Our Saga of struggle after March 2019 revision till today-by RBI Pensioners Association
I agree.The RBI pattern of upgradation is constitutionally flawed as it leaves out deceased pensioners and denies arrears. Nothing short of retrospective upgradation will be legally and constitutionally right.
C H Mahadevan
C H Mahadevan
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It is a myth to say veteran TU leaders of PSUs fought for pensions from 1947 to 1991.Only a very good PVN RAO introduced pensions to all formal employees but abused for his good deeds and economic reforms to sustain it. These so called veteran TU leaders of both public and private sectors had to fight valiantly from 1947 to 1989 just to stabilise the starvation wages as wage increase was less than the increase in cost of living. Since the Rao regime, workers of both sectors and all informal workers had real wage increase of 3% per year now culminating double the real wages prevailing from 1947/1989 ie., the regimes of 3 members of the dynasty. It is not enough now and we have to go a long way. PVN Rao started mid-day meals scheme for children on all India level against hunger which could not be eradicated from since agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago to till now. Still leaders of AIBEA and AIIEA supported two corrupt UPA regimes for a decade without pension upgradation not accepting that pension is undisbursed low ages during the service, In-service employees from 1.8.'97 are paid 100% DA neutralisation unlike from1.9.'56 to 31.7.97.Only Oriental life and Imperial Bank now SBI along with Govt employees had pensions before 1.11.93.Some MNCs also might have paid pensions. LIC pensioners will have to face 3 member bench as happened to TN temp. employees to loose an enormous victory at famous Gopala gowda bench. Gowda is a reincarnation of VR krishnaiyer who mandated INDIRA GANDHI can continue as PM for six months, but with no voting rights at LOKSABHA which led to infamous EMERGENCY. Most LIC pensioners are not interested in the past history, as they are well off, being a member of top 20% of population. Only 500 persons visit this blog daily and another 1000 visit the unofficial blog of AIIEA/AIIPA.
(CONTD) Sharma, Ram Karan (2025-12-18) Humanity Before Gods: From Our Origins to Our Future in the Universe: Life on early Earth began with a single cell—simple, tiny, fragile. For almost a billion years, the oceans were filled only with these microscopic beings. Nothing had a body. Nothing had organs. Nothing had a brain. Life was present, but it was unimaginably simple. Then, a quiet revolution began. Around 2.5 billion years ago, something changed in the oceans—something so subtle, yet so powerful, that it transformed the entire future of Earth. Some cells learned how to use sunlight as energy. These new cells released a gas that had never existed on Earth before: oxygen. At first, oxygen was a deadly poison. It destroyed many of the early simple organisms. But over time, some cells began to adapt. They learned how to use oxygen to create more energy. This gave them a powerful advantage. More energy meant more activity. More activity meant more possibilities. And more possibilities meant evolution. Oxygen became the fuel of complexity. Slowly, very slowly, some single cells began to join together—not as random gatherings, but as organized teams. Each cell took a different role. One cell might help with movement, another with food processing, another with protection. For the first time in Earth’s history, life was no longer alone. It had become a community. This was the birth of multicellular life. Imagine taking a group of simple workers and assigning each a specialized task. Suddenly, the group can do things no single worker could ever do alone. That’s exactly what life did. Cells began to form: thin sheets small tubes tiny floating bodies first tissues early organs Nothing had a face yet. Nothing had bones or muscles. But for the first time, life had shape. This new complexity changed everything. By 600 million years ago, Earth’s oceans became home to strange, soft-bodied creatures. These were the Ediacaran organisms—some shaped like leaves, some like disks, some like simple ribbons drifting along the ocean floor. They had no eyes, no mouths, no legs. But they had something more important—structure. It was as if evolution was practicing, preparing for something big. And then, around 541 million years ago, the universe flipped a switch. Life exploded. Not in a violent way, but in a creative one. This event is known as the Cambrian Explosion— a period when life diversified at a speed never seen before or after. In just a few million years (which is fast in evolutionary time), the oceans filled with astonishing new creatures: Animals with eyes appeared. Animals with legs appeared. Animals with mouths and teeth appeared. Animals with shells, spines, and armour appeared. Animals that could swim, crawl, dig, hunt, escape appeared. Life had gone from quiet simplicity to explosive complexity. For the first time: predators existed prey existed movement became important survival became a contest instincts began to form The ocean turned into a living, moving world full of shapes and behaviors that no cell could ever have imagined. This period shaped the direction of evolution forever. Every major body plan—eyes, limbs, nerves, muscles—was introduced here. Even humans, billions of years later, inherited these designs. If the first single-celled life was the “childhood” of biology, the Cambrian Explosion was its “teenage years”— full of energy, experimentation, mistakes, and breakthroughs. Suddenly, life had possibilities. And the planet had characters—creatures with presence, strength, and movement.
