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News Letter of AERWA Vol 16 No 3 May-June 2015

NEWS LETTER OF AERWAR.N.I.REGN.NO. MAH/ENG/2000/706

Volume 16 - Issue No.3 May

ATOMIC ENERGY RETIREES WELFARE ASSOCIATIONAffiliated to

Office:

Soft Copy only for AERWA members (retirees of except through AERWA website.

Aims and Objectives of 'AERWA'1) To continue the emotional integration of all retired scientific, engineering, technical and

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 associatio

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 (Opinions and views expressed in articles

Annual Day Celebration, Annual General Body Meeting Day/ Date/ Time: Saturday; May 30, 2015; 10.00 AMVenue: AERB Ground Floor Hall, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai Registration Charges: Rs 150 (includes lunch & Tea charges)Programme: 10.00-13.00: i. Key note address by the Chief Guest Principal Scientific Adviser to the Governmenii. “From bullock cart to Atomic Energy" By books on Atomic Scientists and iii. “Senior Citizen homes around Mumbai”13:00 - 14:00: LUNCH; 14.00-17.00: 18

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Details of agenda and other relevant information are given Anushakti Nagar premises members are requested to carry with them CHSS Card. We request all members to reach the venue by

Procedure for becoming New Member, Converting Life to Patro(Fee for Life Member is Rs.600/- and Patron Member charges have increased substantially. It is our request copy of the New Letter. If you are already a ‘Life Member’, please convert This will augment AERWA corpus fund. You may deposit a cheque of any bank at any branch of State Bank of India inshould be in favor of “Atomic Energy Retirees Welfare Association SBI A/c SBIN0013055). (As per SBI’s directives, associations such as AERWA have to close the savings account and open a current account with a new Ac Number as given. However, if any payment has been old SBI A/c No. …..083 of AERWA the SBI will honour them ti

Shri Vaze P K ; 1 Udayagiri CHS, Opp.Telecom Factory, Deonar, MumbaiTel: 25584324 and Mob: 9821249101 ; Mob No of Dr Veena Sagar: 9869176128

PS: Please write your Name and Mobile No on the backside of the chequeCheque is directly deposited in the SBI, please [email protected] and [email protected]

Option of Receiving Soft Copy of AERWA News Letter Instead of Hard CopySeveral AERWA members have suggested allowing them to choose paper and also save AERWA funds. Soft copies are emailed

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NEWS LETTER OF AERWA

May-June 2015 (15 Pages)

ATOMIC ENERGY RETIREES WELFARE ASSOCIATION Affiliated to Bharat Pensioners Samaj, Delhi

Regd.No.MAH/527/97/Thane Dt. 5-9-97 Soc. Regn. Act 1860 Regd. No.F/5819/Thane Dt. 31.10.97 Bom. Pub. Trust Act, 1950

Office: 501 Emerald Heights, 32 Union Park, Chembur, Mumbai-400071 Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/aerwa2014/

e-mail: [email protected]

etirees of all units of DAE) – Not for General Circulation

Aims and Objectives of 'AERWA'- Highlights To continue the emotional integration of all retired scientific, engineering, technical and administrative staff

To represent to the concerned authorities updated social security needs of the retirees and family pensioners. To strengthen the hands of existing recognized apex bodies of similar associations of retirees of other

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.

in articles and editorials need not necessarily be that of AERWA)

Annual Day Celebration, Annual General Body Meeting : Saturday; May 30, 2015; 10.00 AM

: AERB Ground Floor Hall, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai (includes lunch & Tea charges)

Key note address by the Chief Guest Dr R Chidambaram, ernment of India and Homi Bhabha Professor;

From bullock cart to Atomic Energy" By Shri R P Kulkarni, EX-BARC & author of popular “Senior Citizen homes around Mumbai” by Dr P B Gurba

th Annual General Body Meeting;

Details of agenda and other relevant information are given in this issue. For entry in Nagar premises members are requested to carry with them Pensioners’ ID Card/

We request all members to reach the venue by 9.30 AM for registration.

, Converting Life to Patron Member or for Giving Donations Patron Member is Rs.1000/-).The printing cost of News Letter and postal

charges have increased substantially. It is our request that please become a Patron Member or opt for the soft If you are already a ‘Life Member’, please convert yourself to ‘Patron’ by paying Rs 400.

You may pay membership fee/ donation through Internet Transfer or of any bank at any branch of State Bank of India in any city. The cheque/ Internet Transfer

Atomic Energy Retirees Welfare Association SBI A/c 34597981320”; (IFS Code: As per SBI’s directives, associations such as AERWA have to close the savings account and

open a current account with a new Ac Number as given. However, if any payment has been made already in the old SBI A/c No. …..083 of AERWA the SBI will honour them till further notice). You can also post your cheque to:

1 Udayagiri CHS, Opp.Telecom Factory, Deonar, Mumbai-400088; ; Mob No of Dr Veena Sagar: 9869176128

on the backside of the cheque if you have posted to Shri Vaze. If the lease inform your deposit details either by post or by Email to:

[email protected] (The Membership Form will be posted later)

Option of Receiving Soft Copy of AERWA News Letter Instead of Hard Copy Several AERWA members have suggested allowing them to choose soft copy option in order to avoid wastage of paper and also save AERWA funds. Soft copies are emailed much earlier (before they are printed). It has more

News Letter of AERWA Vol 16 No 3 May-June 2015 [2]

detailed reports and coloured photographs as there are no restrictions like those in printing. The interested members may please convey this by an email to: [email protected] & [email protected]

Important Tel Nos (Please inform by an email if you wish to augment above list: [email protected]) BARC Hospital Security to call Ambulance (Only for CHSS beneficiaries)

2559 8200 2559 8308

24 hrs Ambulance Services for Heart Attack 105

24 hrs Ambulance 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 auto-driver who refuses any passenger 1800220110

Central Pen Ac Off, Delhi to Register your Grievances about Pension (Toll-Free) 180117788

