INCOME TAX PENSIONERS FEDERATION.
New Delhi.
Dated: 29th
March, 2015
Dear Comrades,
I have sent you the following SMS.
“All India
convention of IT Pensioners Fedn. at Haridwar on 4th June, 2015.
Please attend. Details and notice on website”
As you are
aware, we have been trying to organize and All India body for the Income tax
Pensioners for some time now. Quite a
number of our retired comrades are in various organizations. As has been made clear at the preparatory
committee meeting, we do not intend to disturb the said arrangements. The
organizations of employees retiring from each department separately was
thought by the Confederation and NCCPA as the best means of organizing large majority of them. We are fully aware that the pensioners constitute
one class, especially when the pay master happens to be the Government of
India. We have to function unitedly in order to ensure that our voice is heard.
During the
hearing before the 7th CPC,
the Staff had deployed the undersigned to present the memorandum. One of the issues that came up for discussion
was the retirement benefit. The
Commission was categorical that they could not do anything with the New Pension
Scheme as it has become now an Act of
Parliament. Presently about 20-25% of the
serving employees are covered by the New Pension scheme. There is going to be a long drawn out
struggle. The existing benefit enjoyed
by the Pensioners may not last in the situation that is getting created. In the given situation effecting improvement
over the pension viz. the parity question, the discrimination in the matter of
health care, the meager amount of allowance for outpatient treatment, the
scores of problems with the CGHS, the computation of pension itself, are not
going to be easy.
Our attempt
as mentioned in the preceding paragraph
is to unite and bring into the organizational forum more and more number of retired
personnel.
We have
drafted a constitution on the basis of the discussions we had at Mumbai in the
preparatory committee meeting. In a few
places, the I.T. Pensioners are already working. In other places, we have to make attempt to
organize them. Wherever it is in
existence, we have tried to ascertain the office bearers of the
organization and invite them to
participate in the convention. We are
ascertaining further as to who are the office bearers and would invite them to
the convention.
The main
agenda for the convention is to further deliberate upon the provisions of the
Constitution and adopt the same so that the organization ITPF can come into
existence formally. The following agenda
is proposed.
(a) Adoption
of the Constitution.
(b) Discussion
on the pension benefits in general and the submissions before the 7thCPC.
(c) Organizational
set up at the CHQ and at the state levels.
(d) Election
of office bearers.
(e) Any
other issues of importance with the permission of the Chair.
You may
kindly go through the agenda and suggest additions/alterations etc. We propose to issue the formal notice by the
end of this month.
With greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
KKN
Kutty
