Reply of the Labour Minister on the National Minimum Pension (Guarantee)
Bill, 2014 introduced by Hon'ble MP Nishikant Dubey and reply by Nishikant Dubey in p. 397-400 of is copied here. Highlighted para in page 297-8 refers to our letter              e-mail: rudypr@sansad.nic.in
FORSE/Ch/0914
Aug 16,
2014
Sri Rajiv Pratap Rudy,
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
& General Secretary, Bhartiya Janta Party
AB-97, Shahjahan Road,
New Delhi - 110003
Sub
: Retired SAIL Employees living under distressed condition- Appointment
with Hon’ble PM at Ranchi.
Hon’ble Sansad Rajiv Pratap Rudy Ji,
We congratulate you on being nominated as the General Secretary of the
ruling Bharatiya Janta Party. We are sure, with your dynamic, youthful and
energetic personality, you will take the Party and the country to newer
heights in coming months and years. We desire to have your active help in
getting a meeting fixed with the Hon’ble Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi Ji
during his visit to Ranchi on 21st August 2014. A copy of the
letter posted to him on 12th August 2014 is enclosed herewith for
your kind perusal and use if you so desire. Yet we are placing the story of
our miserable condition in brief in the following paragraphs.
We would like to draw your kind attention to the
distressed condition in which more than one lakh Retired Employees of SAIL
and their spouse are living. Due to basic changes in post-retirement
benefit policy for CPSE employees SAIL retirees are grouped as pre-2007 and post-2007 category retirees.
These pre-2007 joined service in early 50s and 60s and
they are now in their 70s & 80s. There cannot be two opinions that
the strong foundation laid by these pioneers in the
formative years (1950s/60s) and the commitment, hard work & contributions
made by these retirees under very hard times (as these plants were being
established then in undeveloped/non-developed areas with no infrastructure or
facilities either for work or family) contributed to make SAIL the pride of
the nation as Maharatna today. SAIL has been earning profit since more than 15 years.
It is now a Maharatna company by its virtue of financial strength & its
contribution to development of the country in various aspects. Steel
production & consumption are indicative parameters of the development of
a country. The PSU owes some mercy to these Pioneer Very
Senior Citizen Retirees.
The
2nd Pay Revision Committee for PSUs had recommended welfare
benefits from a corpus created out of 1.5% of the Profit before Tax (PBT)
from 1.1.2007 for these pre-2007 retirees. GOI issued necessary directions to
all PSUs for its implementation. Oil companies and few other PSUs have
already implemented the same whereas SAIL
continues to ignore the Government order and leave us to face more and more
miseries. Even after getting Govt of India SAIL could not
formulate a policy for them.
Their
miserable condition is because they do not
have a pension to bank upon. Ever lowering return on their saved deposits,
increasing prices of essential commodities and higher expenses due to health
care in old age is adding to the distressed living, and last but not the least,
is the uncaring attitude of SAIL even when they are under obligation to help
the Retired Employees. You should not be surprised to know that some of our colleagues
have committeed suicide because of
financial stress.
We
approached various authorities incl. the Ministers and Officers of the Govt
for 5 years without any result. SAIL is not prepared to talk, leave alone
implementing the Govt OMs. Recently we wrote a few letters to the Prime
Minister, Finance Minister and Minister of Steel but there is no response.
They can be seen in http://sailex.blogspot.in
We
request you to be kind enough, if possible, to help arrange a meeting of our
representatives with the Prime Minister during his visit to Ranchi on 21st
August 2014.
In
case our above request of meeting the Hon’ble PM at Ranchi is not feasible we
would like to request you to forward
our request to the Prime Minister or Steel Minister and help us in arranging
a meeting so that SAIL is appropriately advised to implement the Govt
OMs in time bound manner. This will benefit more than a lakh of Retired
Employees of SAIL and their spouse in the age group of 70s and 80s. Since
the corpus to be created under the Govt. advice is from Profit of PSUs
themselves, we assure you that no budgetary support is required.
Further as these pioneer retirees are in 70 years & 80 years old, the
corpus will not be required perennially.
We
hope to have a kind hearted hearing and extra push from you to the issues
under reference for the benefit of the Very senior Citizens.
With
kind regards,
Yours
sincerely,
(V.N.Sharma)
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FORSE/Ch/FH/0814
Aug 14, 2014
Sri Parimal Nathwani,
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
27, Ferozeshah Road,
New Delhi - 110011
Sub : Retired SAIL Employees living under distressed condition.
Hon’ble Sansad Parimal Nathwani Ji,
We would like to draw your kind attention to the distressed condition in which more than one lakh Retired Employees of SAIL and their spouse are living. Due to basic changes in post-retirement benefit policy for CPSE employees SAIL retirees are grouped as pre-2007 and post-2007 category retirees.