EDITOR’S SPACE Recommendations to the 7th pay Commission K V Raghavendran, Founder editor 1 The very concept of pension can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago to the times of Kautilya wherein the reference of this can be found in Artha shastra. Chanakya/ Kautilya (Book no 5, chapter 3, Para 28-30 by Shri Soma Sharma in English and published by Government. Of India in 1950) goes on to say that employer should take care of families of employees in bad times and in case of death till the employees’ family becomes self supporting. 2 In 1982 the landmark judgment by full constitutional bench of Honourable Supreme Court lead by Hon. Justice Shri Y V Chandrachud in D.S. Nakra’s case was delivered wherein it was held that pension is a right and not alms. Definition of pension should be therefore amended in the constitution. Article 366(17) also refers pension as “Retired Pay. 3 It is clear that New Pension Scheme (NPS) is unconstitutional, considering the false and imaginary incapacity of the Government to pay when the same Government expects private Corporate Sectors in India to spend 2% of its profit on public social security charities. The government itself goes in opposite direction, unconstitutionally removing pension for its own retired employees. 4 In all fairness the government has to attract people of intelligence, dedication, skill, capability to take risks in duties, with high salaries, model pension, family pension and health benefits. This can only bring in honest, non-corrupt and intelligent employees. Government jobs cannot be less attractive than private sector – but capacity to

pay cannot come in the way. All important activities of the government in the society should be its own responsibility and not with individuals or group of small individuals. Even if salary/pension goes on increasing, in real terms the continuous upward movement of the cost of living index really means government gives the same salary/pension to live in the same levels in the past to the majority of employees. The government’s pension expenditure has not increased beyond 1.3% of GDP. (Ref in study report of Dr Gayathri Devi’s recommendation commissioned by 6th CPC) Old Pension Vs New Pension 5. The terms of Reference to 7th CPC is considered too restrictive to suggest fair needs of pensioners in particular. 6. Dr Gayathri Devi’s report as per 6th CPC is for continuation of old pension scheme for pre 2004 staff. The defence staff in Uniform are continuing old pension because, then Minister of Defence Shri George Fernandes did not approve NPS for Defence service personnel. Now there was (one rank one pension) OROP case in Supreme Court. Hon. Supreme Court in its judgment dated 31st March 2014 gave one rank one pension for Supreme Court and High Court Judges. (who are directly selected from practicing advocates) by additional 10 years service thereby banning New pension scheme (NPS) to judges of High court and Supreme court. Why not Deptt. Of Atomic Energy? In what way DAE is inferior to Defence forces and judges? Can anybody deny that without DAE, DRDO and ISRO the defence of our country would be near to nothing. 7. The sixth CPC considered the DAE as special among Central Government. Departments but


failed to give any directions or any privileges to attract talents. 8. Railways are also demanding old pension scheme and scrapping of NPS. 9. Therefore NPS may be scrapped or removed from DAE. As a matter of fact as per the scientific policy resolution of 1958 DAE should have dual retirement policy of having both the old pension scheme and new one rank one pension as given to SC and HC judges by adding 10 years of service. This will enable to attract talented and competent mangers who can serve in tenure posts. 10. Risk of exposure to unknown radiation is more than the risks in other areas. NPCIL is considered as Public Sector Unit where the working conditions are similar to other DAE establishments. Therefore to deny old pension scheme benefits to NPCIL employees will drive away talents in this organization where cutting edge and innovative technology are required to be encouraged for more self reliance. 11. Though all Pay Commissions are supposed to give some good and some bad recommendations the anomalies created by 6th CPC by outsourcing decision making to outside agencies made unwanted recommendations like 4 pay band systems by compressing 34 scales of pay. The gap between the Band 3 and Band 4 being major anomaly was further compounded by the GOI by arbitrarily transferring S-24 to pay band 4 (against the 6th CPC recommendations). There are several cases in the CAT and in other courts for setting these anomalies. In this context it’s worthwhile to mention the case of S-21 scale pensioners. For example: 12. While implementing the 6th CPC wef 1-1-2006, the most affected category of employees was those pensioners who were in the pay scale of 12000-375-16500 (S-21). Though the 6th CPC recommended S-21 (Rs 12000-375-15600) and S-24 grade (Rs 14300-400-18300) for inclusion in PB-3, the Government has approved S-24 alone in PB-4, which was a disproportionate jump, there by created many anomalies among the employees/pensioners in S-21 and S-24 pay scales. The following example may kindly be seen for the disparity. 13. Disparity and anomaly is clear from the following table wherein S-21 pensioner getting

more pension than S-24 pensioner before 2006 was getting less after 2006. This speaks volumes about the anomaly between pay band 3 and band 4 as Illustrated in the table below)

Grade

CPC 5th (Rs) CPC 6th (Rs)

Pay Pension Pension Formula Pension

SE(S-21) 16500 8250 2.26x8250* 18645

SF(S-24) 14300 7150 1/2(37400+8700)** 23050

Difference - +1100 - -4405

*Beneficial as per para 4.1of OM dated1-9-2008 **Beneficial as para 4.2 of OM dated1-9-2008 14. The above is highly discriminatory to the existing S-21 pensioners. 15. When such blatant injustice by wrong implementation has been brought to CAT and when courts after courts up to Supreme court has given the verdict in favour of pensioners, the departments in Government have delayed the court procedures, have refused to accept the verdict and appealed for review petitions at the highest court and further asked for curative petition (which were rarely used in the history) The verdict in the case of S-29,30 scales (OA /655) in the Principal CAT court will be implemented to litigants , denying it to other similarly placed pensioners. Does the government expect lakhs of pensioners around the country to appeal in the courts? 16. Category of family Pensioners: Cap on the family pensioner’s income to be increased substantially to accommodate exceptional deserving cases of second category of family pensioners. The interest income on money held as FDs should not be taken as regular income because fixed deposits are held for emergencies. 17. We request that the following for the benefit of DAE pensioners be recommended; A. AERWA should be provided office accommodation in Anushaktinagar. B. Department should help in having old age homes for retirees of DAE C. High quality super specialty hospital should be set up to meet emergencies and peculiar needs of DAE pensioners. D. AERWA should have permanent membership in SCOVA (Special Committee of Voluntary Agencies for Pensioners).

*************** AERWA NEWS 18th ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING OF AERWA


NOTICE is hereby given that the 18th Annual General Body Meting of AERWA for the year ending 31st March 2015 will be held on 30th May 2015at AERB Ground Floor Hall, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400 094 from 14.00 hrs onwards to transact the following business on the agenda. AGENDA 1. To consider and confirm the Minutes of the 17th

Annual General Meeting of AERWA held on 8th June 2014.

2. To consider and adopt the Annual Report for the Year ending 31-3-2015.

3. To consider and approve the audited Statements of Accounts of AERWA for the year ended at 31st March 2015 and audited Balance Sheet of AERWA as on 31-3-2015. The same will be emailed (to ~415 members whose Email-ID are available) as well as posted on the AERWA website by May 15, 2015.

