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Sunday, September 07, 2014

Government bureaucrats don't mend their ways

The GOI bureaucrats do not want to mend themselves. They seem no longer fear contempt of court orders, including the orders of the highest court !

Reproduced below is a letter dated 07-07-2014 addressed to Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon.Minister of State, GOI, Min. of Personnel, PG & Pensions, New Delhi by Bharat Pensioners Samaj. 

The GOI bureaucrats are trying to pay arrears of  pension from 01-01-2006 ( i.e. with retrospective effect from the date of revision of pay scales - 6 th CPC ) ONLY TO THE PETITIONERS who filed the cases in the Courts. The 'unprecedented' treatment now being given to Pre- 2006 GOI Pensioners  (Family pensioners) is unfortunately similar to the treatment being meted out to LIC pensioners - ' some amount payable ' to a few dozen petitioners deposited by the LIC in the Jaipur and Chandigarh High Courts. 

The petitions are in fact for common demand of updation of pension and 100% DR  to pre August 1997 retirees and in the 'representative capacity' on behalf of one and all aggrieved / affected pensioners - the petitioners had / have moral and monetary support by many pensioners/ associations.

How the Hon. Ministers 'meekly' accept the 'ill advice' of the Babus who ' in their wisdom ' misguide against the Courts' dictum/s or order/s is  a 'difficult' question which the Hon. Ministers may not be in a position to answer or willing to answer.

 " Subject : Payment of arrears  of pension for the period form 01-01-2006 to 23-09-2012
Kindly stop driving every affected individual pensioner to the Courts of law. instead extended automatically to similarly placed pensioners Court Judgment confirmed or delivered by the Apex Court as was recommended by 5th CPC also vide their Para 126.5.
Sir. with reference to then MOS (P) answer dated 12.02.2014 in Lok Sabha to UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 3406 regarding PAYMENT OF ARREARS TO PENSIONERS your kind attention is drawn to the facts that Principal CAT order dated 1. l l .2011 in OA No.655/2010 quashed clarificatory OM dated 03.10.2008 and directed to re-fix the pension of all pre-2006 retirees w.e.f. 1.1.2006. based on the Resolution dated 29.08.2008. While dismissing WP (C) No. 1535/2012 of UOI on 29-4-2013. Hon'ble Delhi High Court upheld the verdict of the CAT-PB. Dismissing SLP (C) No.23055/2013 filed by UOI against the judgement of Hon'ble Delhi High on 29-7-2013 and then Review Petition (C) No.2492/2013 on 12-11-2013 and finally Curative Petition (C) No. 126/2014 on 30-4-2014, Hon'ble Supreme Court upheld the Judgment of the Hon'ble Delhi High Court. With this CAT verdict dated 1-11-2011. referred to, has attained legal finality,

But unfortunately instead of implementing the said judgement in letter & spirit of all pre 2006 Pensioners DOP & PW going against the judgement. has taken a decision to implement it qua petitioners.

Sir. as is admitted in the answer to Lok Sabha unstarred Q.No 3406 Honerable CAT -PB order under reference has already been implemented from an arbitrary date 24.09.2012. Thus in all legality the arrears w.e.f. 01 .01 .2006 too should he paid to all & not only to a small section of pensioners who could afford to go to the Court of law.

Sir, Bharat Pensioners Samaj in its capacity as the largest & oldest organization of C.G. Pensioners over 550 Pensioners Associations affiliated/associated to it, appeal to you to ensure correct delivery of justice by implementing the judgement under reference to all pre 2006 pensioner so that other affected Pensioners in the evening of their live are not pushed to seek justice from court of law. "

(SN - A 1992 PENSIONER)