Respected Modiji
The Honourable Prime Minister of India
Sansad Bhaban
New Delhi.
Re : Unusual delay in taking decision in favour of bank retirees, most intellectual composition in Indian.
Society having vast knowledge with qualitative service rendered for last 30 to 40 years in banking sector and also having constitutional right of Pension Updation and revision of family pension ,100% DA neutralization and retrospective effect of gratuity from 1.01.2016 as applied to the employees Central govt and other Central govt undertakings by the competent authority in Ministry of Finance even after favourable judgement in long drawn battle in court of law.
We, on behalf of leading face book group of Bank Retirees in social media having membership of more than 5750 and carrying sentiments of 5 lakhs Bank retirees throughout the country, most respectfully submit to you the following facts for your favourable consideration in last lap of our life after moving like shuttle cork in different departments of Ministry of Finance and other department in your governments and your bureaucrats have treated like orphan even being senior and Super citizen of the country..
01. We have served 30 to 40 years in Bank with utmost sincerity and commitment of banking service to the people of India with honest intention to implement all Central Govt schemes routed through banking sector like Pradhanmantry Abasan Yogona,Jandhan Prakalpa,Bete Bachao and Beti Parao lending to farmers for growing crop and financial assistance to downtrodden people in Banking system..Service of bank retirees was acknowledged by your hard days during demonetisation with roar of almost all the opposition political parties of the country..But with our utter surprise we have received denial mood of bureaucrats of your government about right of pension updation which stands with same status even after 25 to 30 years in pensioner's life.
This is a great neglect and dishonour to dignified Super Senior Citizen of the Country.by the competent authority of your Govt.Family pension which is unbearable position of 15% of the last drawn pension figure of alive pensioner have never been revised. Family pensioners are drawing a paltry pension inadequate to in present day context of price index.and which is also unprecedented example considering the pensioners in other sectors of Central and State Govt sectors. where it was implemented at regular interval.during pay revision of employees...
02.On account of this non-updation of pension, a situation has raised that a very senior executive in the rank of General Manager who retired 20 years back, is getting lower pension than his subordinate staff retired recently affecting right to leave with dignity and reputation. .
03. In recent concluded wage revision talk with IBA and Bank Union on 25.05.2015, none of the issues of the bank retirees were favourably discussed and in turn IBA issued a damaging Record Note of Discussion saying that there is no contractual relationship with the banks and retirees.when it is categorically told in the book of law that pension is differed wage to spend peaceful life of bank retirees after retirement.
04. With regard to cost factor, the PSU banks have adequate/enough pension funds at the end of each financial year including last one as on 31.03.2018
a)The corpus of Pension fund as on 31/03/2018 is of more than Rs.2 Lakhs crore grown over the years by the employees contribution and matching contribution of employers with accrued interest..
b) The payouts from the fund is very low provided pension fund was not sucked by respective bank to show their profit figure in balance sheet..
We pray your kind intervention to examine the following facts and call necessary documents from appropriate authority. for redress of grievances of long pending issue of Bank Retirees.
within March 2019 with strong decision at your end.
1. the records and minutes of wage revision discussions in which issues of pensioners were discussed and finally taken the stand as mentioned in Record Note of Discussion dated 25.05.2015.
2. to investigate into the cost of updation of pension, improvement in family pension and 100% DA neutralization by Actuarial defined in Pension Regulations 1995.
3. Upon investigation report from actuarials, to order to the concerned banks RBI and GOI, to arrive at the decision on the demands of the retirees.
With Respectful &Warm Regards,
Sabyasachi Sanyal
Administrator
ALL INDIA BANK RETIREES ACTION FORUM
110 /1 /A Sarat Ghosh Garden Road
Dhakuria,Kolkata 700031
mob 9831510935
email sabyasachi.sipra @ gmail.com
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[22/12, 7:00 PM] rtyagi975: Good evening friends,
So finally the much awaited 2nd writ has been filed today.
As informed earlier, this writ is regarding the procedure of calculation of Gratuity under Bank Scheme.
As you all know ,after the orders were passed by ALC Silchar and Ranchi followed by DLC Hyderabad , we requested you all to give your opinion on these cases and also suggest whether we should approach the Court in this matter on these lines. On the basis of your suggestions, we decided to take up the matter in the court . A strategy was planned and accordingly , some members were asked to make their claim of Gratuity as per the orders. This process started somewhere in August/September.
After obtaining the replies ( which was negative as expected ) , we made a representation before the Labour Ministry under Article 350 on 18th Sept. enclosing all the representations and the replies so received . Here it is very amusing to note that when we used to discussed this matter with the ALCs in the Ministry regarding the orders of ALC/DLC , the response was very encouraging and they were unequivocally saying that the ALCs or DLCs have done the right interpretation of the Bank Gratuity Scheme . But as soon as we filed our petition under Article 350, the same people who were very forthright in giving their opinion in positive, went silent. Now they started giving us some reason or the other for not giving their reply. But we kept on reminding them over phone that we await your reply. But when we noticed from their this attitude that they have decided not to reply, we mailed a reminder in November for our records.
After waiting for more than 90 days, we asked our Lawyer to prepare the draft stating the whole sequence of events so that we may file the writ .
We received the first draft a day before yesterday. After going through it, we returned the draft suggesting some alterations and additions.
The lawyer, after incorporating the suggested points again sent us the draft today morning at around 4.00 AM.
After giving the final reading, we approved it returned the same at 7.00 AM today itself.
The last couple of days have been very hectic for both Kalia ji and me. We both were making corrections and after sharing with each other, were sending our suggestions on email. Every time, after giving our point of view, we used to discussed all this with the Lawyer over phone to get his point of view as well so that everything we add or omit or alter should make sense.
All the other formalities were already completed . So finally the writ has been filed in Delhi High Court under Diary no.586668/2018.
We thank you all for your patience and co- operation .
This writ will come up for hearing in January 2019 since today was the last working day of the year.
Regards,
Rajinder Kumar
Now if the members suggest we will proceed for the updation matter.
[22/12, 7:00 PM] rtyagi975: From Kaliji nd Rajinder Kumar desk.
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