The information received by Mr C S
Murty under the RTI Act reveals the following information:
1. Total number of Pensioners/Family Pensioners who have been paid 40% Interim
Relief: 15286
2. Total amount of 40% IR paid : Rs
27,23,17,955
3. Average IR paid per pensioner= Rs
17815
It will be worthwhile to compare the
number of pensioners who have received the 40% IR with the total number of pre-August 1997 retirees as at 1/8/2003.
The following table gives the statistics of pre-August 1997 retirees as at
1/8/2003 and 20/2/2009 as per the information obtained under RTI Act:
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1/8/2003 as per the illustrative chart sent by CO Personnel Dept to the MoF
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20/2/2009(as
per the letter written by ED(Per) on 20/8/2009 to Under Secretary,MoF GOI
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Exits
presumably by death after 1/8/2003
upto 20/2/2009
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Retired
from 1/1/1986 to 31/7/1992
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7945
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5390
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2555
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Retired
from 1/8/1992 upto 31/7/1997
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13817
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11108
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2709
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Total
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21762
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16498
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5264
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This
indicates that out of 21762
as many as 5264 constituting
24.2% have expired resulting in addition of as many family
pensioners less a small number where
spouses might have predeceased the retirees.
The number 15286 may include this number plus the family pensioners of those retirees who had expired
after1/1/1986 but before the notification of the LIC Pension Rules. So there is
a gap of 6476 pensioners, presumably family
pensioners who have been left out of payment of IR.
As per the information received from Jaipur Divisional Office, about
payment of IR ,out of 138 pensioners to
whom IR was paid, as many as 28 constituting 20.9% have received single digit amounts towards IR.These pensioners must be
presumably family pensioners. Besides
the above there are also family pensioners who have received IR due to the
regular pensioners from 1/8/1997 upto the date of their death thereafter and
who might have received the single digit family pension IR. 59 out of 138
pensioners who received IR are family pensioners constituting 42.75% for Jaipur
Divisional office.
The corresponding percentage for Chandigarh Divisional office as per the data obtained by Mr C S Murty, is
46.15% out of a total of 260 pensioners who received IR.In case of this
Division 21.9% of the pensioners(presumably all family pensioners) received
single digit amount towards IR.
Out of the 15286 pensioners to whom payment was made, if we apply the percentage of 40% as the percentage of family pensioners,
we can assume that about 9000 regular pensioners must have received the interim
relief as per LIC’s faulty calculation. Out of the remaining 6286( mostly family pensioners)
about 3000 must have received single
digit amounts and the remaining more
than 3200 family pensioners must
have also received the IR due to the deceased retirees from 1/8/1997 upto the date of their
death in addition to the single digit family pension IR.
The average IR per pensioner works out to Rs 17815 for the Corporation as a
whole, while it is Rs 26403 for Jaipur Divisional Office pensioners and Rs
20459 for Chandigarh Divisional Office pensioners.
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The safe conclusion from the above data( although inadequate)
will be that LIC has not complied with the SC Order dated 31/3/2016 in respect of at least 30%
of eligible pensioners and that
among those who were paid interim relief, family pensioners constituting about 40% would have received single digit amounts
towards family pension IR and list.
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The other conclusion that
can be drawn is that the non-application of para 3A of Appendix IV is
responsible for short payment of interim relief amounts received by regular pensioners and family pensioners,
resulting in a huge deficit ranging from 70% to 90% in case of regular pensioners and almost 99.9% in case of family pensioners.
Now let us wait to see what LIC has
to state in its affidavit to be
submitted to the Delhi High Court.
Greetings.
C H Mahadevan
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