INCOMETAX
PENSIONERS FEDERATION
NEW DELHI
Manishinath Bhawan,
A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,
New Delhi. 110 027.
E MAIL:
itpfchq@gmail.com
Website
address:itpfchq.blogspot.com
Dated: 28.8.2017.
Dear Comrades,
For some unavoidable reasons,
we are unable to
hold the proposed NE meeting of ITPF at New Delhi on 4th
September, 2017. The NE meeting had to
be deferred. We have been in touch with
our affiliates in this regard. We are
happy to inform you that the West Bengal Unit has come forward to host the
meeting in December, 2017. We have
proposed 17th December, 2017 for the meeting, which happens to be
Sunday and arranging accommodation would become easier for the host unit. However, we are awaiting for their final nod
in the matter and have requested them to issue the requisite communication the
moment, the venue and date is finalised.
This may, therefore, be taken as an advance message.
As has been informed earlier,
the NCCPA to which we are affiliated, regularly brings out the journal. The concord table prepared by the Department
of Pension to give effect to Option No. 3 is being published in the
journal. Since it is very difficult to
reproduce the entire table even on website, we have given the link in our
website, which our members may take advantage of. We have been given to understand that there
is no need, in the background of the concord table, for the individual
pensioner to make any application to the ZAO or anybody else. However, the affiliates may help our
comrades to get their pension revised if the third option is beneficial in
their case. The Standing Committee of
the National Council JCM has taken up various issues that have emanated from
the recommendations of the 7th CPC before the Government. The agenda items on pension related issues have been published in the
journal. The Government has now set up
the National Anomaly Committee. The last
date for sending items for inclusion in the agenda was 15th August,
2017. The journal carries all the items
we had proposed for inclusion in the agenda.
We appeal through you to all pensioners to kindly subscribe to the
journal which has an annual subscription rate of Rs. 60/-. Those who are in charge of the publication of
the journal had informed us of their inability to increase the number of pages
in view of the financial burden. The
subscriber base if widened would help them to serve you better, where all
orders and relevant documents could be published immediately on its release by
the Government.
The NCCPA had its NE meeting
held at Nagpur on 19th August, 2017.
We have appended to this letter the circular issued by them immediately
after the meeting conveying the various decisions taken at the meeting. The resolution adopted and the circular
issued, would give a fair idea of the course of deliberations at the NE meeting
and the conclusions arrived at.
One of the most important
programmes decided upon by the NCCPA is to organise an independent but massive dharna at Jantar Mantar on 25th
October, 2017. Between 10.30 AM and 3.30 PM.
They have also decided that the programme must have the participation of
atleast 1000-1500 comrades drawn from different parts of the country. As per their circular letter, we are to
mobilise atleast 200 comrades on behalf of ITPF. Taking into account, the relative strength of
the affiliates Associations of ITPF we have drawn up a quota for participation
in the programme, which is appended hereunder:- Kindly ensure that the quota
allotted to each affiliated unit is adhered to
and the required number of comrades are deployed to take part in the
programme at Delhi. Since we have manpower deficiency at the CHQ, we request
the affiliates to book their journey tickets and accommodation on line so that
they encounter no problem. The NCCPA has
agreed to set up a small committee with comrades from Delhi to take care of the
logistics and help the comrades to procure accommodation if sufficient
information is provided to them well in advance.
Kerala -05,
Tamilnadu, 15, AP-10, Karnataka-10, Mumbai,15, Nagpur-5, Gujarath-10, NE
region. 05, Rajasthan 15, UPWest -30, UP
East-10, Orissa -5, West Bengal -10, MP-10, Bihar, 05, Assam-05, Pune-05, Delhi
-35.
Finance: It has been reported
by the Finance Secretary that the subscription for the year 2015-16 and 2016-17
are due from most of the affiliates. The
non receipt of subscription has made us to be in arrears with NCCPA. We are likely to incur certain expenses for
the ensuing NE meeting as also the 25th October, dharna
programme. We extract hereunder the
subscription rates for your ready reference.
Membership upto 100 Rs.
500 p.a.
100-500 Rs.2000p.a
500-1000 Rs.
3000p.a.
1000-2000 Rs.
4000p.a.
2000- and above Rs.
5000p.a.
Presently our Bank account is operated by the
Secretary Genral and Finacne Secretary jointly.
