Brief 27th SCOVA Meeting held on 13.10.015. By SM Kanjilal Member Managing Committee Member BPS
N F RAILWAY PENSIONERS’ ASSOCIATION
Head Office : Pension Bhavan , Rest Camp, Pandu,Guwahati
– 781012
Registered No. 1464 ( Under Societies Act XXI of 1960
)
STANDING MEMBER,SCOVA
Identified by Ministry of Pension , Govt OF India
Affiliated to
Bharat Pensioner Samaj, New Delhi
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No.
NFRPA/BPS/2015 Date: 16-10-2015
To
The
Secretary General
BPS,New
Delhi
Sub
: Brief of 27th SCOVA Meeting
The 27th meeting of SCOVA was held at Vigyan Bhawan on
13th Oct,15 at 11 hrs. The meeting was Chaired by Dr. Jitendra Singh , the Uninon
Minister of State(IndependentCharge) for DoNER,Public Grievances & Pension,
Atomic Energy and Space . Mr. Harjit
Singh ,Joint Secretary ,(P&PW) submitted his welcome address to the house .
After that all the Delegates attended the meeting introduced themselves, while
as per programme Introductory remarks were placed by Secretary(P&PW).Later
Hon’ble MOS(PP), Chairman SCOVA, addressed the meeting. He said that retired
employees should become torch bearers of Start-up-India, Stand-up India
initiative. Addressing the meeting, he called upon the pensioners to involve
their vast experience and resources to assume the role of job creators. He said
that the pendency without reason has to be taken care of completely. Sri
Devendra Choudhury, Secretary DOP&PW beside others stated that department
of P&PW has set a deadline of one months time during which backlog of 2200
pending pension grievances will be settled. He referred several welfare
projects of GOI. It is reported that 19 Pensioners Association registered
themselves under the initiative Sankalp.After his deliberation discussion was
held on ATR on the points raised in the 26th Meeting of SCOVA and on Fresh
Agenda items. The brief of the discussions appended below.
ATR of the 26th Meeting of
SCOVA:
Item 1. Sl. No.1 of ATR, Status of issue
revised PPO : On item (a),(b) and (c) no comments from the representatives of
the Pensioners Association. However, on Ministry of Railways , the figure shown
is confusing and promptly brought to the notice of the Chairman by the
representative of NFRPA. He questioned when it is recorded in 6th CPC report that the
total numbers of railway pensioners prior to 2006 was more than 10 lacs how the
total revised cases of railway pensioners can be 1,10,543. No positive reply
was there from official side. As regards the problems of dispatch of revised PPO
to the pensioners address for not having the present address,the suggestion of
NFRPA to handover the PPO to the pensioners through PDA had been taken into
consideration.
Item 2 Sl.No. 3 of ATR Health Insurance :
No comments
Item 3 Sl.No. 5 of ATR : Special Family
Pension : Concerned Defence Pensioners Association raised some queries and
questioned which have been discussed and noted.
Iem 4 ,5,6
: Nothing specific discussed, except some grievances on Medical issues.
Item 7 Sl.No.9 of ATR : On the benefit of
Rs. 4600 GP. It is stated that the concerned file is still pending with
Department of Expenditure. On being urged to fix a time line by the
representative of NFRPA,Guwahati,Assam, it is stated that within 10 days the
file will be returned with comments to concerned Department.
Item 8 to 16 issues related to
BSNL,Ministry of Health, DOP&PW etc have breen dicussed by the concerned
reprentatives of the Pensioners Associations.
On Fresh Agenda of 27th Meeting.
1. On
issue of acknowledgement to pensioners submitting life Certificate : CPAO
formulated a format of Life Certificate which had been supplied to the Delegates
and stated that the format will also be available in the wwebsite of CPAO.
2. Extension
of the benefits of OM dated 28.01.13 less than 33 years : Stated that the
matter is subjudiced.
3. On
health issues (27.3,27.4) : On CGHS facilities various discussion were held .
On RELHS issue NFRPA has proposed to include SMART CARD issue in the agenda
which have not been taken. NFRPA representative raised the issue of SMART CARD.
But the representative of official side of Railways failed to give any suitable
reply.
4. On
illegal recovery of pension vis a vis reduction of pension : The matter has
been refered to DoPT on 07.06.15. DoPT informed on 30.06.15 that the matter is
under consideration especially on the issues of impermissible-ness of recovery
based on the letter of OM dated 06.02.14 and recent SC Judgments. It is stated
that order may be issued for implementation of the guide lines prescribed by
Hon’ble SC. On being insisted by the representatives of NFRPA, it is stated
that before 27th Oct,15 the order will be issued. NFRPA also
requested to review the issue of reduction of pension in fixing the Minimum
Pension which has been done in
misinterpreting the contents of
the 6th CPC Resolutions and OM No. dated 1.9.2008 and 28.1.13respectively,
wherein it is categorically stated that minimum pension in no case should be
less than 50 % of the minimum pay of the pre-revised scale of the corresponding
scale from which pensioner had retired.
5. On
implementation of circular of P&PW(A) No. dt 30.7.15 it is directed that
revision of pension in respect of all the pending cases must be completed by
concerned Dept. by 16.10.15
6. On
facility for online railway booking : NFRPA representative requested to extend
the facility to Pass holders also so that the Retired Rly Pensioners can also
avail this facility.
S.M.Kanjilal
General Secretary(A)
SCOVA Member from NFRPA & Managing Committee Member BPS
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