Annual Report
ANNUAL REPORT
PRESENTED AT THE 1st ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON THE 25TH
JUNE 2016
Distinguished Members,
I deem it a privilege to extend a
very hearty welcome to all of you to this 1st Annual General
Body Meeting of our Association and to
present my Annual Report covering the activities of our Association during the
period since starting of the Association dated 30/01/2015.The year that as gone by has been a period of great
expectations for all of us since the Seventh Central Pay commission has
submitted the report & the implementation of this report from
01/01/2016 is awaited from the Government
2. The
7th pay commission which was set up in Feb. 2014 was to submit its report in
August, 2016. However, at the intervention of the Government, the report was
further delayed and it ultimately reached the Government only in November,
2015.Their recommendations were to be effective from 01.01.2016. Except setting
up an empowered Committee of 13 Secretaries to make comparisons between the
recommendations of the Pay Commission & the comments from various
stakeholders on the 7th Pay Commission, the Government did not do
anything so far on the report. It is now more than seven months the report is
with the Government. The panel
Secretaries have submitted its
report. Presumably the Empowered Committees Report will just be carrying the
views expressed by all Stakeholders. They, in fact, may be expected to recommend the Govt. to
increase the Pay and Allowances. So, there will not be any modification in recommendations of 7th
pay commission in the Empowered Committees Report .
3.
As you are aware that as per para 10.1.67 The Commission recommended the
following pension formulation for civil employees including CAPF personnel, who
have retired before 01.01.2016:
(i) All the civilian personnel including CAPF who
retired prior to 01.01.2016 (expected date of implementation of the Seventh CPC
recommendations) shall first be fixed in
the Pay Matrix being recommended by this Commission, on the basis of the Pay
Band and Grade Pay at which they retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the matrix.
This amount shall be raised, to arrive
at the notional pay of the retiree, by adding the number of increments
he/she had earned in that level while in service, at the rate of three percent.
Fifty percent of the total amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension.
(ii) The second calculation to
be carried out is as follows. The pension, as had been fixed at the time of implementation of
the VI CPC recommendations, shall be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an
alternate value for the revised pension.
(iii) Pensioners may be given
the option of choosing whichever formulation is beneficial to them.
4.There was perhaps only one and only one positive
recommendation made by the 7th pay commission. That was to give some relief in
the pension entitlement of the past pensioners. The Government has now proposed
to reject that recommendation on the specious plea that the relevant records
required for the verification of the claim of the individual pensioners
especially those retired long time back may not be available with the
Government.
5. National Joint Council of Action has taken a decision
to go on “Indefinite Strike” from 06:00 a.m. on 11th July. 2016.In the charter
of demands part B Sl 13 it has been
demanded as under:-
13.Revise the pension and other retirement benefits as
under:-
(a) Parity between the past and present pensioners to
be brought about on the basis of the 7th CPC Recommendations with the modification that basis of computation to be the pay level of the post/grade/scale
of pay from which one retired ; whichever is beneficial.
(b) Pension to be 60% of the last pay drawn in the
case of all eligible persons who have completed the requisite number of years
of service.
(c) The family pension
to be 50% of the last pay drawn.
(d) Enhance the pension and family pension by 5 %
after every 5 years and 10% on attaining the age of 85 and 20% on attaining the
age of 90.
(e) Commuted value of pension to be restored after 10
years or attaining the age of 70, whichever is earlier. Gratuity calculation to
be on the basis of 25 days in the month as against 30 days as per the Gratuity
Act.
(f) Fixed medical allowance for those pensioners not
covered by CGHS and REHS to be increased to by ` 2000/-p.m.
(g) Provide one increment on the last day in service
if the concerned employee has completed
six months or more from the date of grant of last increment.
6. I shall now proceed
to narrate briefly what we were able to do during the period
Covered by the report.
(i)Meetings :-
The Association successfully completed the initial formalities in three sittings in the Conference Hall , Dadar IQ on the followings dates:
(i)Meetings :-
The Association successfully completed the initial formalities in three sittings in the Conference Hall , Dadar IQ on the followings dates:
30/01/2015 2. 04/03/2015 3. 18/04/2015
The issues discussed & the
decisions taken in these meetings have been circulated in News Letter 01, dated
June 2015 sent through email to all
members.
The fourth meeting was held on
10/10/2015 at 03.0 p.m. in the
Conference Hall Dadar IQ.
The issues discussed & the decisions taken
in this meetings have been circulated in the minutes of the meeting sent through
email to all members as well in News Letter
02 released on 06/04/2016.
