By e-mail: chairman.sail@sail.in
FORSE/SAIL-C/-0825
Sept 04, 2025
To
Sri Amarendu Prakash,
Chairman and Managing Director,
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).
Ref: FORSE letter No. FORSE/SAIL-C/0625 dated March 04, 2025 (https://sailex.blogspot.com/2025/03/issue-of-rpfcs-rejecting-pohw.html)
Dear Sir,
Further to our above referred letter on the subject issue we would like to bring to your kind information that there appears to be no change in the position of Regional EPFOs wrt the amendment in the SAIL Units PF Trust Rules. As a result, the rejected applications for Higher Pension of large number of SAIL Retirees from ASP, BSP, CO, CMO, ISP, SSP, VISP, eligible for Higher Pension as per Supreme Court order dt 04/11/2022 stands still as rejected. We are not aware if SAIL has issued advisories to its Unit PF Trusts to go to the courts of law for its resolution. But to the best of my knowledge only DSP management has gone for litigation and so have done a few retirees’ groups of Salem, Bhadrawati and Bhilai Steel Plants.
In the meantime, in a similar matter as ours, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has issued an Order on 02/09/2025 against the order of EPFO dated 06.02.2025 wherein the joint option request submitted by the employees to avail the benefits of higher pension have been rejected primarily relying upon the Trust Rules applicable to the exempted organisation namely BHEL,Trichy (copy attached).
We request you to kindly act fast and do the needful even if it requires going centrally or unit-wise for litigation to resolve the issue so that SAIL eligible Pensioners do not suffer.
With kind regards,
Yours faithfully,
For & on behalf of Federation of Retired SAIL Employees
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(V.N.Sharma) Chairman |
(Ram Agar Singh) General Secretary |
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