The account is, therefore, in the joint name of the two comrades. i.e. K.K.N. Kutty and C.M. Badola. We give hereunder the details:
SB Account No. 6393451021.
BanK name and branch: Indian
Bank, Rajouri Graden Branch, New Delhi. 110 027
Ifsc: IDIB000R028
MICR 110019011
CBS Code: 665
If you are remitting the money
in our account directly, kindly write to us immediately the date and the amount
of payment made, so as to enable us to finalise our account and issue proper
receipt to you. Please also furnish us a
list of members as we are trying to explore the possibility of keeping a data
base at all India level so that any of
the pension revision in future, especially in the matter of family pension
would become useful.
We have been requesting the
affiliates to furnish certain data to submit our application for
registration. Regretfully, we must note
that many of the affiliates are yet to favour us with the requisite
information. Kindly go through our last
circular letter and do the needful in the matter, so that we would be able to
submit our application to the Registrar of the Societies.
To enable us to reach you out
quickly all secretaries are requested to furnish their e mail id to us so that
our circular letter besides it being made available on our website could be
sent over to you and enable you to see the contents thereof on your mobile
phone itself.
Please await a communication
from our West Bengal Unit about the impending NE meeting in December,
2017. In the meantime, make preparation
for the 25th October, Dharna programme as it must be an important
event in our forward journey. We must
make the programme a resounding success
for the Government’s decision to reject Option No. 1 was at the instance
of a self serving bureaucracy and the defined contributory pension is conceived
and designed by the rulers to direct our hard earned money to the speculative
market of stock exchange. The reversal
of the two important decisions is possible only through a sustained, prolonged
and gritty struggles. The other issues
in the charter will be settled on the pressure we would be able to exert in the
days to come. The Charter of demands is
under finalisation in consultation with the NCCP Sectt. members and would be
conveyed to you as soon as it is finalised.
Thanking you and with
greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
Encl: NCCPA Circular letter
dated 26.8,2017.
National Executive
Committee
meeting and
decisions.
The National
Executive Meeting of NCCPA was held at Nagpur on 19.08.2017 under the
Chairmanship of Comrade Shiv Gopal Mishra.. Excellent arrangements were made by
the Reception Committee headed by Comrades Dhaktod and Petekar.
Comrade Shiv
Gopal Mishra elaborately dealt with the attitude of the Government and the
official side on 7th CPC related issues of both employees and
pensioners. He also narrated that Option Number 1 has been taken up as an anomaly in the NAC
for discussion. Several other issues including the NJCA meeting scheduled in
September and the impending indefinite strike by the Central TUS and
Federations of Central, State Government and PSUs were covered by him during
his speech.
The subject
session that commenced thereafter was chaired by Com. S.S.Roy, working
president, NCCPA. The discussion on the items of agenda was initiated by the
Deputy Secretary General Comrade Pavitra Ranjan Chakraborti ably supplemented
by the other Deputy Secretary General Comrade K.Ragavendran. The Secretary
General Comrade KKN Kutty could not attend the meeting due to his sudden
illness. More than 90% of the Office Bearers and National Executive Members
attended the meeting despite the situation of flood and torrential rains in
different parts of the country. A lively discussion on the agenda items
followed. The following decisions were
taken at the meeting Com. K. Raghavendran moved the resolution which contained
the crux of discussions at the meeting and on the future course of NCCPA
functioning.
Decisions
and Resolution:
1. Option 3 being the belated
acceptance of the demand of parity by pensioners is welcome. However, fixing
the notional pay of Pre-2016 Pensioners in the replacement scales instead of
actual pay scale provided for to the serving employees by successive pay
commissions is an irritant and requires to be removed.
2. Option 1 as recommended by the 7th CPC being feasible to be implemented ought to
have been retained as it would provide better pension for those who stagnated
in the part for no fault of theirs. Rejection of option.1 as infeasible is not
only unprecedented, untenable but unethical too especially viewed from the
angle that the top bureaucracy had a personal axe to grind in its rejection.
The meeting endorsed the correct stand taken by the Staff Side JCM National
Council to treat the same as another option for pensioners.
3. The continued adamancy of the Government in refusing to grant the
benefit of fixing pension to Pre-2006 Pensioners from 1.1.2006 based on the pay
scales implemented to the post or cadre in which the Pensioner had retired or
dead is unjustified. The rejection by Department of Expenditure even after
several courts decision in favour of higher pay scales instead of replacement
scales and the acceptance and implementation of the judgment in the case of the
litigants shows the double standard of the Government. This benefit should be
granted to all Pre-2006 Pensioners.