4. To pass resolution to transfer Rs. 316500 to News Letter AERWA Fund to raise it to Rs 10 lakh.

5. To approve the tentative Budget for the year 2015-2016.

6. To appoint External Auditor for the year 2015-2016 and to fix the remuneration.

7. To approve the utilization of grant amount in DP&PW portal.

8. To consider suggestions for improvement of AERWA activities, if any.

Notes: (i) If there is no quorum at 14.00 hrs. the Annual General Body Meeting will be adjourned for half an hour and such adjourned meeting will be held on the same day and at the same place to transact the business on the agenda whether there is a quorum or not. (ii) Questions / Resolutions etc. if any from members should reach the General Secretary/President on or before 15-5-2015. (iii) The members are requested to bring their own copies of current issue of Newsletter of AERWA for General Body Meeting. (iv) For entry in Anushaktinagar premises members are requested to carry with them Pensioners’ Identity Card/CHSS Card. B M Misra, Hon Secretary AERWA; 20-4-2015 -------------- 18th Annual Report of Managing Committee of AERWA for the Year 2014-2015 Dear Members, On behalf of the managing Committee of AERWA, I take this opportunity to present Annual Report for the year 2014-2015 ended on 31st March 2015. Membership: New Members – 2014-15: Patrons-147 (43 Life Members converted to Patron + 104 New Patron members); Life Members-19.

The total membership as on 31/3/2015: is 1733 (P-1238+L-465+Association Members-35). This number is arrived after removing the names of deceased members. We regret to inform that 12 members left for heavenly abode during the reporting period. We pay homage to them. Donations: AERWA is very much thankful to all members and others who voluntarily donated Rs 28017 for the activities of the association. Another donation of Rs 39,851, contributed by 13 members, was sent to PM National Relief Fund for the J&K flood victims relief. An acknowledgement has been received from PMO. AERWA acknowledges the kind gesture of the members who donated for this cause. AERWA: Annual Day Celebration-2014 The Annual Day Meet was held on June 8, 2014 at Multi-Purpose Hall, TSH, Anushakti Nagar. About 125 members participated in the function. Dr SP Garg, President AERWA welcomed all members present, introduced the Chief Guest Dr S Banerjee, Homi Bhabha Chair Professor, BARC and Ex-Chairman AEC and invited him to deliver the Key note address. Dr Banerjee gave an excellent presentation on “DAE Culture”. He described the various roles of scientists/ engineers during last six decades of DAE programme categorizing in three periods of twenty yrs each, 50s to 70s, 70s to 90s and 90s till date. Dr Banerjee mentioned an important aspect of DAE culture, that in spite of several constraints almost all the projects initiated by DAE achieved their ultimate goals. He gave examples of “Arihant”, India’s first nuclear submarine, nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, world’s largest nuclear desalination plant and most importantly DEA‘s contribution in the field of nuclear agriculture. After the Tea Break, Dr MR Iyer presented an interesting lecture on “Concept of time in Physics and Metaphysics”. He mentioned that ancient treatises of Hindu Philosophical thoughts encompass wide range of time scale from 10-8 to 1022 seconds. In modern science the units relate to atomic/ nuclear times to age of universe and beyond. He mentioned that only Hindu Philosophy propounds the idea of life cycles of Universe i.e. birth and death. He then went in to details of Veda’s quotes and their parallelism to modern physics. The third lecture was given by Shri Tyagrajan P on “Societal Activities by the Vinimay “. A summary of his talk is given below: About Vinimay (www.vinimaytrust.org) Vinimay is a social work organization [NGO] working for under-privileged children and youth staying in, and emerging out of, child welfare institutions (CWIs) in the city of Mumbai. Other details were published in News Letter Vol 15-4.


In the afternoon session, 17th AGM of AERWA was held between 2: 30 PM to 4:30 PM. 96members attended the AGM. The Minutes of the AGM are already printed in the July-August 2014 issue of the Newsletter. The result of the election for the new MC Committee for the year2014-16 was announced in the AGM and got approved. PENSIONERS’DAY CELEBRATION Pensioner Day programme held on December 17, 2014 was a grand success. More than 160 members participated in the function. Shri R.C.Pant, President, AERWA welcomed the members and invitees. Dr V.K.Manchanda , Vice President , AERWA anchored the programme and introduced all the speakers Shri S A Bhardwaj Homi Bhabha Chair Professor and Former Director Technical, NPCIL and President Elect, Indian Nuclear Society was the Chief Guest. Founder Members of AEWA led By Shri K V Raghavendra (Membership No. P-1) were felicitated on this occasion for their excellent foresight, dedication and untiring hard work to create an organization like AERWA. The other founder members felicitated were, Shri T K Chaudhry, Shri S Rama Rao and Shri N S Kimsen. The members gave a brief of their memorable association. Memorable photographs were printed in the January-Feb 2015 issue of Newsletter. Shri Bhardwaj gave an excellent presentation on 3-phase Atomic Energy programme of the country. He also gave an account of future directions of nuclear power proramme not withstanding the hurdles caused by liability act passed by Indian Parliament.. He suggested that AERWA members can contribute in the DAE Outreach Programme. Incidentally, Shri Bhadwaj himself is overseeing the programme Dr B B Singh gave a presentation on the need to make a WILL before it is too late. He presented a sample of the WILL which can be suitably modified based on individual choice. He referred many court cases which he had taken up to avoid hardship to successors. He offered any help from members required. There was an inspiring presentation by Mrs Meera Suresh from Sneh Bandhan Trust on “Donate Organs and Save Lives”. She presented cases dealing with donation of organs like eye, skin and even the whole body after death. She also distributed leaflets on organ donation and suggested how members can join the organ donation campaign. In the Afternoon Session, (which was conducted by the Shri R.C.Pant, President, AERWA and Dr B.M.Misra, Secretary AERWA) pensioner related issues were discussed in an open forum. The felicitated members gave a brief account of their memorable association with AERWA..(Memorable photographs have been printed in the January-Feb 2015 issue of

Newsletter). Shri S S Ramachandran, Advisor, Bharat Pensioner Samaj gave the introductory remarks and appreciated AERWA efforts in supporting the pensioner’s. Some of the members participated in the subsequent discussions. The meeting ended with vote of thanks. AERWA PICNIC The AERWA Picnic-2015 was held on January 18 at Modak Van “Modak Samajik Vanikaran and Vrikshlagvad Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit", Nasarapur Village, Karjat, Raigad District. ~70 Km. from Kharghar. Shri Swaraj Agrawal and Shri Keshav Chandra, the members of the Sahkari Sanstha, made excellent arrangements for snacks and lunch at the picnic site. AERWA is grateful to them. 77 members including their family members participated in the event. They enjoyed walking in the forest and few went to the river front. The group also visited an Elderly home run by some NGO.

