रविवार, 5 फ़रवरी 2023

Correspondence with SAIL re EPS and SAIL Circular 040223

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

 

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