INCOMETAX PENSIONERS FEDERATION.
NEW DELHI.
DATED: 14.9.2015.
Dear Comrade,
You must have
read from the Newspaper that the Government has extended the time limit for the
7th CPC to submit its report by four months. The Commission might
therefore submit its report by 31st December, 2015. No discussion on the report, if submitted on
31.12.2015 would be held in the quarter ended on 31.3.2016 as the Government
officials would be busy with the budget session of the Parliament. However, the reports emanating from the
Commission indicate that the Chairman wanted the report to be given to the
Government by 30th September, 2015.
Due to this uncertainty, the meeting we had planned to convene in
October, 2015 of the National Sectt. Of the ITPF was postponed, as the main
agenda was discussion on the recommendations of the 7th CPC. We must
in any case hold the said meeting as and when the report is made available and
formulates our stand on pension related matters.
Another
development is that the Government after a lot of dilly dallying has now
decided to concede the demand for one rank one pension to the Defence Personnel
with revision every five years. The
reason for the procrastination on the part of the Government was the probable
impact the decision would bring about on the civilian pension. The Government has, it seems, now come to the
conclusion that the public sentiments that might generate on the denial of one
rank one pension would be very great whereas it would be insignificant in the
case of civilian employees. Before the 7th
CPC one of the most important issues we have raised is the need to bring about
parity between the past and present pensioners
and have demanded that the formulation made by the 5th CPC in
the matter must be carried forward to be applicable to all pensioners who have
become so after 1.1.1986. The modified
parity which has been implemented would not in any way benefit persons who had
stagnated in a cadre for years while in service. We send herewith a copy of the letter written
by the Staff Side secretary, JCM National Council, Com. Shiv Gopal Mishra in
the matter. We would further request our
members to once again go through the memorandum we have submitted to the 7th
CPC especially the chapter dealing with the question of parity. Even if the parity is brought about, it would
not be anywhere equal to the dispensation made by the Government to the Defence
Personnel. i.e. one rank one pension with
in built revision of every five years.
During the
interregnum period between the National convention at Haridwar and to-date, the
Mumbai and Delhi Units have informed of certain activities. The Mumbai unit has taken certain concrete
steps to form the I.T. Pensioners Association.
Adhoc committee has already been formed.
The Delhi Unit had its annual General meeting on 3rd
September, 2015. The Karnataka Unit has
convened its annual general body meeting at Bangalore in the next month. We have appended a brief report of the Delhi
and Mumbai meetings for your information.
In our Haridwar Convention,
we had taken a decision to collect the information regarding the pending
disciplinary proceedings against our members.
We shall be grateful if the State Units will kindly collect the
requisite information and forward the same to us, so that we can compile the
same and take up the matter for an expeditious disposal with the authorities
With greetings ,
Yours
fraternally,
K.K.N.
Kutty
Secretary
General.
Copyof letter in No. A/cJV\CM-2015/7th CPC datd
11.9.2015 from Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra,
Secretary, Staff Side, National Council, JCM. 13/C/Feroseshah Road, New Delhi.
110 001 addressed to Justice Shri Ashok
Kumar Mathur, Chairman, Seventh Central Pay Commission, New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
Sub:
Parity between past and future pensioners.
While urging for
parity in pension, for past and future pensioners before the Seventh Central
Pay Commission, Staff Side, National Council/JCM vide Chapter IV Para 4.1. Submitted
as follows:-
“The Government have recently announced that
one Pension shall be implemented in
respect of Armed Forces so that the glaring disparity between the persons of
equivalent rank and status do not draw vastly unequal pensions if they retire
at different point of time is undone.
Already there is a complete parity in pension among the Judges of
Supreme Court, High Court and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India,
irrespective of the date of their retirement”.
Now the Government of India has accepted the demand for one rank one
pension in respect of Armed forces.
The detailed justification fo the same has
already been submitted in our aforesaid memorandum, as well as during our oral
evidence before the Central Pay Commission.
The Civilian employees of Central
Government have been waiting anxiously for implementation of the same equally
for them and hope that the Seventh Central Pay Commission would administer
justice by recommending “One rank one pension to all other past and future
pensioners irrespective of their date of retirement and remove the injustice
done to them so long.
Yours faithfully,
Sd/ Shiv Gopal Mishra.
Activities at Mumbai.