Earth was no longer a silent world. It was a stage filled with drama, motion, and competition. The rise of complex life was not just a biological event. It was the moment when Earth began to feel alive in every sense. The next chapters will follow this story forward— to fish that conquered the seas, animals that crawled onto land, giants that ruled the forests, and finally… the strange, unlikely mammal that would one day look back at the stars and ask: “Where did we come from?” But before we reach humans, we still have a long and beautiful journey through Earth’s ancient history. And the next chapter begins with one of the most dramatic eras ever known… Long before humans appeared, long before the first mammals even learned to walk on the forest floor, Earth belonged to a different kind of ruler—creatures so enormous, so powerful, and so extraordinary that even today, millions of years after their extinction, their presence still shapes our imagination. This was the age of dinosaurs, a chapter in Earth’s story that lasted for an almost unimaginable span of time. The age began around 252 million years ago, right after the greatest extinction event in Earth’s history. Almost ninety percent of all life had vanished, leaving behind a silent and empty world. From this emptiness, nature started again. It rebuilt life from the ground up, and among the earliest survivors were small, agile reptiles. These creatures were the first hints of what dinosaurs would eventually become. The early dinosaurs were not the giants we imagine today. Some were no bigger than dogs, quick on their feet, alert, and adaptable. The world they lived in was harsh—hot temperatures, dry landscapes, and a single, massive continent called Pangaea. Yet these creatures slowly spread across this great supercontinent, finding opportunities in environments where other animals struggled. Evolution was warming up, quietly preparing for something far greater. As millions of years passed, the Earth changed. The land began to break apart. The climate softened. Forests began to grow. And with these changes came the next great era—the Jurassic period. This was the moment when dinosaurs truly became the dominant life on Earth. Towering trees formed vast green landscapes, and in these forests, giants roamed. Long-necked creatures like Brachiosaurus stretched toward the treetops, while powerful hunters like Allosaurus stalked the plains. The skies were alive with flying reptiles, and the oceans had their own massive predators. Earth had become a vibrant, living planet filled with movement, sound, and life of every shape and size. By the time the Cretaceous period arrived, dinosaurs had reached the height of their diversity. New species evolved in every corner of the world. Some dinosaurs wore thick armor plates, others carried horns, and some moved with the speed and intelligence of modern predators. This was the era of Triceratops, Velociraptors, Ankylosaurs, and the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex. Forests grew richer, flowering plants appeared for the first time, and ecosystems became more complex than ever before. Every day in this world was a delicate balance between survival and extinction.
