After preparing the Pension Anomaly Chart as at 28/2/2025 close on the heels of an increase of 66 DR slabs from 1/2/2025 for retirees and family pensioners , I wanted to make an analysis of pension disparity suffered by one sample cadre of Executive Director which happens to be the highest in the LIC hierarchy below the top management. I have summarised data in the attached Table.
To summarise there are 181 retiree positions in the junior cadres of later retirees including EDs where retirees draw more gross pension than earlier period ED retirees . If we take actual numbers in such superseder positions it may run in several thousands considering that presently more than 4000 employees are retiring every year.
Adding insult to injury ,family pensioners in 72 positions of deceased retiree cadres,are drawing more than Executive Directors of various retirement periods.Of course we have all sympathies for family pensioners who have unfortunately lost their breadwinner- life partners who are justified in receiving a decent quantum of family pension.(Of course, due to non-upgradation of pension even among the family pensioners discrimination persists among different generations). Having said that , it is highly anomalous that an Executive Director retired at any time should get less pension than a family pension drawn by the family pensioner of a deceased Stenographer.
What I have analysed is for only one cadre.When a comprehensive analysis is made for all cadres , the magnitude of this pension disparity will be frighteningly evident.
All this proves that non-upgradation of pension is like cancer.It started in a small way in the year 2000 when wage revision w e f 1/8/1997 was notified throwing up the DR anomaly on account of lack of 100% DR neutralisation for pre-August 1997 retirees. This cancer has spread and grown bigger with every wage revision over the last 25 years.The fatal effect of this cancer has taken a toll of more than 20000 pensioners who have departed from this world without getting justice.
We need to effectively convince the Supreme Court with the available data to drive home the need for speedy justice in our case.Let us hope that when the new Bench is constituted by the Supreme Court , we are able to speed up the hearing so that the chronic suffering of waiting pensioners is put to an end.
C H Mahadevan
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