REVISED MEMORANDUM  TO BE SUBMITTED TO CHAIRMAN LICI THROUGH SDMS ON 5TH DECEMBER,2014
          BY RESPECTIVE DIVISION SECRATARY
ALL INDIA RETIRED INSURANCE EMPLOYEES’ FEDERATION

                                                    (Registration No.500)

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 PRESIDENT:      GENERALSECRETARY: ORGANISINGSECRETARY ORGANISINGSECRETARY   TREASURER

S.S.SAXENA         N.NARAYANA                 B.ANGURAJAN                    ARUN SHUKLA                    G.KRISHNASWAMY

098260 59506    098800 92797               094433 81571                   094252 08198                     098867 97756

                                                                      MEMORANDUM

          TO THE CHAIRMAN LIC OF INDIA, THROUGH  ZONAL MANAGER, LIC, SOUTHERN ZONE,CHENNAI

          It is matter of great pain and distress that LIC management is not honouring the Hon’ble Supreme Court, Hon’ble High Courts of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Punjab & Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi Judgements to implement Rajasthan High Court orders passed by the learned Single Judge vide order dated 12.01.2010,  in S.B.CWP No.6676 of 1998 and S.B.CWP No. 654 of 2007, vide which the Hon’ble Judge allowed both the Writs and LIC has been directed to implement LIC’s own Board Resolution No. 492 passed on 24.11.2001, which provide relief to all the retired employees of  LIC  on two long pending demands viz:

       (1)    Updation of pension consequent upon revision of pay scales of in-service employees from time to time ie. 1997,2002, 2007  and subsequent revisions as and when take place.

(2)    To remove glaring anomaly as also discrimination  with regard to payment of DR to pensioners who retired on or before 1.8.1997 as they are getting 50% neutralization whereas who retired after this date get 100%

 It is unfortunate that instead of implementing its own Board Resolution & Hon SJ,Jaipur Order, LIC is inordinately  delaying the matter.  As you are aware, after exhausting all our channels for implementation of Board Resolution,  Writs were filed in Jaipur High Court and the learned Judge upheld the same vide historic Judgment dated 12.1.2010. LIC’s Appeal in Division Bench and subsequent  Review Petition were dismissed. Hon’ble High Courts of Punjab & Haryana, Chandigarh and HC of Delhi have also allowed similar writs on the lines of Jaipur Judgment, with further orders by Punjab & Haryana allowing 12% interest for late payment, and Delhi HC allowing implementation ‘in rem’.   LIC filed  SLPs in the Supreme Court which too were dismissed. Though the revised SLPs filed by LIC were converted into Civil Appeals,  the Hon’ble Supreme Court passed the following orders on  19.8.13, 30.9.13 & 8.10.2013 while disposing off SLPs filed by LIC against the orders of three High Courts:

“There shall be no stay of the directions given by the learned single Judge vide order dated 12.01.2010 passed in S.B.CWP No.6676 of 1998 and connected matter.”, connected matter meaning CWP No.654 of 2007 regarding upgradation of pension).

It would be pertinent to mention that Central and State Govts revise the  pension as and when pay scales of their employees is revised on the recommendations of successive Pay Commission Reports. LIC Board passed a Resolution in 2001 and we expect the present Management respect  its own Board Resolution and above all  honour the Supreme Court / High Courts clear cut orders, and desist from dragging the super seniors in unnecessary further litigation, which will be against the Central Govt’s own National Litigation Policy,which the present Govt wants to implement in letter & spirit .

Out of about 47,000 pensioners more than 13,000 are Family pensioners indicating such large number of deaths have taken & are taking place.Who will wipe the tears of the widow ? Family Pensioners ratio to Regular pensioners have jumped from 17% to 36%.This is a sad commentary on present state of affairs.Majority of those who are surviving are in the age group of 70-80 and above. With high cost of living, persistent inflation and ever increasing medical bills, they are being deprived of equity &  justice for the last over 15 years. All are proud of our contribution of laying very sound foundation of the mighty Institution, but we are dismayed by the indifferent  and unhelpful attitude of the management& UOI in paying the overdue retiral  benefits of updation of pension & removal of DA anomaly to the retired employees.

Through this Memorandum,on AIRIEF FOUNDERS DAY,18 year young, we earnestly appeal to you to honour so many successive Court orders from eminent Hon Judges and uphold the sanctity of its own Board’s Resolution , accept & immediately implement Hon SJ Bhandari’s Jaipur HC umbrella judgement with twin benefits of successive pension upgradation & Full DR to pre-8/1997 pensioners,which the Hon SC Bench in its clarificatory Order dt 17 October, 2012 laid down  “pay retiral benefits from the date of eligibility”,meaning date of retirement.

5^th,December2014 R.B.KISHORE VICE-PRESIDENT,AIRIEF 044-28155810/09840340591