Please click on either of these two SAIL EPS 95 links:
http://223.31.174.136/epfo_sail/login.aspx,
http://10.139.0.30/epfo_sail/login.aspx
and proceed.
By e-mail
FORSE/SAIL-C/0323
03/02/2023
To
Ms Soma Mondal,
Chairperson,
Steel Authority of India Ltd,
Ispat Bhavan, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi – 110 003.
Sub: Request to expedite submission
of Joint option by all SAIL EPS 95 pensioners for Higher Pension.
Ref: FORSE letter No. FORSE/SAIL-C/2322 dated Dec 30, 2022 & Jan 09, 2023
and No. FORSE/SAIL-C/0223 dated
01/02/2023
Madam,
This is to bring to your kind information
that in spite of our various communications, as given in the above references,
on the subject issue, SAIL appears to be going slow in providing link with
uploaded data for submission of joint option by all the SAIL EPS 95
Pensioners.
A good number of
Exempted Establishment employers esp. the PSUs have circulated instructions
alongwith appropriate Joint option Forms. Attached herewith in email page are
the three circulars - from HMT, BHEL & LIC - for Joint option declaration
by their respective EPS 95 pensioners. HMT & BHEL have fixed 10th
Feb 2023 for submission of declaration to their respective HR departments which
will forward the same after scrutiny etc to EPFO by 20th Feb 2023. LIC
has fixed 15th Feb 2023.
Silence of
SAIL, on this score, is deafening to the old-aged pensioners as it is not clear
when they will be allowed to submit options and when it will be scrutinized / verified
by SAIL units. No doubt that this may cause further delay in their landing in EPFO
offices in the last minute, causing tension to SAIL Pensioners.
In view of
the time constraint, I request you to kindly advise the concerned SAIL
personnel/ Nodal Officers to do the needful to expedite the submission of Joint
option by all SAIL EPS 95 pensioners for Higher Pension.
With thanks
and kind regards,
Yours faithfully,
For & on behalf of Federation of
Retired SAIL Employees
|
(V.N.Sharma)
Chairman
|
(Ram Agar Singh)
General Secretary
|
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By e-mail
FORSE/SAIL-C/0223
01/02/2023
To
Ms Soma Mondal,
Chairperson,
Steel Authority of India Ltd,
Ispat Bhavan, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi – 110 003.
Sub: Request to allow all EPS 95 SAIL
(1) pre-01/09/2014 EPS 95 & (2) post- 31/08/2014 Pensioners to submit Joint
option for Higher Pension.
Madam,
This is to bring to your kind notice that when
Govt/ EPFO provided opportunity to employees to submit joint option for full
pension, SAIL/ SAIL Unit PF Trusts failed to inform and guide the employees and
the pensioners to take the benefit of the amended scheme. This resulted in long
time loss of full/ higher pension under EPS 95 to serving and retired employees
of SAIL. It will also be interesting to note that our sister company RINL
did a good publicity on this count, got the joint option submitted by large
number of the Employees/ Pensioners which got ultimately rejected by EPFO
Visakhapatnam. But today they are in a position to reap the benefits of the
Supreme Court Order dated 04th Nov 2022.
As a follow
up of the above, we request you to kindly take this up with EPFO and, if need
be, for a legal recourse in the Supreme Court to get the Supreme Court order
dated 04th Nov 2022 amended to remove cutoff date and permit all
desirous pensioners to submit joint option. SAIL may formally/ informally take
lead in this matter and take other CPSE Exempted Establishments along for
success of this joint move.
We would also like to inform that a good number of
CPSE Exempted Establishments viz. HPCL, KUDRAMUKH (KIOCL), STC, etc have
allowed their post- 31/08/2014 EPS 95 pensioners to submit joint option. Madras
High Court in its order dated 25/01/2023 (Copy of MHC order attached) has
also ordered accordingly.
In view of
the above we request you to kindly issue circular to all retirees covered under
EPF Pension Scheme to exercise joint option prior to 03.03.2023 without waiting
for EPFO in order to avoid any eleventh-hour rush and tension to senior
citizens.
With thanks
and kind regards,
Yours faithfully,
For & on behalf of Federation of
Retired SAIL Employees
|
(V.N.Sharma)
Chairman
|
(Ram Agar Singh)
General Secretary
|