4. While welcoming the orders for admission of P&T Pensioners in
CGHS Scheme without any conditions by withdrawing the retrograde orders of the Health
Ministry, it is found that the decision
that the beneficiaries must make the one time lump sum payment @ post 7th CPC rate is
unjustified. The late admission in to CGHS belatedly after two decades delay
should not result in penalizing the past Pensioners. The rate of subscription
at the time of retirement should alone be the charges.
5. The discrimination against some other departmental pensioners who
are continue to be denied entry into CGHS must be ended.
6. While ending discrimination to P&T Pensioners, the Directorate
General of CGHS has issued another discriminating order to preclude the CG
Employees and CG Pensioners in Union Territories from joining CGHS. This order
also aims to send out those employees and pensioners wrongly admitted in to CGHS.
This stand of the Government is totally unjust and should be withdrawn.
7. Many important positive recommendations of the 7th CPC on
health related issues like (1) Merger of existing Postal Dispensaries with
CGHS; (2) Issue of Medi-insurance Cards to employees and pensioners to
facilitate cashless medical treatment; (3) Merger of all existing different
medical systems into one single large umbrella medical system for CG Employees
and CG Pensioners; (4) Extending the benefit under CS MA Rules 1944 to Pensioners
also to end the disparity between the employees and pensioners needs to be
expedited for positive implementation.
8. While the doubling of the existing rate of Fixed Medical Allowance
from 500/- to 1000/- is welcome, the fixing of FMA @ 1000/- after 7th
CPC while the employees of PF Department are being paid @ 2000/- per month even
during 6th CPC period is very less in comparison to the mounting
medical costs. The FMA must be enhanced to 2000/- per month.
9. Many orders are not being implemented in a time-bound manner. Due to
this the aging pensioners cannot get the benefits in time. The GO on extending
full pension to Pre-2006 Pensioners who had retired without putting 33 years of
qualifying service; the GO on fixation of pension on the basis of ‘pay in the pay
band’ instead of ‘minimum of pay band’ w.e.f. 1.1.2006 for all Pre-2006
Pensioners; the issue of revised PPOs to
all Pre-2006 Pensioners etc were either inordinately delayed or still being
delayed. The main reason for such non-implementation or slow implementation is
due to staff shortage in accounting offices. Under such circumstances the
recent 12th May, 2017 orders also is likely to be delayed in many
departments. Therefore drawing of the services of qualified retired officials
to function as ‘implementation cells’ to speed up the work under the
supervision of serving Accounts Officers in all accounting offices may be
considered to facilitate completion of work of Refixation of pension to all
Pre-2016 Pensioners before 30.09.2017.
10. The Pay Commission and also the Government have not come forward to
consider the issues of rationalizing the additional pension and reducing the
period of commutation of pension. The additional pension system should be
improved and the period of commutation should be reduced to 10 years.
11. The grant of additional pension should be given on attaining the age
of 80, 85,90,95,100 instead of waiting for the completion of the above ages as
per the verdict of Bengaluru CAT.
12. The recovery of income-tax from Pensioners is most unjustified. The
Government should immediately consider payment of pension net taxes.
13. The National Executive has resolved to authorize the National
Secretariat to chalk out appropriate Programme of Action on the above demands.
The under-mentioned organisational
decisions are also taken unanimously:
1. NCCPA organization should be strengthened by approaching new
organizations for affiliation; strengthening the existing affiliates with more
membership; forming State COC of NCCPA in all States.
2. The State units of affiliates will get in touch with other
Pensioners Associations operating in the State and get them associated with
NCCPA.
3. This National Executive Committee meeting of NCCPA calls upon all
its affiliates to take all possible steps to join the agitational programmes
chalked out by all organisations of serving employees and the Central trade
Unions.
4. Extending total solidarity to NFPE sponsored strike on 23.08.2017
for getting the GDS Committee recommendations immediately implemented.
5. NCCPA units and affiliates will take all possible steps to take part
in the mass Dharna programme stated for 9,10,11 Nov. 2017 at Delhi under the
auspices of the joint platform of Central Trade Unions.
6. NCCPA will organize an independent programme to project the CG
pensioner related issues and most
prominently against NPS
Massive Dharna at the National Capital: DELHI.
