

What is the period (from the date of

prescription) within which the claims should be

such no time limit has been prescribed for

reimbursement of medical bills, however CSMA

rules provides time limit of three months from

date of purchase and GFR rules permits

to the period of 1 year without

ssion of claims will

help in speedy settlement of the claims by

accounts. While submitting the claim the contact

In case of emergency, can beneficiary choose

ase of emergency, a beneficiary can

choose the nearby clinic/hospital for his/her

treatment and the claim will be settled as per

In case he/she decides to take treatment

from hospitals in the approved referral

referral letter be obtained

No post admission referrals are issued in case

the beneficiary gets admitted to referral

hospitals on his/her own volition except in case

of extreme emergency on case to case basis at

The complete text of the reply as well as the

letter written to Director BARC available on our

AERWA can represent to the authorities genuine

Pension related issues / CHSS related issues if

submitted in writing. There is a proposal to start

of Medical claim

reimbursement forms for those who need help.

Full Pension for < 33 yrs but > 20yrs of

Subsequent to DP&PW OM dated April6, 2016

rata reduction of pension for pre-

2006 retirees having>20yrs< 33 years of service,

ARC are

processed. Please inform AERWA if any one’s

Two increments for DA, HRA and

DAE had issued an OM dated 25 Feb. 2016

asking all the Units to go for appeal in higher

courts against various CAT judgments on 2

increments. Contempt petitions were filed by

Ernakulum and NFC employees/retirees at

respective CATs. Hyderabad CAT hearing the

contempt case has directed DAE to implement its

order. DAE appeal against the Ernakulum CAT

order is to be still heard.

AEPWF has filed an OA reckoning 2

increments as Pay for pensionary benefits, at

CAT, Delhi with nearly 1000 applicants (mostly

from NPCIL and a few hundred from other DAE

units including BARC). The next date of hearings

is November 10, 2016.

In a DAE OM dated September 6, it has asked

various Units to provide the financial implications

in terms of DA, HRA, pensionary benefits etc,

considering 2 increments as “Pay”.

3. Pension on special pay for H+ retirees

DAE has filed SLPs in Supreme Court in both

pre-2006 and post 2010H+ cases. For pre-2006

case SLP CC no is 3452/2016 and for post 2010

SLP CC number is 3017/2016.The SLP 3017/2016

was heard on September 14, 2016 where Hon’ble

court did not condone delay requested by the

Govt. Advocate and it asked to issue notice both

on special leave petition to all respondents and

also on the limitation. The court also directed to

tag this SLP with DRDO SLP No. 24745/2015. Now

this SLP(CC) 3017 is converted to SLP/27273.

The SLP/3452 was listed on October 3, 2016 in

the Registrar court. The court has asked to

submit Vakalatnama for respondent No. 2 also

and also the Rejoinder Affidavit. The next date of

hearing is 15th

November, 2016.

Another case OA/261/2011 for pension on

special pay by 52 nos. of post 2010 H+ BARC

retirees was allowed by CAT Mumbai on Nov.6,

2015. DAE has filed a MA requesting abeyance of

this order till two SLPs are decided by HSC. This

came for hearing on 29th June 2016. Court

refused to entertain DAE MA and asked DAE to

appeal, if it desires.

4. Full parity case by pre-2006 retirees

OA 3529/2015 of pre-2006 S-29 pensioners for

full parity with post 2006 retirees and in any case

their pension not less than post 2006 S-24, S-27

retirees, came for hearing on 5th April, 2016. It

was adjourned to 7th

September, 2016. Next date

of hearing is now scheduled on 18th

November,

2016.

AERWA News Letter 2016 9 5. S-21 case

The hearing of the S-21 case at CAT Mumbai

was adjourned to June 30, 2016.It was

postponed to September 21, 2016. Now, it is

further postponed to December 15, 2016.

