Friday, July 25, 2014

Suggestions made by Postal Officers’ Pensioners’ Association, Hyderabad Memorandum Paras (To add or amend Please) On 28th May 2014

Para 3.3: Full Pension is now allowed for 10 years of service of qualifying service. For Grameen Dak Sewa Employees in Department of Posts who retired in Tamilnadu, it was decided by the Hon’ble Supreme Court to extend the benefit of pension taking short fall period of qualifying service from the regular service, if any, put in by the petitioner earlier while coming on promotion to departmental status. This benefit may be extended by the 7th CPC to all such employees as explained in para 8.2

Para 3.17: The NDA Govt. allowed 50% of DA merged into Pay called DP and merged in Last Drawn Emoluments under FR 33 for fixation of basic pension. The 6th CPC diluted this and those who retired between 1.2.2004 and 1.1.2005 may be shown some dispensation while refixing the revised consolidated pension, this was not honoured. All such pensioner should also be given notional fixation as the DP once merged into Emoluments cannot be truncated.

Para 5.3: For eligibility of family pension, family members under sub-para (iii) should also include – Widowed / Divorced Daughters-in-Law who are actually dependent upon the pensioner equally along with a Daughter to avoid discrimination in the same gender AND ALSO to help those dependents whose parents are not Pensioners and not holding any Vocation to get the minimum family pension.

Para 5(f) to add: Grant of Certain Percentage of Pension / Family Pension in favour of physically and mentally disabled children who are eligible for family pension according to their turn till the parents cease to support towards hostel subsidy or conveyance charges. Severe disabled children/adults are to be admitted for their Care/Welfare in reputed Welfare & Rehabilitation Institutions at a considerable amount of fees towards lodging and boarding also. This is necessary till they get family pension according to their turn and to mitigate the existing economical hardship of such parents who are undergoing miseries.

Para 7.6 to add: Still there are 33 Postal Dispensaries to merge in the nearby CGHS head quarters. There will not be any administrative difficulty when the GOI is having Information Technology with e-Governance. The proposal for upgrading the Dispensary at Visakhapatnam is kept hanging in air since so many years even though the proposal was taken up in SCOVA and through local Hon’ble MP. The pensioners are suffering from the denial of Indoor Medical Treatment facility as explained in the knowledge of CS (MA) Rules 1944 (framed in Pre-Independence).

Para 8.7 to add: At present 20 years of qualifying service is needed for Voluntary Retirement. With the reduction of maximum 33 years of qualifying service, the same may be reduced to 13 years proportionately. EPS-1995 Pensioners Superannuate at the age of 58 years and/or also who has rendered pensionable service of 20 years of pensionable service or more, their pensionable service shall be increased by adding a weightage of 2 years under Section 10(2) of EPS Act, 1995.


Para 8.11 Pension Adalats: The present stipulation permitting the Pensioners Associations to take up and assist only those pensioners / family pensioners who are illiterates etc. should be withdrawn by the Pension Ministry.

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