In deference
to the decision of the National
Executive, consultations were held amongst the Secretariat members about the
feasibly of organizing an independent programme by NCCPA. The consensus is that
the NCCPA must organize a massive Dharna at Janter-Manter, New Delhi on
25.10.2017 from 11.00 AM to 3.00 PM eliciting participation of members of all
affiliates and from all states. To make the programme successful, a serious
campaign will be undertaken by the National Leadership consisting of President,
Working President, Vice President Secretary General, two Deputy Secretary
Generals. Detailed circular will be issued shortly. Affiliates and unites are
requested to convey the issues/ demands to be included in the Charter
immediately on receipt of this letter.
The Office bearers and the National Executive
Members especially the Chief Executives of affiliated organizations and the
State CGPA organizations are requested to mobilize and ensure the participation
of the largest number of pensioners in the Programme to highlight our issues
before the Government. The Charter of Demands is enclosed.
With Greetings,
Comradely Yours,
Sd/-
KKN Kutty
Secretary General
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OF NCCPA HELD AT NAGPUR
ON 19.08.2017 ON SOME BASIC ISSUES OF CG PENSIONERS AFTER THE IMPLEMENTEATION
OF 7th CPC RECOMMENDATIONS:
The National Executive of the
National Coordination Committee had discussed various aspects of the 7th
CPC recommendations and the implementation of them by the Central Government.
The attitude of the Government viz., rejecting some of the recommendations made
like the Option Number 1 of pension fixation in favour of the pensioners on the
grounds of non-feasibility but accepting many recommendations made by the CPC
against the interests of the employees without any modifications like rejection
of many allowances etc is deplorable. The attitude of the Government is not
only retrograde but also time consuming. The tactics to form committees and
delay the matters for several months in order to tire out the employees and
pensioners is condemnable.
The Central Government has finally
rejected Option Number 1 fixation of pension to Pre-2016 Pensioners after much
delay. The recommendation of the Pay Commission for giving the benefit of
number of increments earned by the Pensioner in his last stage of employment
would be more beneficial to a section of Pensioners than the Option Number 3
offered and implemented by the GO dated 12.05.2017. There were scores of
Government Employees who stagnated for years without any promotion before their
superannuation. This type of stagnation was pronounced to those sections for
whom the MACP system was not extended before 2008. The Option Number 1 would
have been more beneficial to those Pre-2008 retirees. The Option Number 3 is no
doubt an improvement to Option Number 2 of fixation by applying 2.57 fitment
factor; but still the better benefit under Option Number 1 to those Pensioners
has been out-rightly rejected by the Pension High Level Committee and the
Government in the name of non-availability of records of increments for nearly
18% of Pensioners. The stand taken to reject Option Number 1 despite the
arguments of the Staff Side and Pensioners Associations to convince the
authorities that reconstruction of records is not impossible even for those 18%
cases of pensioners is unjust. This National Executive is of the considered
opinion that the rejection of Option Number 1 of pension fixation is
authoritative and unjustified and based on wrong notions and arguments.
Secondly, the Option Number 3
implemented in lieu of Option Number 1 contains a basic flaw. The Option Number
3 is nothing but the recommendations of 5th CPC for pension fixation
by notionally fixing the salary in the fitment table of successive pay
commissions to the Pre-2016 Pensioners also and finally fixing 50% of the
notionally arrived last pay drawn with reference to the Pay Matrix Table of the
7th CPC. In doing so the important aspect of 5th CPC to
fix the salary in the new scale of pay implemented to the post or cadre in
which the pensioner had retired or died is ignored by the Government. Instead
the pension is calculated only on the basis of the replacement scales. Unless
and otherwise the full aspect of 5th CPC recommendation is
implemented, the Option Number 3 formula also is denying the full benefit to
many pensioners in whose cases their cadre or post got any upgraded pay scale
through successive pay commissions. As the Government had agreed to implement
OROP to Veteran Pensioners, similar fitment benefit to Civilian Pensioners also
by calculating notionally in the same pay scale granted to the serving
employees would have rendered justice. This National Executive urges the
Government to reconsider this aspect and issue necessary orders to set right
the flaw.
In nut shell, this National
Executive resolves to reiterate its considered opinion that the Pensioners
should be given the choice to opt between the Options 1, Option 2, and Option 3
with the element of higher pay scales granted to the cadre or post.