Perhaps the most astonishing fact about dinosaurs is not their size, but the length of their rule. Dinosaurs dominated Earth for over 186 million years. Humans, by comparison, have existed for only around three hundred thousand years. If Earth’s history were compressed into a single day, dinosaurs would rule for nearly five hours. Humans would appear only in the final second before midnight. Dinosaurs were not an accident; they were one of nature’s greatest successes. But even the greatest reigns come to an end. About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid approached Earth—so large and so powerful that its impact would change the planet forever. It struck near the region we now call Mexico with the force of billions of atomic bombs. In moments, forests burned, oceans rose in enormous waves, and the sky filled with dust that blocked sunlight across the globe. Plants died. Animals starved. The carefully balanced ecosystems collapsed. Within a geological instant, the dinosaurs vanished. Yet their fall was not the end of life—it was the turning of a page. Their disappearance opened the door for small mammals, creatures that had quietly survived in the shadows for millions of years. With the giants gone, these tiny survivors began their slow journey toward becoming something entirely new. Without the extinction of dinosaurs, humans would never have existed. The age of dinosaurs ended in destruction, but from that destruction came possibility. Nature was preparing the stage for a new kind of life, one that would eventually learn to think, to wonder, and to tell the story of the world.When the last roar of the dinosaurs faded from the Earth, the planet fell into a long silence. Forests were burned, skies were dark, and oceans were restless. It was a world that had just survived its greatest catastrophe—a world waiting for someone new to take its first steps onto the empty stage. In that silence, something small stirred. A creature no bigger than a rat, fragile and soft, crawled out from the shadows. It was not powerful. It had no claws like a raptor, no teeth like a tyrannosaur, no armor like a triceratops. But it had something else— the ability to survive quietly. This small creature was a mammal. It had survived where the giants had failed. Not because it was strong, but because it was adaptable. In a world rebuilt from ashes, this adaptability was everything. The fall of the dinosaurs was not just an ending. It was an opening—a door through which mammals stepped with silent determination. With the giant reptiles gone, forests grew again, fruits ripened in the warm sunlight, insects multiplied, and rivers filled with new life. The planet became soft, green, and welcoming. And in this gentler world, the mammals began their slow rise. At first, they were tiny—shy creatures that lived in trees, hunted at night, and hid during the day.
But they were warm-blooded, quick, alert, and endlessly curious. Their bodies may have been small, but their potential was enormous. Over millions of years, these early mammals spread across the world. They learned to climb, dig, swim, glide, jump, and explore. Some grew larger. Some stayed small. Some returned to the oceans and became whales. Others dove underground and became moles. Evolution was experimenting, testing, trying new forms—looking for the perfect combination of strength, intelligence, and adaptability. Among these experiments, a very special group emerged: the primates. They were different from all other animals. Their hands were flexible, their fingers could grasp branches, and their eyes faced forward, giving them depth and precision. They learned to move gracefully through trees using balance and coordination. Life in the forest demanded awareness, quick thinking, and constant learning. And slowly, their brains began to grow. These early primates were not powerful hunters. They were not the fastest or the strongest. But they could notice patterns. They could find solutions. They could learn from mistakes. They were building something quietly—something that would one day change the entire destiny of life on Earth. The forests of ancient Earth were filled with their movements: small groups travelling together, mothers carrying children, young ones playing, elders watching from the branches. While other animals lived moment by moment, primates remembered. They planned. They cared for one another. Social bonds became their greatest strength. Time moved forward. Millions of years passed. Continents shifted. Climates changed. Forests rose and fell. Yet primates adapted through every challenge. About 25 million years ago, a new branch of primates appeared—the apes. Stronger. Smarter. More social. More curious. Apes learned to swing through trees with powerful arms. They ate fruits, seeds, leaves, and sometimes small animals. Their groups became more complex. Their social lives more emotional. Their intelligence deeper. From these ancient apes came a smaller, more vulnerable, but extraordinary lineage— one that would one day walk on two legs, learn to shape tools, control fire, speak languages, build cities, create religions, and imagine the universe itself. This lineage was our own. But before that moment arrived, Earth needed time. Millions more years of quiet growth and slow change. The rise of mammals and primates was not fast. It was patient, gentle, steady. It was evolution writing the early chapters of a story that would one day belong to us. Nature had lost its giants, but in their place, it had found something far more powerful— not in muscle, not in size, but in mind. And slowly, hidden in forests and scattered across continents, the first sparks of human possibility began to glow. If the dinosaurs ruled Earth with strength, the mammals and primates would one day rule it with thought. The journey toward humanity had begun. The world that the early primates inherited was changing again. Not softly, not slowly, but with a force that reshaped continents, oceans, forests, and even the destiny of life itself. As the climate cooled, a new chapter began—one of ice, wind, and relentless survival. This was the age of the great ice sheets. Around 2.6 million years ago, the temperature of Earth began to drop. Snow fell in the northern regions and did not melt. Layer upon layer, year after year, it pressed itself into massive blocks of ice. These glaciers grew until they covered entire continents— thick, white, silent, and endless. They moved slowly, like frozen mountains creeping across the land, scraping valleys into the earth and pushing forests aside. The world’s water was trapped in ice, and sea levels fell, connecting continents with land bridges and opening new paths across the planet.
