Being now with no constraints -self imposed or circumstancial-i am taking the liberty of sharing some of my thoughts for the fortnight old 2019,of course in good humour.
As the schduled SC hearing is only just about a month away suggestions /views etc will have full flow through the blogs particularly from the 'leaders'.Before saying what I want to,let me compliment m/s Sahni,Gangadharan & sury for doing a good service to the pensioners' community
1) I have seen Shri Mahadevan,'s reference to the system of periodical increase in basic pension in vogue for central Govt's pensioners,I had long back (in 2018) sent a personal representation to the chairman seeking extension of the said benefit to me as a super senior pensioner and I know that around the same time another pensioner also ( not Shri HKA !)had sent an appeal directly to the prime minister.NO response yet is no surprise .Anyway it is worth taking a chance for pensioners under 75 + category. I am reminded of a Tamil proverb "throw a stone aiming a mango ,the stone is bound to fall back but mango also might"
2) As for the case in the SC a new bench will be hearing it for the first time and naturally or unnaturally they would need time to catch up with the crux of the dispute. In my view we should leave the case, atleast till the middle of this year, to the court and the counsels . After all as rightly pointed out by my friend shri Somnath Chhabra it is election time now and it would be wise not to work for a 'speedy Disposal'.It is equally important not to create any further hype.
3) Again the cry for forming a 'Gath bandhan' among the petitioning organisations is in the air.Arising out of my experience in dabbling with the issues of pensioners I would say that the widespread complaint of 'lack of unity' is not well founded as the court proceedings always take their own course and further it is fact there is no history of any organisation having worked on cross purposes against any other party during our long and still pending litigation except perhaps at a very early stage. Better we wait on this proposition .
Good bye for the time being and with best wishes to all for all time to come.--
GN Sridharan
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