This National Executive notes with
concern that the Government is obstinate in refusing the fixation benefit of
pension in the higher scales of pay implemented to the post or cadre despite
several court cases went in favour of the Pre-2006 Pensioners. The Pre-2006
Pensioners were denied the benefit of higher scales of pay given to the serving
employees from 1.1.2006 and on approaching the court of law many pensioners got
the benefit implemented w.e.f. 1.1.2006. The Executive notes that based on this
fact the Department of Pension & Pensioners welfare had recommended to
Finance Ministry for extending the benefit to all similarly placed Pre-2006 Pensioners.
Unfortunately the Department of Expenditure had showed adamancy and refused to
grant the benefit even today. It is also unfortunate that when this issue was
taken to the PMO for redressal, the PMO had also taken an unjustified position
that since the Finance Ministry had taken a position it cannot be reversed.
This Executive notes that PMO is the final authority for all issues and the
opinion of Department of Expenditure cannot be supreme against the directions
of several courts of the land. This National Executive resolves to urge upon
the Government to come down from the adamant position and extend the benefit of
fixation of pension to all Pre-2006 Pensioners based on the upgraded pay scale
if any was implemented to the post or cadre in which the Pre-2006 Pensioner had
retired or died.
This National Executive of NCCPA
notes with satisfaction that at last the P&T Pensioners also are allowed to
enter the CGHS system without any discrimination through the GO dated
19.07.2017. However, we note that since this is a very belated step taken after
two decades of discrimination that prevented many P&T Pensioners retired
between 1998 and 2017 from joining the CGHS on payment of subscriptions at the
prevailing rate at the time of their retirement. The present order ending the
discrimination of the P&T Pensioners demands them to pay at the post-7th
CPC rate of subscriptions. We all know that the post-7th CPC rates
are fixed based on the new higher pay scales after 7th CPC. Fixing
the same rate of subscription to all Pre-2016 pensioners irrespective of the
year of their retirement is unjustified and exorbitant. This National Executive
of NCCPA resolves to urge upon the Government for necessary reconsideration to
order to fix the rate of subscription commensurate to their year of retirement.
At the same time this National
Executive notes that the Health Ministry’s objection to P&T Pensioners
alone was withdrawn to facilitate inclusion of willing P&T Pensioners into
CGHS while some other smaller departments are still out of the ambit of CGHS.
This discrimination shall go. There shall be no discrimination for any
Pensioner of any department in the matter of joining CGHS on the untenable plea
that a separate Dispensary System is in existence for that department. In addition
the CGHS Directorate General has issued a
recent order on 21st July declaring the CG Employees and CG
Pensioners in Union Territories are not entitled to join CGHS and those who
were erroneously admitted also have to be sent out. This order is most
unjustified and while correcting an injustice the Government is trying to
introduce another injustice to the employees and pensioners of Union
Territories. This Executive urges for immediate withdrawal of 21st
July orders also.
There are many other health
related recommendations of the 7th CPC that requires immediate
decision by the Government. The recommendations (1) to merge the existing
Postal Dispensaries with CGHS; (2) to issue Medi-insurance Cards to employees
and pensioners to ensure cashless treatment in authorized private hospitals;
(3) to merge various departmental vise health systems to form one broad medical
system for the Government Employees and Pensioners; and (4) all pensioners also
to be made eligible to medical treatment on par with the serving employees
under CS MA Rules 1944, require positive approval by the Government. The
Pensioners are the senior citizens whose medical requirements are very
important at their old age. The present flaws in the existing medical systems
should be removed by accepting the recommendations of the Pay Commission to end
any discrimination between the serving employees and the Pensioners.
The National Executive of NCCPA
notes that the Government has come forward to double the Fixed Medical
Allowance from 500/- to 1000/- per month. This increase is a welcome step no
doubt. But one cannot deny the fact that when a section of the Government
Employees like the PF Department were granted 2000/- per month as FMA even
under 6th CPC time, fixing the FMA after 7th CPC to only
1000/- is not meeting the requirements of today’s medical cost. This National
Executive therefore resolves to urge upon the Government to reconsider and
enhance the FMA to not less than 2000/- per month.
