NCCPA CIRCULAR
NATIONAL CO-ORINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13/c Feroze
shah Road,
New Delhi. 110 001
Dated: 30.5.2016
Dear Comrades,
We send herewith a copy of the NJCA Circular letter dated 27th May,
2016. The same is self-explanatory. You could see there-from that
the Government might not positively react to the demands placed by the
NJCA over the recommendations of the 7th CPC. Simply
raising the minimum wage by a few rupees without any consequential change in
the fitment formula or pay matrix will not bring about any tangible benefit.
The revision of the minimum wage along would benefit only those who are likely
to be recruited to the cadre of MTS in future. As you are aware, the 7th CPC
had not accepted any demand of the employees. It is beset with dissenting
notes in many chapters. The fight between the personnel in the organized
Group A Services and all India Services had triggered such dissenting note
on the part of the Member who retired from the IAS. A significant section
of the Secretaries to various Departments, we were told, were against any
revision over the recommendations of the 7th CPC. In any
case, we are to await the outcome of the discussions at the NJCA meeting
scheduled to be held on 3rd June, at New Delhi.
Coming to the issues pertaining to the Pensioners, we must recall that the 7th CPC
had rejected almost all the demands unanimously placed before them by the
Pensioners organizations. While tendering oral evidence the Staff Side had
inter alia pressed for the parity for the past pensioners before the
Commission, especially in the background of the granting of one rank one pension
to the Defence Personnel. It is ironic to note that the Defence Ministry
which had piloted the demand of the Ex-service men for one rank one pension
i.e. parity between the past and present pensioners has now taken a stand
against such parity for civil servants. No personnel either in the
organized Group A services or All India Services would stand benefited by the
present recommendation of the 7th CPC except a few as most of
them were in receipt of almost time bound promotion in their career. The modified
parity one must recall has only benefited the upper echelons in the
bureaucracy. One can understand that the Govt. refusing to make
improvements over the suggestion made by a Commission. But it must be
most intolerable when the Govt. refuses to implement a recommendation which was
the outcome of a persistent presentation jointly by almost all the
beneficiaries. The plea advanced for non acceptance of the recommendation
is the alleged impracticability due to the non availability of the relevant records.
Should the pensioner suffer for the reason that the concerned department of the
Government has not kept the records properly? It is the most callous approach
and must be resisted with all the force that we can command. We cannot afford
to have this situation to develop. We are certain that most of the individual
pensioners would be able to provide the requisite information needed to
consider the first option in the pension fixation to the concerned department
and most of the Departments would be able to verify the same with the available
documents with them. We must however await the decision of the NJCA in
the matter.
In the meantime, all affiliates will take such action needed to mobilize the
pensioners and undertake a serious educational campaign.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
KKN.Kutty.
Secretary General.
Copy of National Joint Council of Action circular letter dated 27.5.2016
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