5 comments:
It is a myth to say veteran TU leaders of PSUs fought for pensions from 1947 to 1991.Only a very good PVN RAO introduced pensions to all formal employees but abused for his good deeds and economic reforms to sustain it. These so called veteran TU leaders of both public and private sectors had to fight valiantly from 1947 to 1989 just to stabilise the starvation wages as wage increase was less than the increase in cost of living. Since the Rao regime, workers of both sectors and all informal workers had real wage increase of 3% per year now culminating double the real wages prevailing from 1947/1989 ie., the regimes of 3 members of the dynasty. It is not enough now and we have to go a long way. PVN Rao started mid-day meals scheme for children on all India level against hunger which could not be eradicated from since agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago to till now. Still leaders of AIBEA and AIIEA supported two corrupt UPA regimes for a decade without pension upgradation not accepting that pension is undisbursed low ages during the service, In-service employees from 1.8.'97 are paid 100% DA neutralisation unlike from1.9.'56 to 31.7.97.Only Oriental life and Imperial Bank now SBI along with Govt employees had pensions before 1.11.93.Some MNCs also might have paid pensions. LIC pensioners will have to face 3 member bench as happened to TN temp. employees to loose an enormous victory at famous Gopala gowda bench. Gowda is a reincarnation of VR krishnaiyer who mandated INDIRA GANDHI can continue as PM for six months, but with no voting rights at LOKSABHA which led to infamous EMERGENCY. Most LIC pensioners are not interested in the past history, as they are well off, being a member of top 20% of population. Only 500 persons visit this blog daily and another 1000 visit the unofficial blog of AIIEA/AIIPA.
(CONTD)
Sharma, Ram Karan (2025-12-18) Humanity Before Gods: From Our Origins to Our Future in the Universe: Life on early Earth began with a single cell—simple, tiny, fragile.
For almost a billion years, the oceans were filled only with these microscopic beings.
Nothing had a body.
Nothing had organs.
Nothing had a brain.
Life was present, but it was unimaginably simple. Then, a quiet revolution began. Around 2.5 billion years ago, something changed in the oceans—something so subtle, yet so powerful, that it transformed the entire future of Earth. Some cells learned how to use sunlight as energy.
These new cells released a gas that had never existed on Earth before: oxygen. At first, oxygen was a deadly poison.
It destroyed many of the early simple organisms.
But over time, some cells began to adapt.
They learned how to use oxygen to create more energy.
This gave them a powerful advantage. More energy meant more activity.
More activity meant more possibilities.
And more possibilities meant evolution.
Oxygen became the fuel of complexity. Slowly, very slowly, some single cells began to join together—not as random gatherings, but as organized teams.
Each cell took a different role.
One cell might help with movement, another with food processing, another with protection. For the first time in Earth’s history, life was no longer alone.
It had become a community. This was the birth of multicellular life. Imagine taking a group of simple workers and assigning each a specialized task.
Suddenly, the group can do things no single worker could ever do alone. That’s exactly what life did. Cells began to form: thin sheets small tubes tiny floating bodies first tissues early organs Nothing had a face yet.
Nothing had bones or muscles.
But for the first time, life had shape. This new complexity changed everything. By 600 million years ago, Earth’s oceans became home to strange, soft-bodied creatures.
These were the Ediacaran organisms—some shaped like leaves, some like disks, some like simple ribbons drifting along the ocean floor. They had no eyes, no mouths, no legs.
But they had something more important—structure. It was as if evolution was practicing, preparing for something big. And then, around 541 million years ago, the universe flipped a switch.
Life exploded. Not in a violent way, but in a creative one.
This event is known as the Cambrian Explosion—
a period when life diversified at a speed never seen before or after. In just a few million years (which is fast in evolutionary time), the oceans filled with astonishing new creatures: Animals with eyes appeared.
Animals with legs appeared.
Animals with mouths and teeth appeared.
Animals with shells, spines, and armour appeared.
Animals that could swim, crawl, dig, hunt, escape appeared. Life had gone from quiet simplicity to explosive complexity. For the first time: predators existed prey existed movement became important survival became a contest instincts began to form The ocean turned into a living, moving world full of shapes and behaviors that no cell could ever have imagined. This period shaped the direction of evolution forever.
