बुधवार, 7 अक्तूबर 2020

Minutes of the Google Cloud Meeting of FORSE Apex Council held on 27th September



Federation of Retired SAIL Employees

(A Forum for the welfare of the Retired Employees of SAIL)

Regd Office: Abasar Bhawan, Koel Nagar, Rourkela-769014

Sept 29, 2020

Members present: As in the annexed list

2. Following the exchange of pleasantries and demonstration of thrill by Members for meeting in the Cloud, Chairman called the meeting to order and welcomed all the members in the 3rd Cloud FAC meeting and appreciated them for their prompt participation. He gave a brief of what all has transpired during the intervening period and invited unit-wise members to provide unit-wise updates of developments in their respective units. Having regard to the seriousness of sale/ privatisation of VISP and Salem Steel Plant Chairman added this issue in the Agenda for discussion and necessary action.

Members’ views revolved generally around

(i)               Discriminatory continued illegal action by SAIL in OPD coverage of Rs 48000/- per head per year in Corp office dispensary and Rs 4000/- or Rs.8000/- as he case may be in other Unit Hospitals/Dispensary/ locations.

(ii)             Amending/ enlarging the Exclusion list in SAIL Mediclaim Scheme as an afterthought post the wide circulation of signed documents to members as a sign of its implementation.  

(iii)          half-hearted implementation of SAIL Pension Scheme with wrong data of deduction in all Units,

(iv)          Not up-to-the mark Healthcare through SAIL Mediclaim Scheme- the issues of inordinate delays and inappropriate settlement of Bills by MDIndia and the Insurance Company incl. for those pending for earlier years too were discussed.

(v)             Payment of Rs 5000/- per month as pension/ ex-gratia for all the SAIL Retirees who are not covered by SAIL Pension Scheme,

(vi)          Full salary pension scheme under EPS-95.

After detailed delebrations on the above issues the folowing decisions were arrived at by consensus.

11.  A letter to be written to Union Minister of Steel about the discrimination and illegal activity by SAIL as in para (i) and (ii) above asking him to advise SAIL to conduct an enquiry and correct the wrong-doings.

If appropriate and satisfactory results are not visible in ten days thereafter, Chairman, FORSE will write to about a dozen Floor leaders in Parliament to take up these issues formally with the Union Steel Minister on our behalf.

2.    2. Unit Office bearers to play a proactive role by consistently writing (every month) to the Directors/ CEOs/ HoPs / Nodal Officers of their Unit on issues arising out of SAIL Pension Scheme, SAIL Mediclaim Scheme, House leasing or licensing and other local issues & grievances and interact with them in formal meetings. (Examples can be Bokaro)

3.    3 Individual mediclaim cases should be

v dealt initially and all though by the Retiree himself on his own email id with MDIndia and provide documents or clarifications etc asked for by the TPA in the trail mail without changing the subject line.

v If not settled within the stipulated period, Retirees may forward his complain to SAIL Chairman & DP, EDP & GMP in C.O. with copies to Unit Associations and ask for help.

v If it fails even thereafter, the concerned Unit Association may forward the trail mail with their observation to forsesail@gmail.com.

v For other Health related issues like Hospitalisations etc Retirees may contact Unit Hospital management (if the cae is there), MDI, GMP SAIL (i/c SMSRE etc) and finally their respective Association for help.

4.   4. On the subject of our demand of Rs 5000/ as pension per month as in para (v) above, Chairman, FORSE, referring to his earlier communications to PM, FM, Steel Minister, Social welfare Minister etc, to write to about 20 vocal MPs and floor leaders, party leaders etc to persuade the PM, FM, DPE etc to advise SAIL to pay such amount of Rs5000/- per month as pension/ ex-gratia who are not covered by SAIL Pension Scheme.

FAC Members are to provide the list of vocal & strong MPs of their constituency and the State urgently.

5.    5Regarding sale/privatisation of VISP and Salem Steel Plant it was decided to advise the Office bearers of the concerned Unit to work out some agitational action plan with local people, Unions, SEFI Units, and political parties and initiate action and represent to Govt to stop. FORSE will act on the basis of updates provided by VISP & Salem.

6.    6. On the subject of non-implementation of SAIL Pension Scheme in Salem, Office bearers were asked to provide the data and reasons for this with copies of correspondence with SSP or SAIL, if any.

7.    7. Chairman informed that EPS-95 case is scheduled for hearing only the Review Petitions filed by GOI and EPFO on 16th October 2020. Our case will be heard only after a final Court ruling is given on this Review Petition.

8.    8. About a month and half later a letter will be sent to Minister of Steel with detailed information comprising comprehensive comparisions of Mediclaim Schemes in RINL, SAIL and Oil companies and for similar Schemes in SAIL.

After Chairman’s concluding remarks, Sri Ram Agar Singh, Gen. Secretary proposed a vote of thanks to Chairman and all the members present for the successful conduct and decision making in the meeting.

Meeting ended with Members from all the Units echoing the sentiments of GS in appreciating the Chairman FORSE for conducting this Cloud meeting and thanked him profusely for the same.

Approved by Chairman

(Ram Agar Singh(

 Gen Secretary

 

Annexure -I

List of participants

S/Sri

S.No.

Name

Unit Association

1.

Abhay Kr Das

Rourkela

2.

P. Samal

--Do--

3.

Sharad Salvi

Mumbai

4.

T.K.Dutta

Durgapur

5.

Joga Rao

Hyderabad

6.

Prabhuraj

---Do---

7.

Arabinda Mitra

Burnpur

8.

Ashoke Thakur

---Do---

9.

H.K.Lal

Bokaro

10.

Uday Sharma

---Do---

11.

Ram Agar Singh

---Do---

12.

J.S.Nagabhushan

Bhadravati

13.

Manjunath

---Do---

14

S.K.Ghosh

Kolkata

15

Debasish Chaudhari

---Do---

16.

Jayant Kundu

---Do---

17.

Md Hdish

Bhilai

18.

Peter Raj

Salem

19.

Dr V N Sharma

Ranchi

20.

D.K. Thakur

---Do---


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