These pre-2007 joined service in early 50s and 60s and they are now in their 70s & 80s. There cannot be two opinions that the strong foundation laid by these pioneers in the formative years (1950s/60s) and the commitment, hard work & contributions made by these retirees under very hard times (as these plants were being established then in undeveloped/non-developed areas with no infrastructure or facilities either for work or family) contributed to make SAIL the pride of the nation as Maharatna today. SAIL has been earning profit since more than 15 years. It is now a Maharatna company by its virtue of financial strength & its contribution to development of the country in various aspects. Steel production & consumption are indicative parameters of the development of a country. The PSU owes some mercy to these Pioneer Very Senior Citizen Retirees.
The 2nd Pay Revision Committee for PSUs had recommended welfare benefits from a corpus created out of 1.5% of the Profit before Tax (PBT) from 1.1.2007 for these pre-2007 retirees. GOI issued necessary directions to all PSUs for its implementation. Oil companies and few other PSUs have already implemented the same whereas SAIL continues to ignore the Government order and leave us to face more and more miseries. Even after getting Govt of India SAIL could not formulate a policy for them.
Their miserable condition is because they do not have a pension to bank upon. Ever lowering return on their saved deposits, increasing prices of essential commodities and higher expenses due to health care in old age is adding to the distressed living, and last but not the least, is the uncaring attitude of SAIL even when they are under obligation to help the Retired Employees. You should not be surprised to know that some of our colleagues have committeed suicide because of financial stress.
We approached various authorities incl. the Ministers and Officers of the Govt for 5 years without any result. SAIL is not prepared to talk, leave alone implementing the Govt OMs. Recently we wrote a few letters to the Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Minister of Steel but there is no response. They can be seen in http://sailex.blogspot.in
We are writing this letter to you with a hope that (i) You will accede to our request in the subject matter and include the Retired CPSE employees in your Agenda (ii) forward our request to the Prime Minister or Steel Minister and help us in arranging a meeting so that SAIL is appropriately advised to implement the Govt OMs in time bound manner. This will benefit more than a lakh of Retired Employees of SAIL and their spouse in the age group of 70s and 80s. The reason for requesting you to take extra trouble is because many of us are financially and health wise in miserable condition and so it will be difficult for our representatives to visit Delhi too frequently unless a programme is fixed. I hope you will kindly understand and appreciate our limits. However, our members/ representatives can see you at Ranchi if they get your programme of visit in advance.
We also request you to be kind enough, if possible, to help arrange a meeting of our representatives with the Prime Minister during his visit to Ranchi on 21st August 2014.
We hope to have a kind hearted hearing from you.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
(V.N.Sharma)
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By e-mail
No. FORSE/ Steel/ 0314
Aug. 08, 2014
Sri Narendra Singh Tomar,
Union Minister for Steel,
Govt. of India,
Udyog Bhawan,
New Delhi-110011
Sub: Request for creation of schemes for Pioneer & Early SAIL Retirees in distress.
Ref: Our letter No. FORSE/ Steel/ 0114 dated June 07, 2014 (copy attached)
Hon’ble Ispat Mantri Narendra Singh Tomar Ji,
We would like to draw your kind attention to our above referred letter on the same subject .The letter explained the miseries faced by those belonging to the Pioneer batches who retired before 2007 from the services of Steel Authority of India Ltd, a PSU under the Ministry of Steel, and who are all around 70 years old and above- many amongst us are 75/80 years and above.
We regret to say that we have not been heard by SAIL or the concerned department of the Government though we have been sending our representations individually as well as through various Unit forums for the last five years. Ever increasing cost of living and the higher cost of healthcare due to old age aggravates our miseries and some of our members are forced to commit suicide. We hope to be heard by you this time and urgent action taken.
It is quite unfortunate for us that the present generation of Directors who are at the helm of affairs of SAIL had not witnessed the struggle, pain & strain undergone during 1950s & 60s by Pioneer & Early SAIL Retirees when they successfully laid the foundation of the Industrial Revolution for Steel making in India while leading an unsafe life in the unfriendly green-field locations.
Due to basic changes in post-retirement benefit policy for CPSE employees SAIL retirees are grouped as pre-2007 and post-2007 categories. This letter refers to the destitute living conditions of the former for whom the 2ndPay Revision Committee for PSUs recommended welfare benefits from a corpus created out of 1.5% of the Profit before Tax (PBT) from 1.1.2007 for the pre-2007 retirees. GOI issued necessary directions to all PSUs for its implementation. Oil companies and few other PSUs have already implemented the same whereas SAIL continues to ignore the Government order and leave us to face more and more miseries.