Every major body plan—eyes, limbs, nerves, muscles—was introduced here.
Even humans, billions of years later, inherited these designs. If the first single-celled life was the “childhood” of biology,
the Cambrian Explosion was its “teenage years”—
full of energy, experimentation, mistakes, and breakthroughs. Suddenly, life had possibilities.
And the planet had characters—creatures with presence, strength, and movement.
Earth was no longer a silent world.
It was a stage filled with drama, motion, and competition. The rise of complex life was not just a biological event.
It was the moment when Earth began to feel alive in every sense. The next chapters will follow this story forward—
to fish that conquered the seas,
animals that crawled onto land,
giants that ruled the forests,
and finally… the strange, unlikely mammal that would one day look back at the stars and ask: “Where did we come from?” But before we reach humans, we still have a long and beautiful journey through Earth’s ancient history. And the next chapter begins with one of the most dramatic eras ever known… Long before humans appeared, long before the first mammals even learned to walk on the forest floor, Earth belonged to a different kind of ruler—creatures so enormous, so powerful, and so extraordinary that even today, millions of years after their extinction, their presence still shapes our imagination. This was the age of dinosaurs, a chapter in Earth’s story that lasted for an almost unimaginable span of time. The age began around 252 million years ago, right after the greatest extinction event in Earth’s history. Almost ninety percent of all life had vanished, leaving behind a silent and empty world. From this emptiness, nature started again. It rebuilt life from the ground up, and among the earliest survivors were small, agile reptiles. These creatures were the first hints of what dinosaurs would eventually become. The early dinosaurs were not the giants we imagine today. Some were no bigger than dogs, quick on their feet, alert, and adaptable. The world they lived in was harsh—hot temperatures, dry landscapes, and a single, massive continent called Pangaea. Yet these creatures slowly spread across this great supercontinent, finding opportunities in environments where other animals struggled. Evolution was warming up, quietly preparing for something far greater. As millions of years passed, the Earth changed. The land began to break apart. The climate softened. Forests began to grow. And with these changes came the next great era—the Jurassic period. This was the moment when dinosaurs truly became the dominant life on Earth. Towering trees formed vast green landscapes, and in these forests, giants roamed. Long-necked creatures like Brachiosaurus stretched toward the treetops, while powerful hunters like Allosaurus stalked the plains. The skies were alive with flying reptiles, and the oceans had their own massive predators. Earth had become a vibrant, living planet filled with movement, sound, and life of every shape and size. By the time the Cretaceous period arrived, dinosaurs had reached the height of their diversity. New species evolved in every corner of the world. Some dinosaurs wore thick armor plates, others carried horns, and some moved with the speed and intelligence of modern predators. This was the era of Triceratops, Velociraptors, Ankylosaurs, and the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex. Forests grew richer, flowering plants appeared for the first time, and ecosystems became more complex than ever before. Every day in this world was a delicate balance between survival and extinction.
Perhaps the most astonishing fact about dinosaurs is not their size, but the length of their rule. Dinosaurs dominated Earth for over 186 million years. Humans, by comparison, have existed for only around three hundred thousand years. If Earth’s history were compressed into a single day, dinosaurs would rule for nearly five hours. Humans would appear only in the final second before midnight. Dinosaurs were not an accident; they were one of nature’s greatest successes. But even the greatest reigns come to an end. About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid approached Earth—so large and so powerful that its impact would change the planet forever. It struck near the region we now call Mexico with the force of billions of atomic bombs. In moments, forests burned, oceans rose in enormous waves, and the sky filled with dust that blocked sunlight across the globe. Plants died. Animals starved. The carefully balanced ecosystems collapsed.