The comrades who
attended the National Convention at Haridwar of the Income tax Pensioners
Federation from Mumbai took the initiative to form a composite Association of
Pensioners of Income tax Deparment at
Mumbai. They invited about 35 comrades,
who were active in both the ITEF and the ITGOA while in service. 28 Comrades could attend the meeting. The rest seven comrades, while welcoming the
move and extending their full support to the effort expressed their inability
to attend the3 meeting due to their being out of Mumbai. The meeting , though a very small gathering, expressed the need for such an organization
in view of the great amount of
difficulties faced by the
pensioners in resolving some of
the unsettled issues. Com. V.K.
Sreedharan, former Secretary General ITGOA narrated the proceedings of the
meeting at Hardwar and informed the gathering that barring one or two States,
almost all States had sent in their representatives to attend the National
Convention. He said that the
organisation at the apex level would be a Federation and each State is supposed
to form a State association with specific constitution, bye laws and
rules. He also informed the members the
need for getting the Association registered before the Registrar of Societies
and the need for drafting the constitution to attune to the provisions of the
Societies Act of each State. Com. KKN.
Kutty attended the meeting and apprised
the members of the crux of the demands placed by the Staff Side of the JCM.
National Council before the 7th CPC.
He said that though the memorandum
was exhaustive, reasoning out the demands clearly, given the attitude of
the Government, many of the genuine issues might not be getting a favorable
response from the Government. The
Commission, though headed by a Justice of the Supreme Court is loaded with
bureaucrats who are duty bound to abide by the directive of the Finance
Ministry. With all the debilities, he
pleaded that the Pensioners must be optimistic as has been shown by the Defence
Service personnel raising their demand for one rank one pension. The comrades who assembled raised various
queries, which was replied by Com. Kutty.
The meeting decided to form an adhoc committee with Com. V.K. Sreedharan
as Chairman and Com. Ashok Salunkhe as the Convenor. They will work out modalities for enrolling
members and holding a State convention by
February, 2016. The meeting also
formed a legal committee to draft a suitable constitution for the association
taking into account the various provisions of the Maharashtra State Societies
Act. The ITEF comrades rendered all help and assistance
in the conduct of the meeting as the same was held in the shamiana at the
Income tax premises (Aayakar Bhawan) Mumbai.
Annual General meeting
at Delhi.
The first AGM of Delhi
I.T. Retired Persons welfare Association was held at Delh9i (Conference fall,
Income tax Office, Civic Centre, D. Block) on 3.9.2015. Com. Lajpat Rai,
President of the Association, presided over the function. The Chief Guest on the occasion was Shri
Sudhir Chandra, former Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes. Other Guests of honour were Shri P.J. Thomas,
former Chairman, CVC and former Chief
Secretarfy, Kerala, Com. Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secrfertaqry, AIRF and
Secretary, Staff Side, National Council, JCM, Com. K.K.N. Kutty, President
Confederation of CGE and workers, General Secretary, Incometax Pensioners
Federation. Com. Ashok Kanojia,
President, ITEF, CHQ. and Shri M>M. Kapoor of BPS greeted the meeting. The AGM was well attendedand the hall was
packed to the brim. Com. Lajpat Rai in his presidential address touched upo:
(a)
Expansion of membership
(b)
Corpus fund
(c)
Facility of room and guest
house
(d)
Excursion tour within India and
abroad;
(e)
CGHS related problems
` Com. Baswanad,
General Secretary gave a report of the
Assoiciation’s acitiviites of the last one year and Com. Aggarwal presented the
account. Com. Shiv Gopal Misra
enlightened the members of various pensioners’demands placed before the 7th
CPC by the Staff Side. Com. Kutty
detailed the efforts undertaken to form the ITPF and its first convention at
Haridwar. Shri P.C. Thomas addressed the house and greeted the members. Later, the members who have crossed the age
of 80 years were honoured.
To conclude the
AGM in a hilarious manner, a hasya kavi sammelan was organized in which two
renowed artists participated i.e. S/Shri Aggravanshi and Deepak Gupta. It was announced that the next AGM will be
held on 17th December, 2015
to observe Pensioners ‘day
.
Com.
KKN. Kutty addressing the Delhi AGM
On the diaz are (L to R)
Com. K.K.N. Kutty, Shri P.C.Thomas, Shri
Sudhir Chandra, Com.
Lajpat Rai, and Com. Shiv Gopal Mishra.
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