DAE/DRDO/ISRO News:

With ISRO's new range of High Through-put

satellites (HTS) taking shape at Space

Applications Centre (SAC), the present day DTH

dish receivers may be obsolete. One will just

need to attach a dongle to the TV to get the best

entertainment programming. One could even

continue watching the same programs

seamlessly on one’s mobile phone, without break

or delay. The first of the HTS to be launched in

2018 will beam data at speeds of 70 to 80

gigabits per second, faster than even the latest

GSAT class communication satellites - GSAT 18,

GSAT 19 and the yet to be launched GSAT 11 -

that are capable of beaming data at speeds

ranging between 2 and 14 gigabits per second.

Welcome to Platinum Club (≥75 yrs)

AERWA welcomes those attaining ≥75 yrs of age

as members of our prestigious Platinum Club.

They will also receive AERWA Platinum Club

Certificate shortly.

(Congratulations for getting Full Pension)

Name Phone No DoB

Sathe S T 21734617 1-Nov-41

Mrs. Matkar V. M. 25567964 6-Nov-41

De Deepak 27566263 6-Nov-41

Sengupta T K 27542729 9-Nov-41

Pant H C 27669013 10-Nov-41

Sevak Ram Bhola 27580130 11-Nov-41

Neelkantan K N 9895600733 20-Nov-41

Vaidya S N 22-Nov-41

Mangalvedkar N V 25551554 1-Dec-41

Singh Ram Janam 25562778 6-Dec-41

Sethi Kailash 13-Dec-41

Malik M K 27689459 18-Dec-41

Pushpangathan P N 9769881960 23-Dec-41

Agashe S M* 26592644 8-Nov-39

∗ New Member

Noble Prize 2016: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2016 was awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage,

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa "for

the design and synthesis of molecular machines".

Source for all the boxes pertaining to Noble prizes

2016: https://www.nobelprize.org

Vol. 17(6) Nov-Dec 2016

Appeal: In AERWA News Vol 17(6)-Sep-Oct 2016 issue, an article on “AERWA – IWSA Survey on dignified and meaningful life” was published wherein an appeal was made by AERWA to all the members that the survey form, enclosed along with the NL issue, may kindly be returned to the address mentioned therein. AERWA thanks to all the members for an overwhelming response to this appeal and requests you to kindly send the filled in survey form to the address given in the form, if not done already.

Hearty congratulations for your completing 80

years of age. Congratulations for getting

additional Basic Pension and DR (both for

pensioner and family pensioner): 20% for ≥80 yr;

30% for ≥85 yr; 40% for 90 yr; 50% for ≥95yr and

100% ≥100 yr. Name Phone No DoB

Venkatappiah J 27720887 3-Nov-36

Pai N D 25550514 10-Nov-36

Mistry R B 23739676 13-Nov-36

Iyer Gopal Krishna 26436878 16-Nov-36

Adhikari H R 24141244 2-Dec-36

Bapat S D 25251039 4-Dec-36

Joshi Manohar Vishnu 9890054736 8-Dec-36

Balasubramanian K R 16-Dec-36

Lewis T G 28166208 19-Dec-36

Rambhajan 27669046 25-Dec-36

Shetty I A 9901004836 28-Dec-36

Varshney S V 27704308 31-Dec-36

Noble Prize 2016: The Nobel Peace Prize 2016

was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos "for his

resolute efforts to bring the country's more than

50-year-long civil war to an end".

