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.
No comments:
Post a Comment