Letter to Chairman in FORSE Letter Pad
SPEEDPOST
Forse/Ch/0314
June 27,
2014
To
Sri C.S. Verma, Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd. Ispat Bhawan, Lodhi Road, NEW DELHI-110003.
Sub: Request for Appointment for a Meeting
with you
Ref: Our letterNos. Forse/Ch/0114 dated 18th March and
Forse/Ch/0214 dated May 26, 2014
Dear Sir,
Please refer to our above letters in which we explained
the woes of and issues concerning the Retired Employees of SAIL and explained
the need of a Meeting with you as we feel that SAIL need to do more for its
Retirees. Perhaps communication channels are getting clogged due to various
reasons and our pathetic stories are not reaching your ears in proper format.
Hence we are pursuing this new path of establishing fresh channels as a
collective. Since the DPE OMs mentioned in our earlier letters originated on
the persuasion and hard work done by SCOPE we feel that now being the
Chairman of both SCOPE and SAIL you will initiate fresh action with renewed
effort to help the retired Employees of SAIL who are in dire need of your
sympathetic considerations.
We request you to please fix a date and time as per
your convenience ( with 7-10 days of advance intimation to us) for a meeting
with us to give you first hand account of the condition of Early Retirees and
help you in finding solution.
With regards,
Yours
sincerely,
(V.N.Sharma)
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Chairman
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SPEEDPOST
No. Forse/Ch/0214
May 26, 2014
To
Sri C.S. Verma,
Chairman,
Steel Authority of India Ltd.
Ispat Bhawan, Lodhi Road,
NEW DELHI-110003.
Sri C.S. Verma,
Chairman,
Steel Authority of India Ltd.
Ispat Bhawan, Lodhi Road,
NEW DELHI-110003.
Sub: Appointment for a Meeting with you
Ref: Our letter
No. Forse/Ch/0114 dated March 18, 2014 and SAIL’s letter
Nos.PER/Coordn/Grievance/14/04/7 and PER/Coordn/ Grievance /14/05/8 dated 3rd
May and 8th May 2014 (copies enclosed)
Dear Sir,
Please refer to
our above letter seeking appointment with you to discuss the issues concerning
retired employees of SAIL, most of whom are in their twilight years. We are
sorry to point out that it was not even acknowledged, not to talk of granting appointment
for the meeting. In the meantime, we are in receipt of two letters from SAIL
which were replied against our Appeal to the President of India via CPGRAMS. We
fail to understand the reason for the indiscrete silence of SAIL on our
communication.
1. We would like to convey that SAIL has repeatedly been
harping, including in the letter dated 3rd and 9th May 2014, on the prevailing retirement
benefits given to its retired employees. No body knows this better than us
because we are the beneficiaries of advantages/disadvantages of the existing schemes
whereas the current set of Managers and employees look at it only on paper.
2.
Sir, I would
like to draw your kind attention to the fact and make it clear that our problem
is not the existing schemes but the explicit opposition of SAIL to the schemes
to be formulated for ‘creation of a corpus for retired employees of SAIL with
1.5% of the PBT’ under the DPE advice vide their various OMs including those
dated 08th July 2009 and 20th July 2011. I must reiterate that the OMs of DPE
were formulated after a lot of consultation between various Ministries, SCOPE
and CPSEs on the ever deteriorating condition of the retired employees, most of
whom were from the pioneering batches of the CPSEs, due to continuous price
rise, higher expenses on health care etc. These OMs must be construed as the
commitment of the Govt. Of India towards the builder of modern India, the
output of whose hard work in the then prevailing difficult conditions are
enjoyed today by the current set of employees as well as the people of this
country. I would like to mention that Late Dr. P.L. Agrawal, one of the early
Chairman of SAIL has already revealed his anguish on the ever deteriorating Steel Man’s
quality of life in his book ‘Journey of A Steel Man’ (p. 29).
3.
It would not be out of place to
mention that other CPSEs like Oil sector companies, BHEL etc were all giving
similar or better retirement benefits to their employees in the past as SAIL
was giving but in spite of that they have implemented the DPE OMs with more
than 1.5% of the PBT for their retired employees. We may like to put it on
record that by not doing the same SAIL will ultimately be considered and listed
as a bad employer by the past, present and future employees which will only
ensure a downward journey for the Company in future.
4.
Sir, before we close this letter
we would like to bring to your kind notice the extremely negative terms and
conditions of the Mediclaim policy under the agreement between SAIL and
Insurance company, like the low amount of coverage for both OPD and
hospitalisation, and various tests, list of Cappings, important exclusions etc,
compounded by the inefficient operation of the policy by the TPA in terms of
I-cards not issued even after 5 months, delayed approval and payment of Bills
by months and indifference of SAIL’s offices responsible to manage, co-ordinate
and supervise the Mediclaim scheme, leaves nothing for SAIL to boast of its
Healthcare mechanism for the retired employees.
In view of the above and also
that communication channels between retired employees and SAIL management is
getting clogged due to SAIL being a big Company I, on behalf of the Federation
and its members, request you to kindly take some time out as per your
convenience and seriously consider giving us appointment to explain our
condition and the urgent need for formulating schemes to take care of our needs
and improvement in the Mediclaim policy/ Healthcare schemes. It would not be
out of place to say that a good number of us are in our twilight years and we
are not left with sufficient time to wait and watch for the policy formulation
and implementation with ease.
With regards,
Yours faithfully,
(V.N.Sharma)
Encl: xerox copies of 3 letters
SPEEDPOST
No. Forse/Ch/0114
March 18, 2014
To
Sri C.S. Verma,
Chairman,
Steel Authority of India Ltd.
Ispat Bhawan, Lodhi Road,
NEW DELHI-110003.
Sri C.S. Verma,
Chairman,
Steel Authority of India Ltd.
Ispat Bhawan, Lodhi Road,
NEW DELHI-110003.
Sub: Introducing
ourselves and seeking appointment for a Meeting
Dear Sir,
I would like to
draw your kind attention to the fact that in a meeting held on 1st & 2nd
March 2014 at Rourkela, it was resolved to form a Federation of Retired SAIL
Employees, an Apex Body of all the Associations of Retired Employees of SAIL,
plants and units with its registered office at Rourkela (copy enclosed). The
formalities for its registration are getting completed.
During the
discussion, the representatives of the Member Associations expressed the
miserable condition of a large number of ea rly retirees who are in extremely
difficult physical and financial conditions in their twilight years. Also came
into the discussion the SAIL Mediclaim policy with large number of capping,
repudiation of bonafide claims and its inept handling of Insurance company and
TPA in implementation.
In view of this
we request you to kindly give us some time, as per your convenience, for a
meeting with you to discuss the issues concerning the Retired SAIL Employees
and the ways to help them to ensure an honourable survival.
We propose a broad Agenda for the meeting as
(i) post-Retirement Benefits, (ii) improvement in SAIL Medical facility/ SAIL
Mediclaim Policy and its operational procedures and (iii) considering the
Retired Employees as a part of SAIL Family and making their life more
meaningful as senior citizen. These will be detailed after getting the date
from you.
With regards,
Yours faithfully,
(V.N.Sharma)
Encl: xerox copy of the Resolution (3 pages)
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