Birthday Greetings to the existing Platinum Club

members. जीवेत ्शरद: शतम ्Name Contact No DoB

Kannan Seshadri 28-Dec-27

Venkatachalam K 27890819 1-Dec-28

Raote Shrikant Liladhar 26700286 7-Nov-29

Natarajan C S 24095734 11-Dec-29

Sivaramakrishnan K S 27662928 20-Dec-29

Krishnan V 25250563 29-Dec-29

Vaze G D 25403225 1-Dec-30

Ghosh T K 27896384 30-Dec-30

Gogate S S 25260646 16-Nov-31

Bhave S B 24221063 14-Dec-31

Bagade R K 25331147 15-Dec-31

Shetty Babu 25584828 17-Dec-31

AERWA News Letter 2016 10 Vol. 17(6) Nov-Dec 2016

Chowdhury Tarun Kanti 27660397 1-Nov-32

Bagchi Alok Kumar 25583777 1-Nov-32

Akhileswaran Krishnan 27669772 3-Nov-32

Paranjpe S R 10-Nov-32

Coutino T G 27703687 15-Nov-32

Pande B.P. 427730403 20-Nov-32

Menon K K S 25886377 24-Nov-32

Mhaisalkar Veenita M 25553099 28-Nov-32

Jayawant S D 24453174 5-Dec-32

Degwekar V H 24078243 27-Nov-33

Joshi M R 25375642 15-Dec-33

Gadadare D A 15-Dec-33

Nair V P S 19-Dec-33

Dande Y D 22-Dec-33

Nair J S 1853272215 24-Dec-33

Bandyopadhyay C 1-Nov-34

Lakshmi Narayanan T A 8-Nov-34

Thakur V Gangadhar 11-Nov-34

Biswas C R 5386044 15-Nov-34

Rajagopalan G 25565887 12-Dec-34

Ramachandran T L 25320799 20-Dec-34

Chavan Vijay R 25348919 5-Nov-35

Murthy M S 25-Nov-35

Baste M S 16-Dec-35

Viswanathan S 423513235 17-Dec-35

Patil S K 21023768 22-Dec-35

Dutta Bijoy Bhushan 25234237 22-Dec-35

Sakhare D R 27653135 30-Dec-35

Venkatasubramanian 9969327012 8-Nov-37

Rasal J P 9-Nov-37

Nagarajan P S 27705706 11-Nov-37

Sundaram P G 27669885 11-Nov-37

Birdi K S 27821739 14-Nov-37

D'Souza A B 25511621 16-Nov-37

Tilak W G 18-Nov-37

Mamdapur V R 25562902 20-Nov-37

Ramakrishna D V S 27718591 22-Nov-37

Sunder Rajan N S 26044296 23-Nov-37

Ganga M K 27562283 30-Nov-37

Barve V C 26119145 1-Dec-37

Jadhav V N 12-Dec-37

Nair G M 25576098 12-Dec-37

Mainkar S A 28743088 19-Dec-37

Phadnis M G 26591964 19-Dec-37

Thomas M J 23-Dec-37

Mathur A S 27822333 27-Dec-37

Narayanan P V 9495196893 2-Nov-38

Bhaumik N 27709906 3-Nov-38

Kumra Madhusudan 27543205 7-Nov-38

Kothare R S 9870323189 11-Nov-38

Gopalkrishnan Sarada 15-Nov-38

Thyagarajan S 27708234 30-Nov-38

Nair P V N 25560484 1-Dec-38

Vaswani K G 9821567757 4-Dec-38

Gore M S 26100394 8-Dec-38

Mahajan S C 27668327 15-Dec-38

Banerji Asoke 17-Dec-38

Deshpande P V 27821808 20-Dec-38

Desai M V M 25567812 24-Dec-38

Rangarajan A N 27823422 25-Dec-38

Dharmadhikari M J 27824030 27-Dec-38

Dharwadkar S R 26153470 27-Dec-38

Kamala Balaraman 27659454 3-Nov-39

Sadalgekar P D 25814094 4-Nov-39

Garud Arun N 27711965 7-Nov-39

Agashe S M 26592644 8-Nov-39

Das Sharma R N 27722315 11-Nov-39

Bhor S G 25221127 15-Nov-39

Shukla J P 27897506 15-Nov-39

Tiwari G P 15-Nov-39

Nair K K V 9847056046 17-Nov-39

Apte P S 7547828 17-Nov-39

Michael Mariamma 7303887999 20-Nov-39

Shah T M 9869167095 22-Nov-39

Francis Netto 15-Dec-39

Ramachandran S R 19-Dec-39

Jogdand S T 24366045 4-Nov-40

Rajesh Kumar 25561926 14-Nov-40

Jani K P 27580737 21-Nov-40

Bhartiya U C 9920769643 23-Nov-40

Dalvi Sarojini Arun 25286378 25-Nov-40

Parab V T 25235274 29-Nov-40

Kamat A V 26103369 8-Dec-40

Saitawdekar D H 25516328 10-Dec-40

