Unheard for 35 Years,
but now no more....
"Confidence is the most powerful
weapon you can possess..."
Forgetting the agony of how much you have lost, who did it or didn't do it to you, your focus should be on what you have to do.
The tree is never distressed that how many flowers, leaves, fruits it has lost. He is always hopeful about new flowers, leaves, fruits. The rivers do not mourn for how much water is flowing every moment. They keep flowing. They also know that if the water has been flowing out, then the fresh water is coming in too.
Brother Pensioners, keep your confidence, because it's most powerful weapon in you.
One aspect of the pension demand was that it would maintain lifelong relationship of Bank Employees with their Unions. Unions while in service and Unions after service! We can cite live example. You can see it in the Reserve Bank. There the retirees are associated with their working Unions, which fight for pensioners' right with same zeal and enthusiasm as they do for the working employees/officers.
Other Banks Pensioners have never distanced from their parent Unions, associated with it at all level, but the Unions on all occasions have hurt pensioners interests, never made an iota of efforts in any matter. Leave pension revision, it was big issue. Look to various modus-operandies, manipulations and maneuvers these Union's did in sterilizing Pension Scheme.
Smallest issue of handful "resignees", who for their indispensable difficulties resigned from service, haven't been extended Pension option, while all tainted dismissed, terminated, discharged, CRS people got it. Innocent resignees are continuing in peril.
Unions have sterlized Pension Scheme be it 1616/1684 or now Special Allowance. Injustice done to pensioners of April,1998 to April, 2005 was fought by individuals upto Supreme Court. 100% DA case of pre-2002 was fought by individuals won in High Court, but lost in SC because AIBRF deserted Court room on hearing day.
Exceeding all limits of sanity, today, Unions are sterilizing pension-optees in job. Despite such nefarious treatment to them, they give subscriptions, levies etc to the Unions. This way, Unions are extorting money from bank employees for making them impotent.
Have faith, instead of today, tomorrow will come with some new possibilities. Life is never zero, but zero is the beginning move from zero to the peak.
RUN AWAY IS NO OPTION,
WILL PROVE FATAL, HENCE
CONTEST WITH CONVICTION!
SINGLA'S SLP WILL BE
G A M E C H A N G E R !!
A senior Pensioner in the Singla case said, "I personally believe that there is no valid ground to fight in court", adding, "Fighting without solid ground does not help us." We felt as if he was in a half-sleep or a great jurist. This case is not at the exchange of views level whether to file or not to file. Rather, it is at the stage of hearing in the Supreme Court.
The proceedings have also started. The hearing has already taken place twice. Some orders have also been passed. Now there are two options: fight or give up and run away.
If you run, the Supreme Court will seal the decision of the Chandigarh High Court. If you run away, fate will be of 100% DA case. If you run away, the Supreme Court will seal that there is no provision for pension revision in the Pension Regulations. If you run away, IBA's false affidavit filed in the Supreme Court will get a clean chit. If you run away, the demand for pension revision will be buried forever.
Anyway, all the officer/employee unions are supporting IBA by keeping distance from this case. Pensioners Unions are also doing Illu-Illu in support of IBA. Singla ji has passed away. PNB Retirees are pleading the case. The result of this case is related to the life of every pensioner, but their representative organizations are not persuing this case. Unions who are party to the Pension Agreement are not coming to counter IBA, which is challenging the Agreement/Regulations in the Supreme Court. Overall the situation is clear. There is no way to run away from this case, but the irony is that everyone is running away.
However, we wish to make it clear that court cases are not fought on personal belief. The cases are fought on merits with the opinion of legal professionals. Our friend cited the loss of 100% DA case in the Supreme Court to substantiate his views. As we know, the case of 100% DA for pre-2002 Pensioners was lost in the Supreme Court because the advocate & SC Jain of AIBRF, fled the court on the day of hearing.
This is the same Supreme Court that has given several rulings that the same institution cannot have discriminatory compensation rules. D.A. is inflation compensation, so it should be the same for both working and retired. How shameful it is that unions have allowed this discriminatory DA to be applied to pre-2002 retired pensioners, ignoring this basic principle.
There is a need for a thorough discussion, analysis & understanding of the case. Litigation of the case is a compulsion and thrust upon Pensioners. If it is not attended, then the Pensioners will have to be ready to bear the consequences.
If not the court then what is the alternative. It has been 37 years since the pension was implemented. Pension revision would happen with every pay revision, this was the basic spirit of the pension scheme. It's undeniable!
At the time of implementation, the Pension of the Pensioners of 1.1.1986 to 31.10.1987 was revised due to the 5th Wage Settlement which came into effect from 1.11.1987. Didn't it happen? If, there was no provision for pension revision, so how did it happen?
Landmark question is: why Pension Revision was not done in the light of 6th to 11th Wage Settlement between 1992 to 2017? When the foundation of our Pension is the Pension of Reserve Bank, why didn't all that happen here, which happened in Reserve Bank?
Today there is no discussion of the Reserve Bank line. Why is there talk of loop-line? How is pre-1986 linked to pension?
Pensioners trusted the Working Unions, supported them, but what did the Working Unions give in return? They gave 1616/1684, then left the wound of 4/1998-4/2005 as they were and run away. For justice, such people had to fight till the Supreme Court. Then from 11/2012, the series of special allowances started for sterilization of Pension. More veins were cut from 11/2017 onwards. Will be cut further from 11/2022.