There is no visible reason for SAIL’s inaction and negative approach towards this issue because SAIL has been earning profit for more than 15 years and it is now a Maharatna company by virtue of its financial strength & its contribution to development of the country in various aspects.
In view of the fact that most of our members are in their twilight years the above scheme implemented under the Government advice will be a small time affair. SAIL will not require budgetary support for implementing the suggested scheme for their Early Retirees.
Government permission, as requested in our earlier letter, to transfer the unclaimed amount of Provident Fund deposits with SAIL to the proposed corpus may enhance the much needed financial benefits to the retirees.
We would also like to bring to your kind notice that SAIL or Government did not think for the need of a Pension scheme for hard working Steel makers of SAIL whereas many other PSUs and Banks formulated and implemented the pension scheme at later dates in their organization which takes into account the regular increase in even Dearness Allowances.
We are confident that with your positive approach to solve the problems of common man and quick decision making we will get some results sooner than later.
When approached through the UPA's Hon'ble Union Minister of Steel and later on through the Hon'ble President of India in the past SAIL has provided wrong information for not doing its work - implementing the Govt OMs.
In view of the above we request you to kindly spare about an hour of your valuable time, as per your convenience, to listen to our stories of continued apathetic attitude of SAIL and to help us get rid of our miseries.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
(V.N.Sharma)
Chairman
Federation of Retired SAIL Employees
M: 9431102680; 9437221963
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SPEEDPOST/
e-mail
FORSE/Ch/FH/0614
July 26
2014
Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab,
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha))
AB-94, Shahjahan Road,
New Delhi-110 011
Sub
: National Minimum
Pension (Guarantee) Bill, 2014, to include Retired Central Public Sector
Employees
Hon’ble Sansad Bhartruhari Mahtab Ji,
We congratulate you for introducing a forward looking
‘National Minimum Pension (Guarantee) Bill, 2014, for retired person from
unorganised and private sectors’ in the ongoing session of Parliament which
also envisages setting up of a National Pension Board. Our request is to include
the Retired Employees of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) also
because of the miserable condition they are living in because they do not
have pension. Lowering of return on their saved deposits and ever increasing
prices of essential commodities and higher expenses due to health care in old
age is adding to the distressed living. You should not be surprised to know
that some of our colleagues have committeed suicide because of financial
stress.
We represent more than one lakh Retired Employees of
SAIL and their spouse who are facing miserable conditions in the twilight of
their life simply because the Govt of India could not formulate a policy for
them. Due to basic changes in post-retirement
benefit policy for CPSE employees SAIL retirees are grouped as pre-2007 and post-2007 category retirees.
This
letter refers to the miserable living conditions of the former (pre-2007
retirees) for whom the 2ndPay Revision Committee for PSUs had
recommended welfare benefits from a corpus created out of 1.5% of the Profit
before Tax (PBT) from 1.1.2007. GOI issued necessary directions to all PSUs
for its implementation. Oil companies and few other PSUs have already
implemented the same whereas SAIL
continues to ignore the Government order and leave us to face more and more
miseries.
These pre-2007 joined service in early 50s and 60s and
they are now in their 70s & 80s. There cannot be two opinions that
the strong foundation laid by these pioneers in the
formative years (1950s/60s) and the commitment, hard work & contributions
made by these retirees under very hard times (as these plants were being
established then in undeveloped/non-developed areas with no infrastructure or
facilities either for work or family) contributed to make SAIL the pride of
the nation as Maharatna today. SAIL has been earning profit since more than 15 years.
It is now a Maharatna company by its virtue of financial strength & its
contribution to development of the country in various aspects. Steel
production & consumption are indicative parameters of the development of
a country. The PSU owes some mercy to these Pioneer Very
Senior Citizen Retirees.
We
approached various authorities incl. the Ministers of the UPA Govt for 5
years without any result. SAIL is not prepared to talk, leave alone
implementing the Govt OMs. After the formation of NDA Govt in the Centre we
wrote a few letters to the Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Minister of Steel
but there is no response. They can be seen in http://sailex.blogspot.in
We
are writing this letter to you with a hope that (i) You will accede to our request in the subject matter and include the
Retired CPSE employees in your National Minimum Pension (Guarantee) Bill, 2014, along with those
from unorganized and private sectors and (ii) forward our request to the
Prime Minister (copy attached) or Steel Minister and help us in arranging
a meeting so that SAIL is appropriately advised to implement the Govt
OMs in time bound manner. This will benefit more
than a lakh of Retired Employees of SAIL and their spouse in the age group of
70s and 80s. The reason for requesting you to take extra trouble is
because many of us are financially and health wise in miserable
condition and so it will be difficult for our representatives to visit Delhi
too frequently unless a programme is fixed. I hope you will kindly understand
and appreciate our limits. However, our members/ representatives can see you
at Bhubaneshwar or Rourkela if they get your programme of visit to these
places in advance.