This was a memorable event. Some photographs during Picnic were printed in the March-April 2015 NL issue. AERWA’s recognition by Pensioners’ DP&PW Portal It is heartening to inform the members that AERWA has been recognized as one among few Pensioner’s Association in India to be part of the DP&PW portal. This allows direct communication with DP&PW on many issues relevant to pensioners including lodging grievances in pension matters. These Associations are also given an annual grant of Rs 75,000/ for office maintenance expenses including hiring an assistant, office rental, internet charges, stationery etc. This grant however does not allow expenses on Newsletter, our major expenditure head. The first installment to AERWA was received last year and a separate account was opened at HDFC, Govandi, as mandated by DP&PW. .AERWA has been able to utilize this grant partially on above activities this year and an audited account is ready to be submitted to DP&PW, requesting release of next year grant. Vote of Thanks On behalf Managing Committee of AERWA I express our sincere thanks and feelings of appreciation to (1) The authorities and staff members of the AERB (2) The canteen staff and canteen management of AERB. (3) M/s B.Shankar & Co. Chartered Accountants as our statutory auditors, (4) The Anushaktinagar Residents Welfare Association. B M Misra, Hon Secretary AERWA

------------- Revised pension (compiled by G.Chandran) It is more than two years since the Government has revised basic pension of certain grades of pre-2006 & pre-1996 pensioners by OM dated 28/01/2013 & 13/2/2013. It is regrettable that even now thousands of


BARC pensioners have not received their new pension, because of inaction by the pension cell of BARC. The usual excuse given by the concerned department, whenever an old case was brought to their notice, was that they are short of staff, which was not tenable at all. The issue has been repeatedly taken up by the President and Secretary of AERWA with BARC and finally the Controller has assured that this will be carried out on a priority basis. Among the scientific grades SO/C and above, those eligible for the enhanced basic pension has been detailed by Dr.S.P. Garg in AERWA newsletter Vol.14-No.1, Jan-Feb 2013. For others reference may be made to the concurrence table issued by the dept of pension which can be obtained at: http://pcdapension.nic.in/6cpc/Circular-102.pdf. Those who have not yet received any communication from BARC on the revised pension are requested to send the required information such as Name, PPO Number, grade and year of retirement , current basic pension and employee Computer Code to BARC pension cell by email to [email protected]

or . The contact phone Nos

of BARC pension cell are: 25572732/ 2712 and of Ms Vasantha Kumari, DC-Pension – 25595334. If there is no favorable response from BARC, they may inform AERWA by email to .

************* Government Order/ News (Related Excerpts) 1. CPAO, Ministry of Finance, New Delhl Dt: 25/02/2015 0M Sub: Inordinate delay in revision of pension of pre… 2006 retirees lnspite of best efforts made by various authorities of civil Ministries/Departments′ 28896 cases are stillǁ pending for revision for want of mandatory information like last pay drawn′ scale of pay′ qualifying service′ date of death etc especially after the issue of DPPW O M dated 28/01/2013 2. The CPAO has analyzed the reasons of delay in revision of pension and arrived that the minimum pension/family pension (Rs 3,500/―) Can be revised by the PAOs after confirming the name of the pensioner/family pensioner′ PPO number′ bank account etc. 3. All CCAs/CAs are requested to review the status of unrevised pension cases in respect of their Ministries/Departments and instruct to their PAOs to finalize cases in the light of the Para (2) above and issue revised authority either through e-revision utility or manually within 15 days of receipt of this OM. This issues with the approval of Additional Controller General of Accounts.

Sr. Accounts Officer (Tech); Ph 26178990 2. Jeevan Pramaan: Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners - Aadhaar based digital life certificate for Pensioners; OM 2014-15/218-259/ 20.03.2015 (https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/)

The Hon’ble Prime Minister has launched “Jeevan Aadhaar” (Aadhaar based biometric verification system for pensioner). To make its implementation successful Department of Financial Services has constituted a sub-group comprising of RBI, Indian Bank’s Association (IBA), State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank. Accordingly; ·RBI, IBA and Department of Financial Services have issued necessary guidelines/ instructions to all banks. To implement Jeevan Pramaan it is necessary on the part of banks to feed the Aadhaar number with Pension Payment Order and bank account number. To complete this task, all banks have to take special drive to collect the Aadhaar number. of pensioners and make it a part of their master data. In the above context Addl. CGA has taken a meeting on 24.12.2014 to discuss further the strategy for speedy implementation of the system. For this purpose, they will call the pensioners to come to bank along with their original Aadhaar card and its photocopy for identification. The designated officer of the bank will identify the pensioner with reference to the PPO and KYC document and seed his pension account with Aadhaar server. He will keep the photocopy of Aadhaar Card in the pensioners’ folder for record. The bank will apply this strategy immediately with those pensioners whose life certificates are still pending and are interested to opt for digital certification of their life. Thereafter, they may complete this task well before November, 2015, when life certificate becomes dues. A column for Aadhaar number has been provided in the format of master data and made available on CPAOs website. All CPPCs are advised to update their master data duly seeded with PPO number & bank account numbers and send the same to CPAO by e-mail at [email protected] at the earliest so that CPAO also updates its master data for validation purpose. This task must be completed on top priority basis.


(Dr. Dilip Kumar); Controller of Accounts; 011-26174809 3. CPC-VII News: National Council (Staff Side), Joint Consultative Machinery for Central Government Employees (Excerpts) No.NC/JCM/2015 Dated: March 25, 2014 The 7th CPC had asked the JCM Staff Side to present their case before the Commission for wage revision on 23rd and 24th March 2015. Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the Staff Side met on 22nd March and again 23rd March 2015. The presentation was made on 23rd and 24th March 2015 before the Commission. We have discussed the memorandum, chapter wise and the Commission made a very patient hearing and interacted with us seeking clarifications on certain matters. It is not possible to provide a detailed account of the discussions. However, we are to inform you that we came out of the discussion with a very good impression and satisfaction.

1. The Commission will adopt Minimum Wage Concept (Dr. Aykhrod Formula) as the principle of wage determination. They will however, collect the retail rates of the commodities that go into the basket.

2. We have pleaded for the adoption of the best international practices while fixing the highest salary. On the demands for Interim Relief and Merger of DA, the Commission finally said that those can only be considered if Terms of Reference are amended. The Commission agreed that there had been reduction in the sanctioned strength and working strength over the years despite the increased workload.

3. They have also noted that there was substantial reduction in percentage terms of the expenses on salary and wages over the years.

4. The Commission enquired, as to how multiplication factor of 3.7 was arrived at. The same was explained in detail.

5. Fitment Formula and the demand on Fixation of Pay on Promotion were appreciated as the rationale was explained.

6. Date of effect: No commitment or comment was made by the Commission. The Staff Side explained, as to how they compromised by shifting the date from. 01.01.2011 to 01.01.2014.

7. The institution of Special Pay, especially in the wake of de-layering was explained.

8. Common Categories: We have requested the up gradation and amalgamation of the cadres of LDC with UDC and the need for bringing about parity in pay scales of the Subordinate Offices with the Central Secretariat. The problems of Staff Car Drivers were also elaborated. The contractorisation and casualisation at lower level positions and the consequent exploitation of the labour were discussed at length. The Commission has made a proposal to do away with the

contractorisation/casualisation. Staff side will discuss the proposal and will send its views to the Commission in due course.