Can someone tell us what is the alternative? Bilateral is right, if not the court, but when? Lakhs of pensioners have died waiting in last 35 years.
Wage parity to Gramin Bank employees from Supreme Court, Pension Revision from Court in Reserve Bank, Tainted people got pension from Court, Rights of people from 4/1998 to 4/2005 was restored by Supreme Court, Sastri Award, Desai Award, BB Singh Award etc are few courts and tribunals, which rendered justice to bankmen. The Singla case is not an isolated court case. It is neither the first nor the last. Hence, fight it whole heartedly and with conviction, instead turning back like cowards.
J. N. Shukla
7.1.2023
9559748834
35 वर्षों तक अनसुना,
लेकिन अब और नहीं....
आत्मविश्वास सबसे शक्तिशाली हथियार है जो आप रखें...
आपने क्या कुछ खोया है, किसने आपके लिए क्या किया या नहीं किया, इस पीड़ा को भूलकर आपका ध्यान इस बात पर केन्द्रित होना चाहिए कि आपको क्या करना है।
वृक्ष कभी व्यथित नहीं होता कि उसने कितने फूल, पत्ते, फल खो दिए। वह हमेशा नए फूलों, पत्तियों, फलों के प्रति आशान्वित रहता है। नदियाँ इस बात का शोक नहीं करतीं कि प्रतिपल कितना जल बह रहा है। वे बहती रहतीं हैं। वे यह भी जानती हैं कि अगर पानी बह रहा है तो पानी आ भी रहा है।
पेंशनर भाइयों, अपना आत्मविश्वास बनाए रखें, क्योंकि यह सबसे शक्तिशाली हथियार है।
पेंशन की मांग का एक पहलू यह भी था कि इससे बैंक कर्मचारियों का उनकी यूनियनों के साथ आजीवन संबंध बना रहेगा। सेवा में भी और सेवा के बाद भी यूनियन के साथ! यूनियनों ने खुद इसको तिलांजलि दे दी।
हम इसका जीवंत उदाहरण दे सकते हैं। आप इसे रिजर्व बैंक में देख सकते हैं। वहां सेवानिवृत्त लोग अपनी कामकाजी यूनियनों से जुड़े हुए हैं, जो पेंशनरों के अधिकार के लिए उसी जोश और उत्साह से लड़तीं हैं, जैसे कार्यरत कर्मचारियों/अधिकारियों के लिए लड़तीं हैं।
अन्य बैंक पेंशनरों ने अपने मूल यूनियनों से हर स्तर पर जुड़ाव जारी रखा, लेकिन यूनियनों ने सभी अवसरों पर पेंशनरों की अनदेखी की, उनके हितों को ठेस पहुंचाई है। किसी भी मामले में कभी प्रयास नहीं किया। पेंशन रिवीजन तो छोड़िए, बड़ा मुद्दा था, पेंशन योजना को नपुंसक करने के लिए इन संघों नें विभिन्न तौर-तरीके, जोड़तोड़ और पैंतरेबाज़ी की।
मुट्ठी भर "इस्तीफा" देने वालों का सबसे छोटा मुद्दा, जिन्होंने अपनी अपरिहार्य कठिनाइयों के लिए बैंक सेवा से इस्तीफा दे दिया, उन्हें दूसरा पेंशन विकल्प नहीं दिया गया, जबकि सभी डिसमिस्ड, टर्मिनेटेड, डिस्चार्ज्ड, सीआरएस जैसे दागी लोगों की पेंशन बहाल की गई। इस्तीफा देने वाले साफ-सुथरे रिजाइनीज को पेंशन का विकल्प नहीं, कैसा अन्याय।
यह घोर कलयुग है। हंस चुगेगा दाना दुनका ओर कौआ मोती खाएगा!
यूनियनों ने पेंशन स्कीम की 1616/1684 या अब विशेष भत्ता के जरिए नसबंदी किया है। अप्रैल, 1998 से अप्रैल, 2005 तक पेंशनरों के साथ हुई नसबंदी के खिलाफ लोगों ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक लड़ाई लड़ी और जीती। 2002 के पूर्व का 100% डीए का मामला कुछ व्यक्तियों ने उच्च न्यायालय में जीता, लेकिन सर्वोच्च न्यायालय में हार गए, क्योंकि AIBRF, जिसने पैरवी का दायित्व लिया था, सुनवाई के दिन कोर्ट रूम छोड़ कर भाग गया।
आज यूनियनें विवेक की सारी हदें पार कर, ऐसे पेंशन विकल्पियों की नसबंदी कर रहीं हैं, जो अभी नौकरी में हैं। उनके साथ इस तरह के घिनौने व्यवहार के बावजूद, ऐसे नसबंदी वाले बैंककर्मीं यूनियनों को चंदा, लेवी आदि दे रहें हैं। इस तरह बैंककर्मियों को नपुंसक करने पर लोग यूनियनों को रंगदारी दे रहे है।
विश्वास रखें, आज के बजाय आने वाला कल कुछ नई संभावनाओं के साथ आएगा। जीवन कभी भी शून्य नहीं होता, लेकिन शून्य ही शिखर की ओर जाने की शुरुआत है।
सादर,
जे एन शुक्ला
6.1.2023
9559748834
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