By
e-mail
FORSE/SAIL-C/0423
13/02/2023
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 pre-01/09/2014 EPS 95 Pensioners to submit Joint option for
Higher Pension.
Ref: Our letter Nos. FORSE/SAIL-C/0223
dated 01/02/2023 & FORSE/SAIL- C/0323 dated 03/02/2023
Madam,
In continuation of our above referred letters this is to bring to your kind
information that SAIL website for EPS 95 defines Eligibility for submission for JOINT OPTION FORM as
follows:
1.
Employees who are on the rolls of the Company
2.
Ex-employees who have attained the age of 58 years on or
after 01-Sep-2014
Thus, ignoring our serious and sincere request to you, SAIL has
permitted only the post-31/08/2014 pensioners to fill up the Joint
option form and, by this action, SAIL has debarred the pre-01/09/2014
pensioners from getting Higher Pension forever.
As we wrote in our previous letters “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.”
Further to rectify the situation and getting justice to
the SAIL pensioners we requested 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.”
Considering the above facts, we urge you to be kindly
sympathetic and reasonable to the cause of pre-01/09/2014 pensioners pathetic
financial condition, without an assured back up, and allow them to submit
the Joint Option forms and parallelly initiate necessary long-term action in
this matter, if need be, in association with other CPSE Exempted Establishments.
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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