9. Classification of Posts: Our proposal has not been found favour.

10. GDS: While sympathizing with the Staff Side, the Commission wanted them to approach the Government with a view to amend the Terms of Reference.

11. Allowances and Advances: Detailed discussions were held on HRA, CCA, Transport Allowance, CEA and Special Allowance for personnel posted at North East Region. Chapters dealing with the facilities were also discussed at length, including compassionate appointment. On holidays, we have requested to include May Day in the list of holidays. The background of observance of May Day was enquired by the Commission and explained. Pension and Retirement Benefit – NPS: Commission stated categorically that NPS being an Act of Parliament, they will not make any comment thereon. Pension Computation: The rationale of 67% was explained and appreciated. Minimum Pension: our demand for 2/3rd of the Minimum Wage was also explained. Parity in pension of past and present pensioners was fully explained, linked with one rank -one pension scheme for Defence Personnel. We have pleaded that Civilian Pensioners should not be discriminated against. Demand for Additional Pension for both Pensioners and Family Pensioners was explained. All matters concerning Family Pension were also discussed. So also, gratuity to be computed in accordance with the Gratuity Act. There was good response for the demands from the Commission. Restoration of commuted value of pension: The Commission will enquire the views of the Government as to what is their objection to the demand. Medical facilities for pensioners and discrimination between Pensioners in CGHS area and CCS (MA) Area as also the Postal Pensioners was brought home including the higher Fixed Medical Allowance for ESI persons. Certain clarifications/elucidations have been asked for by the Commission. To provide such clarifications, another meeting with the Commission might be held after the Commission’s interaction with other organizations. The Staff Side may meet the Commission after their interaction with the other organizations is over. With greetings, (Shiva Gopal Mishra); Secretary/Staff Side NC JCM

------------ 4. New Pension Scheme (NPS) (Bharat Central Pensioners Confederation Website)


This Memorandum on Pension and other Retirement Benefits was submitted to the VII CPC. For further details, please contact: [email protected] CHAPTER – II, New Pension Scheme (NPS) (Only excerpts are presented here – Ed) 2.1 The contributory pension system brought in by the GOI through their notification dated 22.12.2003, now renamed as National Pension System under PFRDA Act, has been imposed on Government employees who entered service on or after 1.1.2004. 2.2 This is an illegal act in as much as the Supreme Court of India had held Pension as an enforceable inalienable fundamental right. Therefore it should be scrapped or at least not made applicable to Government employees. This has also divided the CG employees into two categories and therefore it is discriminatory in respect of persons who have entered service on or after 1.1.2004 who had been denied the statutory pension. Any discriminatory scheme is illegal and ultravires of Article 14 of the Constitution. On this count also the NPS cannot be made applicable to the Government employees. 2.3 The Centre for Economic Studies and Policy, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore in a Study of Terminal Benefits of the Central Government Employees sponsored by the VI CPC had also observed that Civil Services Pension is in the nature of a deferred wage. It is well known that the principle guiding the pay package of civil servants is one of intentionally spreading out the compensation over a long period of time, thereby the wages paid out during the course of the work tenure is kept low by design, and the pension payments made during the retirement phase compensate for the low working wages. 2.4 The above mentioned study under the heading “Arguments against pension reforms” states as follows: “Deferred Wage: In the context of civil servant pension payments, it is argued that, the principle guiding the fixation of pay package is one of intentionally spreading out the compensation over a long period of time, whereby the wages paid out during the course of work tenure is kept low by design, and the pension payments made during the retirement phase compensate for the low working wages. The Supreme Court of India held that 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. It is a social welfare measure, rendering socio-economic justice to those who in the heyday of their life ceaselessly toiled for the employer on an assurance that in their old age, they would not be left in the lurch.” “Larry Williams observes “Actually, civil service pensions, because they are not based on contributions,

are best described as deferred wages. Civil servants accept a lower current wage in exchange for the promise of a pension in their old age. If this pension were contributory, they would insist on a higher wage and government would have to either increase taxes or borrow (issue debt) to pay it. The real cost of civil servants is thus much higher than recorded under the current system of cash accounting. A good reform would be to move to a system of accrual accounting setting up at least a notional fund to pay these deferred wages” (Larry Wilmore, 2004)” “Public and private sector pay differentials: A comparison of the public and private sector wages reveals that while the public sector wages for the lower grades compares well with that of the private sector, the salaries of the employees belonging to the higher grades are highly unfavorable to the public sector employees. The post-retirement benefits that the government employees are entitled to act as some incentive to retain them in government sector.” 2.5 Dr.Gayatri on advice of the VI CPC had estimated pensionery outgo in India as given in the Table below: Table Showing Estimated Pensionery Outgo in (Rs Crores)

Year Employee Pension

Family Pension

Total pension

2004 11300.69 2983.38 14284.07

2008 13532.84 3572.68 17105.52

2013 16549.07 4368.94 20918.02

2018 21862.54 5771.79 27634.33

2023 27723.68 7319.11 35042.80

2028 34076.27 8996.13 43072.41

2033 39321.68 10381.01 49702.69

2038 45164.50 11923.41 57087.90

2043 41747.23 11021.30 52768.53

2048 35011.92 9243.18 44255.10

2053 25405.44 6707.07 32112.51

2058 16303.15 4304.07 20607.22

2063 8179.51 2159.39 10338.90

2068 3159.88 834.19 3994.07

2073 800.68 211.34 1012.02

2078 110.26 29.17 139.43

2083 3.52 0.97 4.49

2088 0.00 0.00 0.00

2.6 The above study had also pointed out that expenditure on pensions of civil servants of high income OECD countries on an average is 2% of GDP (less than 1% in Ireland and more than 3.5% in Austria*)(* Source: OECD Social Expenditure Database). But in the 8 South Asian countries it is less than 1% of GDP (Source: World Bank Data base). However, in India between 1964-65 and 2004-05 on an average pension payments (Civil Service pension paid by Central


