The sixth Annual General Body Meeting of the Retired LIC Class I
Officers' Association,Hyderabad was held today the 20th December 2015 at
LIC ZO canteen hall.
The
meeting was attended by about 40 members including seven new members who
joined the Association at the start of the meeting.
Mr
M Sreenivasa Murty who presided gave a detailed account of the
developments that have been taking place on the legal front and the initiatives that he has been taking culminating in the latest direction
issued by the Supreme Court that the Chandigarh petitioners shall be
permitted to withdraw the amount deposited in the High Court registry.
Mr
Sreenivasa Murty also elaborated on the initiative taken on behalf of
our Association and emphasized the need to engage competent senior
counsel for drawing the attention of the Supreme Court Bench to the acts
of LIC not complying with the court orders in letter and spirit.He
cited the instance of LIC not really implementing the SC Order of 7th
May 2015 but paying an inadequate amount of interim relief to only a
limited number of eligible pensioners with no relief for family
pensioners.
Mr C H
Mahadevan also stressed the need for strengthening the finances of the
Association to provide support the painstaking efforts of Mr Sreenivasa
Murty.Mr Mahadevan also proposed that the Association consider playing
an enlarged role as an All India Association enrolling members outside
our present jurisdiction for which due to paucity of time no decision
would be possible in the meeting but detailed discussions may have to be
held on the modalities in an Extraordinary General Body Meeting called
for the purpose.
A number
of members spoke expressing their views on some issues ,one member
expressing the grievance of denial of interim relief to our Association
members ignoring the in rem benefit ordered by the High Court.
The
enthusiasm and positive response to the call of the President was
reflected in a number of members, to begin with,contributing a total
amount of Rs 57000 in the meeting towards the Legal Fund of the
Association with a number of other members making an oral commitment of
their contributions to be made shortly.Earlier a few days ago an amount
of Rs 8000 was contributed by Visakhapatnam members towards the Fund.
A
new set of Office Bearers were elected with Mr M Sreenivasa Murty as
President and Mr Y V Subba Rao as Secretary besides others and six
remaining members of the Executive Committee.
The meeting was followed by lunch.
Greetings.
C H Mahadevan