This National Executive wishes to
bring to the notice of the Authorities that several orders are not implemented
in a time-bound manner by all departments so that the aging pensioners can get
the benefits earlier. The GO on extending full pension to Pre-2006 Pensioners
who had retired without putting 33 years of qualifying service has not been
implemented to all eligible such Pensioners in many States. The implementation
of GO on fixation of pension on the basis of ‘pay in the pay band’ instead of
‘minimum of pay band’ w.e.f. 1.1.2006 for all Pre-2006 Pensioners took a lot of
time. The issue of revised PPOs to all Pre-2006 Pensioners is still not
completed in many States despite the position reflecting in the SCOVA meeting
minutes that almost all Pensioners had been issued with revised PPOs. The main
reason for non-implementation or slow implementation is because of the existing
staff shortage in accounting offices. This may adversely affect the
implementation of the recent 12th May, 2017 orders also. Therefore
this National Executive resolves to urge upon the Government to cause to order
drawing of the services of qualified retired officials to function as
‘implementation cells’ to speed up the work under the supervision of serving
Accounts Officers. This Executive also urges that this Refixation work under
Option Number 3 shall be completed to all Pre-2016 Pensioners before
30.09.2017.
The National Executive also notes
with concern that several issues like the revamping of additional pension;
release of commuted portion of pension after 10 years have neither been
considered by the 7th CPC nor by the Government. This Executive
resolves to urge upon the Government to come forward to refix the quantum of
additional pension in a more rationalistic manner. This Executive also urges
the Government to come forward to pass the order in consonance with the order
of Bengaluru CAT that the additional pension is payable on attaining the age of
80, 85, 90, 95, 100 instead of on completing the above ages. This Executive
also urges the Government that persisting with the present time limit of 15
long years for returning the commuted portion of pension is fully unjustified
and it requires to be revisited to reduce the time to 10 years.
The demand for exempting the
pension from income tax is not at all receiving the attention of Government
despite the fact this demand has been vociferously raised by the Pensioners
Organizations for long. It is highly unjustified to tax the pension of the
government servants who had toiled for the nation throughout his working life.
The Refixation of ceiling for income-tax now and then was only temporary
solution to the problem. It is observed that recently that trend also has
stopped and we could not find any change of ceiling for income-tax. This
National Executive of NCCPA urges the Government to come forward to accept the
demand for payment of pension net taxes.
The National Secretariat is hereby
authorised by this National Executive to fix up appropriate Programme of action
on all the above issues.
RESOLUTION ON
BUILDING THE ORGANISATION OF NCCPA
The National executive of NCCPA is
of the firm opinion that the growth of the united platform of pensioners’
movement alone is the guarantee to face the onslaught of the Government on
pension and social security. NCCPA is the only class conscious apex
organization for unifying all CG Pensioners under one roof and effectively
project the issues of CG Pensioners for appropriate settlement. The need to
strengthen the NCCPA is therefore paramount.
Both strengthening NCCPA at the
CHQ level and strengthening it at State level are important though both are
complimenting each other. The strengthening at CHQ level can be concentrated by
approaching the existing pensioners’ organizations for affiliating with the
NCCPA. The strengthening of the existing affiliates of NCCPA also can
contribute to the strengthening of NCCPA CHQ. As far as the States are
concerned, it is our responsibility to found State COC of NCCPA with the state
organizations of our affiliates (both CGPA and Departmental wise Affiliates).
Various state level functioning CGPA organizations also can be approached for
joining in the State COC of NCCPA. We are witnessing that for lack of a strong
platform of CG Pensioners many issues of Pensioners are unable to be
effectively projected before the Government. The solution of pensioners’ issues
is left to the mercy of the Government and Authorities through SCOVA and by
approaching the doors of courts that takes a longer time. Even after favourable
judicial pronouncements the Government is in the habit of denying the benefit
to all similarly placed candidates, again against the Supreme Court Judgment. A
stronger voice of united pensioners alone can guarantee earlier solutions to
many vexed issues.
There are also issues like the
NPS, Attack on Pensioners and the danger of bringing all existing employees and
pensioners also under the NPS in future with the help of PFRDA Act that gives
the Government the power to do so at its will.
This National Executive therefore
calls upon all its Affiliates (both CGPA and Departmental wise Associations) to
take all the initiative for founding State COC of NCCPA as a measure of
strengthening the united movement of CG pensioners on one hand and to work for
broader unity of all Pensioners like the Central, State and PSU Pensioners
Associations on the other.
