By e-mail: chairman.sail@sail.in
FORSE/SAIL-C/-0625
March 04, 2025
To
Sri Amarendu Prakash,
Chairman,
Steel Authority of India Ltd,
Ispat Bhavan, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi – 110 003.
Sub: Request to take up the issue of RPFCs rejecting Applications for PoHW due to inappropriate amendment in Trust Rules with EPFO (HQ).
Dear Sir,
This is to bring to your kind notice that a good many Regional EPFO Offices have rejected applications for Higher Pension of large number of SAIL Retires, eligible for Higher Pension as per Supreme Court order dt 04/11/2022,. The modus operandi of each one has been a bit different for different Regional EPFO offices but by and large they have asked for concerned SAIL unit PF Trust rules and whether appropriate amendments were made to deposit higher amount to make their members eligible for higher pension. Not finding the answer satisfactory they have rejected hundreds of applications in one go. As per the data received, status of PoHW in SAIL units is as follows.-
1. BSP - Rejected & litigated
2. SSP - Rejected & litigated
3. VISL - Rejected
4. CMO - Rejected
5. Corp. Office - Rejected
6. DSP - Accepted & Rejected now.
7. ISP - Accepted but likely to be Rejected.
8. BSL - Accepted but RPPOs awaited.
9. RSP - Accepted but RPPOs awaited.
10. Ranchi Units - Accepted but RPPOs awaited.
11. SRU - Accepted but RPPOs awaited. But SRU Bhilai - Rejected.
12. RMD - Accepted but RPPOs awaited.
The defect in PF rules needs to be addressed and corrected so that eligible SAIL Pensioners do not suffer. Since it is the responsibility of SAIL PF Trusts to deal with the PF and Pension Rules we request SAIL to kindly take up the issue formally with CPFC to get the situation corrected.
We request you to kindly depute a team of concerned SAIL Directors and Law Officers to interact with CPFC and his concerned Officers to resolve the issue so that SAIL eligible Pensioners do not suffer. Alternative, at the end, can also be SAIL going through litigation.
With kind regards,
Yours faithfully,
For and on behalf of Federation of Retired SAIL Employees
Dr V N Sharma Chairman
Ram Agar Singh General Secretary
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