Within a geological instant, the dinosaurs vanished. Yet their fall was not the end of life—it was the turning of a page. Their disappearance opened the door for small mammals, creatures that had quietly survived in the shadows for millions of years. With the giants gone, these tiny survivors began their slow journey toward becoming something entirely new. Without the extinction of dinosaurs, humans would never have existed. The age of dinosaurs ended in destruction, but from that destruction came possibility. Nature was preparing the stage for a new kind of life, one that would eventually learn to think, to wonder, and to tell the story of the world.When the last roar of the dinosaurs faded from the Earth, the planet fell into a long silence. Forests were burned, skies were dark, and oceans were restless. It was a world that had just survived its greatest catastrophe—a world waiting for someone new to take its first steps onto the empty stage. In that silence, something small stirred. A creature no bigger than a rat, fragile and soft, crawled out from the shadows. It was not powerful. It had no claws like a raptor, no teeth like a tyrannosaur, no armor like a triceratops. But it had something else—
the ability to survive quietly. This small creature was a mammal. It had survived where the giants had failed.
Not because it was strong, but because it was adaptable. In a world rebuilt from ashes, this adaptability was everything. The fall of the dinosaurs was not just an ending.
It was an opening—a door through which mammals stepped with silent determination. With the giant reptiles gone, forests grew again, fruits ripened in the warm sunlight, insects multiplied, and rivers filled with new life. The planet became soft, green, and welcoming. And in this gentler world, the mammals began their slow rise. At first, they were tiny—shy creatures that lived in trees, hunted at night, and hid during the day.
But they were warm-blooded, quick, alert, and endlessly curious. Their bodies may have been small, but their potential was enormous. Over millions of years, these early mammals spread across the world. They learned to climb, dig, swim, glide, jump, and explore. Some grew larger. Some stayed small. Some returned to the oceans and became whales. Others dove underground and became moles. Evolution was experimenting, testing, trying new forms—looking for the perfect combination of strength, intelligence, and adaptability. Among these experiments, a very special group emerged:
the primates. They were different from all other animals.
Their hands were flexible, their fingers could grasp branches, and their eyes faced forward, giving them depth and precision. They learned to move gracefully through trees using balance and coordination. Life in the forest demanded awareness, quick thinking, and constant learning. And slowly, their brains began to grow. These early primates were not powerful hunters. They were not the fastest or the strongest. But they could notice patterns. They could find solutions. They could learn from mistakes. They were building something quietly—something that would one day change the entire destiny of life on Earth. The forests of ancient Earth were filled with their movements: small groups travelling together, mothers carrying children, young ones playing, elders watching from the branches. While other animals lived moment by moment, primates remembered. They planned. They cared for one another. Social bonds became their greatest strength. Time moved forward. Millions of years passed. Continents shifted. Climates changed. Forests rose and fell. Yet primates adapted through every challenge. About 25 million years ago, a new branch of primates appeared—the apes.
Stronger. Smarter. More social. More curious. Apes learned to swing through trees with powerful arms. They ate fruits, seeds, leaves, and sometimes small animals. Their groups became more complex. Their social lives more emotional. Their intelligence deeper. From these ancient apes came a smaller, more vulnerable, but extraordinary lineage—
one that would one day walk on two legs, learn to shape tools, control fire, speak languages, build cities, create religions, and imagine the universe itself. This lineage was our own. But before that moment arrived, Earth needed time.
Millions more years of quiet growth and slow change. The rise of mammals and primates was not fast.
It was patient, gentle, steady.
It was evolution writing the early chapters of a story that would one day belong to us. Nature had lost its giants, but in their place, it had found something far more powerful—
not in muscle, not in size, but in mind. And slowly, hidden in forests and scattered across continents, the first sparks of human possibility began to glow. If the dinosaurs ruled Earth with strength,
the mammals and primates would one day rule it with thought. The journey toward humanity had begun. The world that the early primates inherited was changing again.
Not softly, not slowly, but with a force that reshaped continents, oceans, forests, and even the destiny of life itself.
As the climate cooled, a new chapter began—one of ice, wind, and relentless survival. This was the age of the great ice sheets. Around 2.6 million years ago, the temperature of Earth began to drop.
Snow fell in the northern regions and did not melt.
Layer upon layer, year after year, it pressed itself into massive blocks of ice.
These glaciers grew until they covered entire continents—
thick, white, silent, and endless. They moved slowly, like frozen mountains creeping across the land,
scraping valleys into the earth and pushing forests aside.
The world’s water was trapped in ice, and sea levels fell, connecting continents with land bridges and opening new paths across the planet.
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