RESOLUTION ON
NATONAL PENSION SCHEME
This National Executive meeting
held of 19.08.2017 at Nagpur notes with utter dismay and expresses its grave
concern on the stand taken by the Government of India on the National Pension
Scheme introduce from 01.01.2004. A demand was placed before the 7th
CPC to scrap that contributory pension scheme and to bring all the CG Employees
and others in defined and assured pension scheme. The 7th CPC
refrained itself on the plea that the issue is not available in their term of
reference. The Government formed a Committee with a view to strengthen the NPS.
This meeting observes with hope
that Confederation of CG Employees & Workers and the All India State
Government Employees Federation had decided some phased programme of action to
fight back the situation.
This National Executive Committee
meeting of NCCPA calls upon all its affiliates to take all possible steps to
join the programmes on this issue and to generate public opinion by staging
dharna, rallies, street corner meetings etc in the coming days.
RESOLUTION ON
IMPLEMENATION OF GDS COMMITTEE REPORT
The National Executive Committee
meeting of NCCPA held at Nagpur on 19.08.2017 notes with grave concern that the
Government of India is following the tactics of delaying the implementation of
GDS Committee Report by way of setting up Committees on various pleas. National
Federation of Postal Employees is going to stage one day strike on 23.08.2017
demanding implementation of GDS Committee recommendations. This National
Executive Committee meeting of NCCPA is whole heartedly supporting the proposed
strike and calls upon all the affiliates to stand by the striking employees on
the day of strike by staging solidarity type of programme on 23.08.2017.
ON IMPLEMENTING
INTERNATIONAL PENSIONERS DAY ON 1st OCTOBER
The WFTU Trade Union International
(Pensiones & Retired) has issued a call to observe the 1st
October 2017 as the international day of fight for pensioners’ Rights. It is
the regular practice of WFTU to observe October 1st every year on
some important social causes and the selection of this year October 1st
as the International Day of fight for Pensioners’ rights by the WFTU TUI
(P&R) clearly marks the danger to which the pensioners of all the countries
are exposed under liberalization. This National Executive meeting of NCCPA
resolves to call upon all our affiliates to observe the 1st October
2017 as International day of fight for Pensioners’ Rights.
RESOLUTION ON
SOLIDARITY WITH THE CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS
The National Executive Meeting of
NCCPA held at Nagpur on 19.08.2017 welcomes the decision taken by the Central
Trade Unions and Federations and Confederations and Associations of Central
Government, State Government and Public sector like the BSNL, Banks, Insurance
etc to organise a series of Programmes against the economic policies and the
onslaught on the working Class. This National executive expresses its total
solidarity with the Programme of Action of Indefinite strike to be launched by
the Indian Working Class unitedly. This Executive also calls upon all our
affiliates to mobilize maximum membership to Delhi to participate on 10th
November in the three days dharna programme to be organised in Delhi from 9th
to 11th of November, 2017 as a prelude to the impending indefinite
strike. All our affiliates will concentrate full mobilization on the second day
of the three days dharna in order to focus the total solidarity of pensioners
as a community to the struggle of the working class.
Charter of demands.
CHARTER OF
DEMANDS.
1. Implement
Option No. 1. Recommended by the 7th CPC .
2. Revise
the pension of all BSNL Pensioners on IDA pay scale with 15% fixation benefit.
3. Revise
the pension of all pensioners of the Central Autonomous bodies.
4. (a)
Notional fixation of pay under Option No. 3. Must be based on the pay
scales/Pay levels of the cadre or grade from which an employee retired.
(b)
Implement the judgements of the Courts in the case of all pre-2006 pensioners,
whose notional pay for the purpose of pension must be on the basis of the pay
level/Grade Pay or pay scale of the grade/cadre from which he/she has retired.
5. (a)
Extend the benefit of the CCS(MA) Rules to all pensioners who are not covered
by the CGHS (b) Do not discriminate the pensioners of the Union Territory;
bring all pensioners under the coverage
of CGHS.
6. Increase
the FMA to Rs. 2000/- as has been
granted to the PF pensioners w.e.f 1.1.2016
7. Raise
the minimum pension to Rs. 12,000/- (2/3rd of the minimum wage) and
make pension net of income tax.
8. Restore
the commutation loss of pension after 10 years
9. Provide
increased rates of pension on attainment of the age of 70 years
10. Restore
the Defined benefit pension scheme as
was in vogue prior to 1.1.2004 in respect of all Central Government employees
by scrapping the Defined contributory pension scheme
