ByS.C. Maheshwari

Secretary General Bharat Pensioners SamajE-mail: bharatpensioner@gmail.com

Web Sites: www.bharatpensioner.org

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•Pension is not largesse but a right.•Should be adequate to enable retd.employee to live with standard he wasliving.•There Should be no discrimination on thebasis of date of retirement.•Gap between haves & have lots shouldgo on reducing•Healthcare is a fundamental right of exemployee.

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Full and modified parity will be meaningless unless the actual grades and grade pays implemented to serving employees on revision are taken into consideration. For some categories especially at lower and middle levels, grades higher than those actually recommended by the Commissions were implemented for employees in service. They were not extended for modified and full parity to those who retired prior to revision in the corresponding posts on the pretext that what were implemented were improved grades and grade pays. This resulted in invidious discrimination against and grave injustice to past retirees. The gap in pensions due to this ever widens not only with every subsequent revision but also whenever additional installment of DR and when additional quantum based on advanced age are granted. (contd).

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Parity, full or modified, will be meaningful and confer realbenefit on past retirees only when the actual grades and gradepays implemented for serving employees are taken for thispurpose. This injustice is happening only when a higher gradeor grade pay is given to a certain category after revision. Werespectfully submit that certain sections of past pensioners arenot able to get justice in the matter of full/modified parity dueto the above discriminatory treatment. A Group-B officer, whoretired in III CPC scale had been brought down one scale lowerw.e.f., 1.1.96 and to Rs.4200/- GP w.e.f., 1.1.2006 whereas aIV CPC Group-B officer got Rs.4600/- GP w.e.f., 1.1.2006 anda V CPC Group-B officer got Rs.4800/- GP in revision. Thisinjustice has occurred to many categories of pre-2006 retirees.We appeal to the Commission to do full justice to all pastretirees in the above regard by making suitablerecommendations.

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Pre-2006 pensioners were given 40% fitment benefit

whereas serving employees were given grade pay. This

resulted in grave imbalance between pre and post 2006

pensioners. In order to rectify this, notional fixation has to

be extended w.e.f., 1.1.2006 to pre 2006 pensioners taking

50% of corresponding grade pay into account so that they

will be brought on a common platform with post 2006

pensioners and they will all get equal justice in the next

revision as per VII CPC. We urge the Commission to

recommend same fitment benefit to employees as well as

pensioners to avoid imbalance between past and future

pensioners and also same multiplication factor for revision

to one and all to ensure equal treatment.

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Presently in case of pensioners otherthan PSU absorbees pensioners,recovery of commuted value of pensionlasts 15 yrs, where as in case of PSUabsorbees this recovery continues tillsurvival which is discriminatory. In theircase also full pension should berestored, the day sanctioned amountwith interest is fully recovered.

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Modified FR56(a) requires every one whose date of birth is the first of month to retire from service on the afternoon of last day of preceding month on attaining superannuation age. As a result, those born on Ist of Jan loose pay & pension revision benefits due to pay comm. recommendations and those born on Ist july loose benefit of one increment. They are deprived of equality of status. Hon’ble pay comm. is requested to set right the discrepancy.

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Pending submission of commission’s report & implementation of its

recommendations . As an immediate measure to partially mitigate

sufferings of pensioners, BPS appeal to the Hon’ble comm. to immediately recommend merger of 50% DR with basic pension & an interim relief of

20% of existing pension.

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