Government) have constituted 0.51% share of GDP. The Pension liability would continue to increase and reach 0.54% level by 2024-25 and remain at that level for some years after which it would decline as a percentage of GDP according to the same study. These figures argue themselves in favour of continuation of the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme for all Central Government employees instead of throwing a section of them to market based NPS. According to 2011 census 62.8% are in the age group of 15 to 60 and only 8.2% are above the age of 60. 2.7 From the above projection it is very clear that the benefit of NPS will commence only after 2044. And during the period it will increase exponentially as in addition to the Statutory pension liability the Government will be contributing to the NPS also @ 10% of annual salary bill of the CG Employees who have entered service on or after 1.1.2004. 2.8 The final conclusion of this study team has been as under: “Mainly given the fact that the future liability although may be large in terms of the absolute size is not likely to last very long and does not constitute an alarmingly big share of the GDP which is also on the decline, it appears that pursuing the existing Pay As you Go to meet the liability would be an ideal solution.” 2.9 Applying this conclusion we may suggest that the NPS may not be made applicable to the Government employees and all those who had been covered under NPS may be reverted back to statutory pension scheme. The Government may be asked to study the experiences of this scheme in several other countries in the world. In Chile such a scheme has been reversed as because the return which the low paid employees got out of the annuity purchased was not as good as 50% of LPD but as low as 20% of LPD. The UK Government had to pay out of the exchequer large amount by way of subventions in order to ensure that that annuities purchased yield 50% of LPD as pension. It is well known that in USA where there were similar pension schemes dependent upon the market had collapsed during the financial melt down from 2008 onwards. It is estimated that more than 3.5 trillion dollars worth of pension wealth was lost. The workers not only lost their pension but also their jobs. Our respectful submission is that taking into account the demographic considerations of India which is a country of young does not need any such market oriented pension scheme, particularly when the international experience is that such schemes had failed and our country can afford to pay pension to civil servants which stand at level of 1% of the GDP. We conclude by quoting the opinions of experts on the future of market dependent pension Scheme.

Mr Joseph Stiglitz (Chief economic advisor to former president of USA Bill Clinton, former vice-chairman and chief economic advisor, World Bank, Nobel Prize winner, Professor of economics, Columbia university) said that “Stock market does not guarantee returns. It does not even guarantee that the stock values will keep up with inflation. Privatization would not protect retirees against the social security systems insolvency. Argentina’s privatization of its pension system was at the centre of its fiscal woes”. Mr Dean Baker (Co-director for centre for economic and policy research, Washington) said “Privatization means that you would not have a guaranteed benefit that you have today. It would depend on how will your investments do or how well they have done at the point you retire. He quoted the collapse of NASDAQ and Enron. In Britain, Insurance companies could not honor their promises and the Government had to compensate with 8 billion pounds.

********** Important Court Cases A. Status of S-21 case (SO-E Group) ( M. Venugopalan/Venkatesh Murthy) No further report.

--------------- B. Status of S-29, S-29+ and < 33yrs cases (Shri BM Misra) 1. The contempt case for release of arrears

from1.1.2006 to 24.9.2012 for all 661 nos. of S-29 applicants came for hearing on 10.1.2015 at CAT, Delhi. As all the applicants were not paid the arrears till date, the next date of hearing was postponed to 13.2.2015. It has been further postponed to April 9, 2015.The CP could not be heard on this day and next date is 27.5.2015

2. 3 SLPs by UOI at Supreme Court, similar to case of 661 members S-29 group and many other cases for release of arrears wef 1.1.2006, were fixed for 13th Jan. 2015. As the bench was busy. These SLPs were heard at HSC on 17th March and have been dismissed. The court ordered to implement the order in 4 months’ time; meanwhile all intervention applications to be withheld.

3. Five MAs from about 800 new S-29, S-26 and S-21 members were filed at CAT, Delhi for arrears wef 1.1.2006. The case came up for hearing on 2.2.2015 &6.2.2015. The next date of hearing was fixed for April 9; 2015.The case came for hearing on April 9, where the Govt. advocate argued that no implement / intervention application can be allowed as per HSC order of 17.3.2015. The court asked the Govt. counsel to get the instruction form GOI whether the benefit is


to be given to non-petitioners also. The next date of hearing was fixed for 27.5.2015.

4. The case for


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Contribution towards S-21 Court Case: Nil Donations to AERWA

Name Rs Name Rs

Shri R.G. Bhandari 3000 Shri M S Surve 2000

Shri PK Vaze 5000

Prime Minister National Relief Fund for J&K Name Rs Name Rs

DrG D Jindal 10000 ShriB S Huligerimath 2000

ShriB M Misra 5000 DrS P Garg 2000

DrN M Gupta 5000 ShriKTP Balkrishnan 1500

DrN.Saratchandran 4000 ShriR C Pant 1000

DrBL Bhargava 3000 ShriK. C. Kunju 1000

DrM.B. Bajpai 2251 ShriA K K Pillai 1000

DrV K Manchanda 2100 Total 39851

The amount of Rs. 39851 was deposited in the PMNRF. A letter of appreciation from PMO and the receipt from PMNRF was received which was posted to all donors. Thank you. AERWA expresses gratitude to the members for making generous contributions.

***************** Welcome to Platinum Club (≥75 yrs) (With Birth Day from 1st May to 30th June) Member marked ** has joined AERWA only during last 2 months. AERWA welcomes them as members of our prestigious Platinum Club. 75 Yrs (Congratulations for getting Full Pension)