We
also request you to be kind enough to raise a question in Parliament, if
possible,
as to why SAIL has ignored the Govt OMs with regard to the post-retirement
welfare benefits from a corpus created out of 1.5% of the Profit before Tax
(PBT) from 1.1.2007. GOI issued necessary directions to all PSUs for its
implementation which Oil Sector and other companies have implemented.
We
hope to have a kind hearted hearing from you and your colleagues.
With
kind regards,
Yours
sincerely,
(V.N.Sharma)
Chairman
Chairman
SPEEDPOST/e-mail
FORSE/Ch/FH/0514
July 26 2014
Prof. Saugat Roy,
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
58, Lodhi Estate,
New Delhi-110 003
Sub : National Minimum Pension (Guarantee) Bill, 2014, to include Retired Central Public Sector Employees
Hon’ble Sansad Saugat Roy Ji,
We congratulate you for supporting a forward looking ‘National Minimum Pension (Guarantee) Bill, 2014, for retired person from unorganised and private sectors’ in the ongoing session of Parliament which also envisages setting up of a National Pension Board. Our request is to include the Retired Employees of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) also because of the miserable condition they are living in as they do not have pension. Lowering of return on their saved deposits and ever increasing prices of essential commodities and higher expenses due to health care in old age is adding to the distressed living. You should not be surprised to know that some of our colleagues have committeed suicide because of financial stress. I would like to draw your kind attention to the details given in the following paragraphs. We represent more than one lakh Retired Employees of SAIL and their spouse who are facing miserable conditions in the twilight of their life simply because the Govt of India could not formulate a policy for them. Due to basic changes in post-retirement benefit policy for CPSE employees SAIL retirees are grouped as pre-2007 and post-2007 category retirees. This letter refers to the miserable living conditions of the former (pre-2007 retirees) for whom the 2ndPay Revision Committee for PSUs had recommended welfare benefits from a corpus created out of 1.5% of the Profit before Tax (PBT) from 1.1.2007. GOI issued necessary directions to all PSUs for its implementation. Oil companies and few other PSUs have already implemented the same whereas SAIL continues to ignore the Government order and leave us to face more and more miseries.
These pre-2007 joined service in early 50s and 60s and they are now in their 70s & 80s. There cannot be two opinions that the strong foundation laid by these pioneers in the formative years (1950s/60s) and the commitment, hard work & contributions made by these retirees under very hard times (as these plants were being established then in undeveloped/non-developed areas with no infrastructure or facilities either for work or family) contributed to make SAIL the pride of the nation as Maharatna today. SAIL has been earning profit since more than 15 years. It is now a Maharatna company by its virtue of financial strength & its contribution to development of the country in various aspects. Steel production & consumption are indicative parameters of the development of a country. The PSU owes some mercy to these Pioneer Very Senior Citizen Retirees. We approached various authorities incl. the Ministers of the UPA Govt for 5 years without any result. SAIL is not prepared to talk, leave alone implementing the Govt OMs. After the formation of NDA Govt in the Centre we wrote a few letters to the Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Minister of Steel but there is no response. They can be seen in http://sailex.blogspot.in We are writing this letter to you with a hope that (i) You will accede to our request in the subject matter and include the Retired CPSE employees in your National Minimum Pension (Guarantee) Bill, 2014, along with those from unorganized and private sectors and (ii) forward our request to the Prime Minister (copy attached) or Steel Minister and help us in arranging a meeting so that SAIL is appropriately advised to implement the Govt OMs in time bound manner. This will benefit more than a lakh of Retired Employees of SAIL and their spouse in the age group of 70s and 80s. The reason for requesting you to take extra trouble is because many of us are financially and health wise in miserable condition and so it will be difficult for our representatives to visit Delhi too frequently unless a programme is fixed. I hope you will kindly understand and appreciate our limits. However, our members/ representatives can see you at Kolkatta if they get your programme of visit in advance. We also request you to be kind enough to raise a question in Parliament, if possible, as to why SAIL has ignored the Govt OMs in regard to the post-retirement welfare benefits from a corpus created out of 1.5% of the Profit before Tax (PBT) from 1.1.2007. GOI issued necessary directions to all PSUs for its implementation which Oil Sector and other companies have implemented. We hope to have a kind hearted hearing from you and your colleagues.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
(V.N.Sharma)
Chairman
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