Mishra S D 25569462 10-Dec-40

Tandon P N 27653249 18-Dec-40

Jag Jyothi Nath 27663862 19-Dec-40

Kapoor Paramjyoti 9833524892 20-Dec-40

Patil Ravindra V 27661718 24-Dec-40

Gurkha Lalit Kumar 29-Dec-40

Majali A B 25565701 31-Dec-40

Chakraborty Gouri 24763879 1-Nov-42

Sundararajan P 25584395 1-Nov-42

Patnaik Rabindranath 9821581897 2-Nov-42

Shenoy U N 26716157 10-Nov-42

Rajamani K 11-Nov-42

Subramanian R V 9448466390 13-Nov-42

Panicker Pankajakshi C 25568144 18-Nov-42

Prasad Diwakar 27718856 1-Dec-42

Jayaraman V 8025877122 8-Dec-42

Marhas S Singh 12-Dec-42

Bharatan Girija 27877143 16-Dec-42

S Suresh Rao 8555287682 16-Dec-42

Mukhopadhyay S 27652553 17-Dec-42

Abani M C 27805452 18-Dec-42

Karekar S.N. 2025423265 23-Dec-42

Benadikar S V 9822145280 24-Dec-42

Bhargava Y B 24-Dec-42

Gogate S V 25112150 26-Dec-42

Srinivasa K 9819526689 28-Dec-42

Kadam V P 9819237966 30-Dec-42

D'Souza Edward 27719297 31-Dec-42

Chakraborty B 31-Dec-42

Noble Prize 2016: The Nobel Prize in

Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan

"for having created new poetic expressions

within the great American song tradition".

AERWA News Letter 2016 11

Welcome to New Life (L)/ Patron (P) Members Mem

No Name Ph. No. City

P-2769 Parui A B 9867336913 Kolkata

L-2770 Phadnis P S 7798834568 Pune

P-2771 Agashe S M 26592644 Bandra(E)

P-2772 Pawar VR 27745995 Kharghar

P-2773 Baste M S Nashik

AWRWA thanks the following members for their

Donation

Name Purpose

Amount

(Rs)

R.C. Pant Library Book shelf 5800

K C Pillai AERWA 4000

K V Raghavendran AERWA 2000

AERWA Societal Activities

S P Garg 870

V N Bapat 2000

Sankara Sastry 4000

K T P Balakrishnan 3000

V K Manchanda 5000

Veena B Sagar 3000

Vipla Kapoor 2000

Important: Do you really need a printed copy

of News Letter? The Soft copy of News Letter

is emailed to all those who have opted for it

even before it is printed. It is more colorful and

very much liked by readers. Please opt for Soft

copy by emailing your request to

aerwa12@gmail.com

An Appeal: Death is an inevitable landmark of

one’s life and everyone meets death sooner or

later. Still, the near and dear ones of the

deceased seek a solace in the solidarity and

condolences from the friends and well wishers. It

is for this purpose that AREWA News Letter seeks

your help in informing us if you know our AERWA

member friend passed away. Please inform the

news of demise of your friend, if any, along with

his photograph.

Sad Demise: AERWA deeply mourns the sad

demise of our following member and share the

grief of his family. May God keep soul in peace.

Shri B M L Sah (P-341), ex

NPCIL passed away on Oct

3, 2016. He was 78. He is

survived by wife and two

sons.

Vol. 17(6) Nov-Dec 2016

Important: The life Membership and Patron

Membership fees are Rs.600 and Rs.1000/

respectively. If you are already a ‘Life

Member’, please convert yourself to ‘Patron’

by paying additional Rs 400. This will

augment AERWA corpus fund. You may pay

membership fee/ donation through Internet

Transfer or deposit a cheque of any bank at

any branch of State Bank of India in any city.

