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.

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 5^th 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 7^th 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 is 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 for the C.G Officers, employees and pensioners. 

We know that the 23^rd 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 23^rd May, 2017.

C.G OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES & PENSIONERS COME IN LARGE NUMBERS AND MAKE IT A GRAND SUCCESS