Friday 5 May 2017

Oppose the Cabinet decision on 03.05.17 rejecting the VII CPC recommendation on Pension fixation as per Option 1

7th Pay Commission Pension fixation as per Option 1 is more beneficial than the Option 2 and the method approved by Cabinet.
The Pension Committee and Cabinet have rejected the recommendations of VII CPC as NOT FEASIBLE, even though we have tried our best to convince the Pension Committee that it is Feasible. The intention behind the Cabinet decision dated 29.06.2016 to constitute a committee to examine the feasibility of Option-1 recommended by 7th CPC was to deny the Option-1 parity which is more beneficial to pre-2006 pensioners than the 5th CPC Parity. Option-I parity of 7th CPC is more beneficial to many employees.

The Central Govt. has succumbed to the machination of the bureaucrats and rejected option No.1 in the Cabinet meeting held on 03.05.17. The alternative suggestion put forth by the official side amounts to the revival of the 5th CPC formula, which was once rejected by the same bureaucracy on the ground of high financial outflow.  This has been done only because that option No.1 would not be beneficial for the All India Services Personnel and the organised Group A Services, who are not to suffer any stagnation at any point of time in their service.  The option No.1 would have benefitted all others including those Group A personnel who do not belong to the above two categories. 

The mischievous machination was writ at large right from the day one, when the Pension department objected to the recommendation of the 7th CPC on pension fitment formula.  We must remember that the Pension department and the Department of Expenditure together dragged lakhs of pensioners up to Supreme Court for getting the limited modified parity to be implemented.  It would be in the fitness of things, that we remember that at no previous occasion, any Government has taken the decision to reject the recommendation of the Pay Commission in the case of pensioners.  Even our reasonable suggestion that the alternate suggestion of the official side could be treated as option No. 3 was not palatable.  Such an option would have benefitted all.  Even some of the feared anomalies in case of option No.1 being implemented would have vanished had the suggestion of the official side is treated as Option No. 3. 

In every case, Government documents in one form or the other are available.  Even according to the official side, the service books are available in the case of 82% of the pensioners.  The rejection is not only untenable but also absolutely mischieviuous to deny the benefit to a section of pensioners, since those in power does not get a benefit out of this.

The primary objective behind setting up of various committees was to delay decision and consequently the benefit to the C.G Officers, employees and pensioners

PARTICIPATE IN MASS DHARNA ON 23.05.17 IN FRONT OF FINANCE MINISTER’S OFFICE, NORTH BLOCK, NEW DELHI

·    Increase minimum pay and fitment formula.
·    Revise allowances including HRA w.e.f 01.01.2016.
·    Grant option No.1 pension parity recommended by
      VII CPC.
·    Revise pension and grant dearness relief to
     Autonomous body pensioners.
·          Honour the assurances given by Group of Ministers.


We know that the 23rd May will be very hot in Delhi, unbearable for the aged pensioners, Officers & employees to register their protest.  However, it becomes incumbent upon us to join the struggle which is conceived to oppose the Government in power for the nugatory attitude towards the C.G employees in general and the pensioners in particular.  We, therefore, request those C.G Pensioners, Officers & employees, who are residing in and around Delhi to take part in the Dharna programme before the Finance Minister’s office, North Block, New Delhi on 23rd May, 2017.


All India DRDO Technical Officers Association (AIDTOA) shall continue its struggle for Option-I parity along with Confederation of Central Government Gazetted Officers Organisations (CCGGOO), Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers (CCGEW),  National Coordination Committee of Pensioners Association (NCCPA) etc.

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