The cheque/ Internet Transfer should be in

favor of “Atomic Energy Retirees Welfare

Association SBI A/c 34597981320”; (IFS

Code: SBIN0013055) OR post your cheque to:

Shri Vaze P K ; 1 Udayagiri CHS, Opp.

Telecom Factory, Deonar, Mumbai 400088;

Tel: 25584324 and Mob: 9821249101 ; Dr

Veena Sagar: 9869176128.

An Appeal: AERWA has initiated a drive to

collect the used frames of spectacles. They

will be distributed free of cost to the needy

persons through a partner institution

(charitable eye hospital or optician),

Interested? Please contact Dr. Vijay

Manchanda; 9969758498/ 25566028.

Important Tel Nos

BARC Hospital Security to call

Ambulance (Only for CHSS

beneficiaries)

2559 8200

2559 8308

24 hrs Ambulance Services for

Heart Attack

105

24 hrs Amb. Services for Accident

cases only

102

24 hrs Ambulance Services At New

Mumbai

27708016,

9324206678

24 hrs Ambulance Services at City

(Fort)

61618141

Police Control Room at Mumbai

and Navi Mumbai

100

Fire Station 101

Complaint against an autodriver

who refuses any passenger

1800220110

Central Pen Ac Off, Delhi to

Register your Grievances about

Pension (TollFree)

180117788

Noble Prize 2016: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize

in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred

Nobel 2016 was awarded jointly to Oliver Hart

and Bengt Holmström"for their contributions

to contract theory”.

AERWA News Letter 2016 12 Vol. 17(6) Nov-Dec 2016

Oh! Science and the scientists!

Michel Faraday was among a team of government

commissioners to watch the inquest upon those

who had died by the explosion in the Haswell

colliery in 1844. Among other questions he asked

how the rate of flow of air currents was measured.

An inspector in reply took a pinch of gunpowder

from a box, as if it were snuff, and let it fall through

the flame of a candle. His companion, with a watch,

noted the time the smoke took to travel a certain

distance.

The method satisfied Faraday, but he remarked

upon the careless handling of the powder, and

asked where it was kept. “"In a bag, tightly tied,"

was the reply.

"Yes, but where do you keep the bag?"

"You are sitting on it," answered the inspector

carelessly. Faraday's agility in vacating this seat of

honor may be imagined.

AERWA regularly posts important

announcements about its activities viz.

various functions, annual trips etc on its

website https://aerwa.wordpress.com .

Members are requested to visit the

website regularly to keep informed

about AERWA’s activities.

Published & Printed by:

Braj Mohan Misra on behalf of AERWA, at Sai

Enterprises, 6 Shah Industrial Estate and published

at: Project Square, Opposite to SBI Anushakti

Nagar Branch, Mumbai 400 094. Managing Editor:

Dr. M P. Chougaonkar

India Consumer Price Index for Industrial

Workers AICPI (IW)(Base of 261.4

as on 1/1/2016)

Month CPI base

1982=100

Twelve

months

total

Twelve

monthly

average

%increase

Above

261.4

for DA/DR

Sep-15 266 3088 257.33

Oct-15 269 3104 258.67

Nov-15 270 3121 260.08

Dec-15 269 3137 261.4

Jan-16 269 3152 262.67 0

Feb-16 267 3166 263.83 0

Mar-16 268 3180 265.00 1

Apr-16 271 3195 266.25 1

May-16 275 3212 267.67 2

Jun-16 277 3228 269.0 2

July-16 280 3245 270.42 3

Aug-16 278 3259 271.58 3

Created by Shri G B Kale

If not delivered please return to:

Atomic Energy Retirees Welfare Association (Regd).,

Project Square, Opposite to SBI Anushakti Nagar

Branch, Mumbai 400 094.

Humour in science:

It was well known to Pauli's co-workers that Pauli

should be kept away from experiments. When

he came near any experiment it would go wrong

and

instruments would go broke. This became

known as the Pauli Effect.

One day an important experiment went wrong

without any apparent reason. Pauli was not even

around, so this was very strange .... until they

discovered a few days later that Pauli was in the

train that was passing the building at the time of

the crash.

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