Name Tel DOB

M.S. Anmadwar** 255343433 1-Feb-39

Nair C V G 27892624 10-May-40

Jamgaonkar S V 25168330 10-May-40

Keni H R 14-May-40

Bangia T R 65112233 15-May-40

Das Radha A 15-May-40

Sastry C V A 27871439 20-May-40

Nair T N R 9619106905 20-May-40

Panicker K P 27655869 21-May-40

Nair K A 25378208 22-May-40

Gopalkrishnan C V 25234961 31-May-40

Patel H D 28960472 1-Jun-40

Naik Uma 26462542 2-Jun-40

Govindan Kutty 25559521 3-Jun-40

Purwar R C 9833003042 4-Jun-40

Rao S M 27665013 7-Jun-40

Gandhi D P 27820809 8-Jun-40

Bhalla K C 27891708 9-Jun-40

Chandran G 27669481 15-Jun-40

Pawar Shantaram Vithal 26325275 15-Jun-40

Bhatti R T 28843461 17-Jun-40

Gupta Santosh K 25253598 17-Jun-40

Parameshwaran M 27450685 20-Jun-40

Srinivasa Rao S 27700556 21-Jun-40

Thomas P T 23-Jun-40

Kulkarni A V 25569037 26-Jun-40

Suryanarayanan C S 25340787 26-Jun-40

76-79 Years

Name Tel DOB

Vishwas Rao C S 1-May-36

Krishna Moorthy T S 27576843 4-May-36

Prabhudesai N A 25554891 10-May-36

Thodankar S R 24322205 15-May-36

Kerekatte S S 24451968 23-May-36

S.Seshagiri Rao 25286616 24-May-36

Kamath C S 9820617044 28-May-36

Vadke M G 28946343 1-Jun-36

Mohan A L 25517176 2-Jun-36

Gopalakrishnan C S 27651313 4-Jun-36

Mayekar S V 25513236 10-Jun-36

Chitre Virendra M 24451380 13-Jun-36

Shanmugam S 26252128 14-Jun-36

Jamsandekar S G 28211210 15-Jun-36

Thakur V L 25510352 15-Jun-36

Gangal D V 25416322 18-Jun-36

Shresta D N 27714688 18-Jun-36

Mahadevan V 27822315 23-Jun-36

Subramanian M 25514970 26-Jun-36

Krishnan L V 8-May-37

D'Souza T J 26429259 12-May-37

Deokar M R 25504781 16-May-37

Iyer N V 27821651 25-May-37

Kane D L 25376930 30-May-37

Apte Balwant Keshav 27668137 30-May-37

Menghani K T 25402518 1-Jun-37

Wadke P B 28020150 3-Jun-37

Thampi N S 11-Jun-37

Sonavane P C 14-Jun-37

Ramarathinam K 25289447 15-Jun-37

Prabhu Yeshwant Hari 26403323 23-Jun-37

Gajare S D 29-Jun-37

Vaidyanathan Meenakshy 25282153 1-May-38

C.R.P. Setty 427174892 7-May-38

Rawat S S 14-May-38

Arya R C 15-May-38

Sivaramakrishnan C K 27821813 19-May-38

Rao B L 27573854 28-May-38

Hirwe S P 21733358 28-May-38

Perira Una E 27570050 2-Jun-38

Padmavathy Sridharan 27654139 8-Jun-38

Kulkarni R J 28622571 9-Jun-38

Gupta R S 27714771 10-Jun-38


Velayudhan K M 27704039 14-Jun-38

Ravindran K K 27577616 16-Jun-38

Borkar B B 9819526574 16-Jun-38

Nayak V M 27895206 19-Jun-38

Vishwanathan N 24084033 20-Jun-38

Mary Antony 25362975 22-Jun-38

Prabhakar K R 24-Jun-38

Attarde R B 25583005 26-Jun-38

Deshpande A S 25580991 27-Jun-38

Srivastava S P 27665163 30-Jun-38

Damodaran S 27630159 30-Jun-38

Kulkarni V J 27687509 3-May-39

Joglekar S B 25534739 15-May-39

Iyer Lalita R 9819588292 15-May-39

Kundgolkar S 25430444 17-May-39

Gupta R K 25551666 17-May-39

Iyer S Ramakrishna 27705059 19-May-39

Phadke C L 26855430 19-May-39

Ramakrishna Iyer S 27891134 20-May-39

Nargundkar R S 27652374 26-May-39

Sankaran K 30-May-39

Mathur J D 27580384 1-Jun-39

Shirsat V T 40121436 8-Jun-39

Shah C H 26714307 10-Jun-39

Bhat K S 27577610 10-Jun-39

Sonawane K K 27570625 12-Jun-39

Nambisan P V 27749292 13-Jun-39

Prabhakaran K 27706503 14-Jun-39

Udupa R S 25273809 14-Jun-39

Ramanathan P V 25642507 15-Jun-39

Din Dayal Sood 27814621 19-Jun-39

Pillai Radha K 27578848 22-Jun-39

Raman S 25575315 30-Jun-39

80 yrs and above

Name Tel DOB

Joshi C P 25644503 27-May-25

B.K. Bhandary 0824-2481491 6-May-27

Mahajan L M 18-May-27

Vaidya A M 25367545 5-Jun-28

Desai B R 8-Jun-28

Karandikar P B 25837445 10-Jun-28

Surjeet Kaur 27687584 15-Jun-29

Thapar R K 28694500 17-Jun-29

Risbud V H 25443804 28-Jun-29

Gulavane S V 26114350 30-Jun-29

Potdar V K 26132463 1-May-30

Narayan A 25270652 10-Jun-30

Shah Ramesh K 25341775 15-Jun-30

Bivalkar N G 15-Jun-30

Gupta Anand Ram 27665740 16-Jun-30

Bhende D D 24450295 18-Jun-30

Murthy T S 27663703 30-Jun-30

Butani K L 25272325 26-May-31

Soman S D 24096842 4-Jun-31

Verma R S 25529037 1-May-32

Peshori L H 25516794 12-May-32

Gadgil M D 9604128502 20-May-32

Khandekar V Jayaram 24224660 26-May-32

Idicula K I 28-May-32

Iyer H Parashuram 28737079 20-Jun-32

Abraham K G 24-May-33

Subba Rao K 25584752 4-Jun-33

Mahav Rao L 25218547 12-Jun-33

Divekar M W 14-Jun-33

Ramachandran M 27878440 15-Jun-33

Wamanacharya G S 25012897 3-May-34

Dhandayutham R 9362106987 7-May-34

Thomas N J 25589767 9-May-34

Shetty N P 27570652 15-May-34

Jayadevan N C 27701506 16-May-34

Bhandiwad V R 9322591375 16-May-34

Pendurkar H K 25233985 18-May-34

Narurkar Lalit 25518764 19-May-34

Tripathi Krishna Chandra 27684965 22-May-34

Shanbhag M G 27650360 25-May-34

Thakur N V 25565482 27-May-34

Advani Savitri M 25679021 5-Jun-34

Nadkarni S S 26126413 10-Jun-34

Vaidya D N 25427692 18-Jun-34

Kirthi K N 24182392 21-Jun-34

Krishnamurthy S 25634309 26-Jun-34

Prasad J A 27701356 8-May-35

Narayanan M 27-May-35

Limaye Madhav Achyut 25564639 28-May-35

Nambiar P P V J 27896118 4-Jun-35

D'Souza Norbert 5-Jun-35

Parameswaran K T 9833518503 8-Jun-35

Rabindranath Ray 27704319 13-Jun-35

Thomas P D 14-Jun-35

Natarajan P N 27702477 15-Jun-35

Upendra D B 16-Jun-35

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.

Birth Day Greetings: Wishing a healthy and peaceful life to all members of Platinum Club – AERWA

------------- Special Birthday Celebration for a Special Person


The Managing Committee of AERWA celebrated 80th birthday (DoB March 27, 1935) of the man behind the success and growth of AERWA Shri P K Vaze on April 11, 2015. However, Shri Vaze himself has celebrated his 80th birthday by donating Rs 5000 to AERWA.

********************* Those who Left us behind: .

1. D V Godse (P-776) expired on 7-11-14 . He is survived by his wife and daughter.

2. V S Kadam (P-2070) Expired on 20-2-15. He is survived by his Wife and two sons.

3. Smt Radhika Kamat (P-1032) expired on 17-3-15. She is survived by one daughter

4. Shri M W NamJoshi (P-791) expired on 24-2-2015. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter.

5. Shri S N Sengupta- Dhruva Reactor Physics (P-1082) expired on 25-3-2015 at Kharghar. AERWA expresses its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families.

************* Letter to Editor 1. Received Rs11.2 Lakhs as Arrears due to Wrong Estimation of the Pension by the Dena Bank To, President/Secretary, AERWA I am a life member of AERWA (P-870). I am writing this (unfortunately a very long) email to bring to the notice of AERWA an experience regarding my father's pension. It is a typical example of ignoring the Office Memorandum by a bank and also by DOPPW. It also stands as an example of one-sided approach of DOPPW about pensioners' complaints. My father, Dr.R.T.Chitnis, retired from B.A.R.C. in 1984. He is receiving his pension through Dena Bank. After the implementation of recommendations of sixth CPC, his basic pension was revised and he received the arrears too. His total pension includes additional age-based quantum also.

