Subject: Re: Fw: BANK PENSIONER DEMAND FROM NEW INDIAN EXPRESS FW ERI BOI
LETTER FROM DR JITENDRA SINGH MOS FOR PUBLIC GRIEVANCE PENSION etc. of PMO ON UPDATION OF PENSION PLEASE OPEN THE LINK
On 9 November 2015 at 17:24, er iyer <eriyer47@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
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Subject: BANK PENSIONER DEMAND FROM NEW INDIAN EXPRESS FW ERI BOI
Subject: BANK PENSIONER DEMAND FROM NEW INDIAN EXPRESS FW ERI BOI
- K Chandrasekaran at the confederation | A RAJA CHIDAMBARAM
CHENNAI:
It’s been 25 years since the All India Bank Pensioners and Retirees
Confederation has been seeking revised pension. Twenty five years later,
they still continue to ask for it.
“We
have worked in the most inhospitable places, under threat to life. But
post-retirement we bank employees who are victims of broken promises,
blatant violations of service rules and scant disregard for court
verdicts,” said K Chandrasekaran, convener of the confederation while
addressing the press at the Chennai Press Club on Friday.
There
are currently over 3 lakh pensioners and 80,000 family pensioners.
Chandrasekaran adds that though the former employees have many
grievances, their major grouse is Pension. “From the fifth pay
commission central government employees have witnessed several
progressive changes. We are not seeking any of those improvements made
in the pension rules of the central government but are only asking what
was agreed in the Pension Settlement of 1993 or incorporated in Pension
Regulations of 1995 or interpreted in courts of law,” he added.
The
members said that they have put forth their usual demands and nothing
new. Sopme of their demands were pension updation, 100 per cent DA
neutralisation, family pension, pension to those who have completed
service and retired after introduction of pensionable service and
grievances of SBI pensioners.
“Bank
pensioners were getting protection against inflation by payment of
dearness allowance on basic pension. But the protection was not cent per
cent as banks followed a tapering DA formula with differential rates of
neutralisation for different slabs of pension as was being given in
RBI,” said SBC Karunakaran, Vice President of the Confederation.
The
pensioners also said that they will be holding a protest on December
11, in New Delhi to make their plea heard. “We need the revision now,
it’s time to put it seriously to the higher authorities,” he added
Regards,
E.R.Iyer