Last year I realised that there is a major mistake in the revision of his basic pension. He was getting 30% less pension. This difference was due to '4.2based' pension being higher than '4.1Henceconsider it unless CPAO instructs them to do so. Hence, I wrote to CPAO and obtained PPO, a copy of which was received by Dena Bank also. My doubt proved to be true and my father's basic pension had to be much hcontacting bank again, bank revised the basic pension to a correct figure based on the new PPO. After repeated follow01.01.2008, which amounted to about Rs. 11.2 lakhs.As thepension, I requested the bank to pay the interest on the arrears as per point no. 34 of Master Circular Disbursement of Pension by Agency Banks [no. RBI/201415, dated Julcompensation at a fixed interest rate of 8 per cent should be paid for all delayed pension payments made since October 1, 2008. Accordingly, my father was expected to get interest of about Rs. 3.1 lack.After repeatedinterest, but based only on the date of receipt of new PPO, i.e. 11.04.2014 and not from 01.10.2008 as requested by us. (It was only about Rs. 35,000). Bank is not at all ready to take the responsibility of this lodelay in the payment of pension. Our request for getting interest since 01.10.2008 is based on the Office Memorandum issued by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions [no. 38/37 /08dated 14th October, 2008]. Para 4 of the this Memorandum clearly attributes the responsibility of revision and disbursement of the enhanced pension and arrears to the pension disbursing public sector banks. Moreover, it instructs the banks to disburse the same within one month from the date of Memorandum dated 01.09.2008. Accordingly, Dena Bank should have accepted the responsibility of the delayed payment of pension/arrears and should have paid the interest from 01.10.2008.On registering an on(DOPPW/P/2015/0041even DOPPW also upheld the bank's decision through a blind acceptance of the email sent from the Zonal Office of Dena Bank. This is clearly violation of DOPPW's aboveonly by Dena Bank, but ais doubtful whether DOPPW takes into consideration their own Office Memoranda or not.Present status is that the complaint is disposed off and the case is closed. I have requested Director (PP) to

Last year I realised that there is a major mistake in the revision of his basic pension. He was getting nearly 30% less pension. This difference was due to '4.2-based' pension being higher than '4.1-based' pension. Hence I approached Dena Bank. The bank refused to consider it unless CPAO instructs them to do so. Hence, I wrote to CPAO and obtained PPO, a copy of which was received by Dena Bank also. My doubt proved to be true and my father's basic pension had to be much higher than that assumed by the bank. On contacting bank again, bank revised the basic pension to a correct figure based on the new PPO. After repeated follow-ups, finally bank paid the arrears from 01.01.2008, which amounted to about Rs. 11.2 lakhs. As there was an inordinate delay in disbursal of pension, I requested the bank to pay the interest on the arrears as per point no. 34 of Master Circular - Disbursement of Pension by Agency Banks [no. RBI/2014-15/110, DGBA.GAD.No.H- 4/31.05.001/2014-15, dated July 1, 2014]. The circular states that a compensation at a fixed interest rate of 8 per cent should be paid for all delayed pension payments made since October 1, 2008. Accordingly, my father was expected to get interest of about Rs. 3.1 lack. After repeatedly pursuing the matter, the bank paid the interest, but based only on the date of receipt of new PPO, i.e. 11.04.2014 and not from 01.10.2008 as requested by us. (It was only about Rs. 35,000). Bank is not at all ready to take the responsibility of this long delay in the payment of pension. Our request for getting interest since 01.10.2008 is based on the Office Memorandum issued by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions [no. 38/37 /08-P&PW(A).pt.1 dated 14th October, 2008]. Para 4 of the this Office Memorandum clearly attributes the responsibility of revision and disbursement of the enhanced pension and arrears to the pension disbursing public sector banks. Moreover, it instructs the banks to disburse the same within one month from the date of issue of Office Memorandum dated 01.09.2008. Accordingly, Dena Bank should have accepted the responsibility of the delayed payment of pension/arrears and should have paid the interest from 01.10.2008. On registering an on-line complaint (DOPPW/P/2015/00418 dt. 05/02/2015), surprisingly, even DOPPW also upheld the bank's decision through a blind acceptance of the email sent from the Zonal Office of Dena Bank. This is clearly violation of DOPPW's above-mentioned Office Memorandum not only by Dena Bank, but also by DOPPW themselves. It is doubtful whether DOPPW takes into consideration their own Office Memoranda or not. Present status is that the complaint is disposed off and the case is closed. I have requested Director (PP) to


reopen the case. But I have doubt whether it will be done so. N.B. Meanwhile I approached Banking Ombudsman. Unfortunately, Ombudsman has also ruled in favour of bank only. Reply from Banking Ombudsman also includes copy of the same email sent by Zonal Office of Dena Bank. I am very sorry for this long narration. But I thought that the case should be known to AERWA, as there may be many more very old pensioners like my father (especially pre-1996 retirees), who are losing a substantial portion of their pension just due to lack of knowledge about the intricacies in the calculation of revised pension. It will be very much appreciated, if you advise something in this regard. Please contact for details: (Mob: 9869104026); Rajeev Chitnis 2. Cure Yourself: An e book named ' Cure Yourself' written by Dr. Piyush saxena (276 Pages; 33.8 MB) available at website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~ksrao/naturopathy/cure%20yourself.pdf It is an amazing book to cure many health problems using simple naturopathy techniques. Please read few pages every day and complete the book in a month. You will get amazing insight for cleaning liver, kidney, heart, blood etc. arvind g deshmukh; [email protected]

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**************** All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial

Workers-AICPI (IW)-(Base of 115.76 as on 1/1/2006)

Month CPI base

1982= 100

Twelve months

total

Twelve monthly average

%increase Above 115.76

for DA/DR

Jan-14 237 2802 233.50 101.71

Feb-14 238 2817 234.75 102.79

Mar-14 239 2832 236.00 103.87

Apr-14 242 2848 237.33 105.02

May-14 244 2864 238.67 106.17

Jun-14 246 2879 239.92 107.25

Jul-14 252 2896 241.33 108.48

Aug-14 253 2912 242.67 109.63

Sep-14 253 2927 243.92 110.71

Oct-14 253 2939 244.92 111.57

Nov-14 253 2949 245.75 112.29

Dec-14 253 2963 246.92 113.30

Jan-15 254 2980 248.33 114.52

Feb-15 253 2995 249.58 115.60

Union Cabinet Approved 6% DA hike with effect from 1.1.2015 (a total of 113%) wef 1/1/2015

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