Fifth meeting was held on
19/12/2015 at 11.30 a.m. in the
Conference Hall, Dadar IQ followed by
lunch.
During this meeting Col. K.
C.Mishra V. S.M. gave a presentation on
“Holistic Health care and wellness
“which was appreciated by all the members. This has been emailed to all the
members. This now can be viewed in the blog
Shri V.K.Khanna gave a talk on
“Opportunities to Retired Officers for
their gainful engagement”.
The Secretary spoke on Seventh
CPC recommendations
The minutes of the meeting sent
through email to all members as well in News Letter 02 released on 06/04/2016. This now can be
viewed in the blog
The Sixth meeting was held on
Wednesday the 06-04-2016 at Bungalow No.07/01, Sanjay Gandhi National Park,
Western Express Highway, Borivali East, Mumbai- 400066.
News Letter 02 dated 06/04/2016
was released by Shri R. Ganesan ex-Secretary to Govt. of India and Hon’ble
President of the Association.
Shri R Ganesan president of the
Association, in his key-note address, spoke on the topic of “Who am I? “, the
knowledge of which will bring lasting happiness in life, free of guilt and
hurt, as these two generally keep coming back again and again in one’s life as
age advances. A background paper on the subject has been separately e mailed to
those members who wanted to go into this topic in greater detail. This
now can be viewed in the blog
In between the talk, a visit
was arranged in the Tiger Safari Park for all members in a bus at 12.0 p.m.
Lunch was organized on the venue (Bungalow No.07/01, Sanjay Gandhi National
Park) at 13.30 p.m.
All members visited Kanheri
Caves in a separate transport organized by the Secretary IPROA at 02.45 p.m.
from the venue and returned back to the venue for hi-tea at 4.15 p.m. The cost
of this meeting was shared equally by
the attending members by contributing `600/-individually.
The minutes of the meeting sent
through email to all members. This now can be viewed in the blog.
(ii) News Letters
The First News Letter was
published in June 2015 covering the issues discussed & the decisions taken
in the first three meetings. This was circulated by email to all the members.
This is also now put in the News Letter 02 dated 06/04/2016 which was released
by Shri R. Ganesan ex-Secretary to Govt. of India and Hon’ble President of the
Association. To have more publicity of the Association 100 copies of News Letter 02 were printed at the cost of ` 12,600/-.
In this News letter in addition
to the minutes of the meetings the list of empanelled CGHS Hospitals has been
printed. 20 copies were distributed among the members attended the meeting held at Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Borivali on 06/04/2016 .40 copies were
mailed @ ` 5/- to Sr. Officers
of Directorate, Circle Office, Regional
Office Mumbai, Divisional Heads of Mumbai Region & Postmasters of all Head
Post Offices of Mumbai Region & Circle
Secretaries of Recognized Unions all by name with a personal letter to all signed by me. In the letters addressed to
the SSPOs it was requested to instruct Postmasters of HO s in their Division,
to furnish the particulars of Gazetted Officers who had retired/retiring &
their mobile Telephone Numbers along with their office of payment of Pension to
the undersigned. The Postmasters of HOs were also addressed to furnish the
particulars of Gazetted Officers who had retired/retiring & their mobile
Telephone Numbers along with their office of payment of Pension to the undersigned.
It is disheartening to inform that except Shri S.B.Vyhare APMG (Staff ) who had directed PMG (Mumbai Region ) & SSPOs Thane Central
Dn directing the Subordinate Office no response has been received so far
from any Head Office.
The remaining 40 copies are available
which are being distributed to the members who did not attend the meeting at
SGNP Borivali & attending the meeting today. This now can be viewed in the blog.
iii) Financial Position:--
All efforts are made to ensure that we
are able to curtail the expenditure within the subscription received from the members. I am glad to
inform that this is achieved as could be seen
from the statement of accounts
which are being presented by the Hon’ble treasurer of the Association.
However it is appealed to the members to pay their subscription in advance for
the year 2016-17 to enable us to plan further activities during this year.
(iv) Branch
Activities:-
As
per the decision taken in the
third meeting held on 18/04/2015 it was
decided that Col. K.C.Mishra V.S.M. will
be the Vice President and he will be
incharge of Pune Chapter of the Association. In Pune they have started an independent “Association of Retired
Gazetted Officers of Department of Posts Western Maharashtra “ They had
organized the outdoor picnics with the
contribution of attending members as
under:-
Lonavala
on 28/ 10/2015
Mahabaleshwar on 21/01/2016
Bhimashankar on 17/04/2016
Some of our members had also attended
these outdoor get togethers. The photos
can be viewed in the blog. Our maiden trial with the outdoor meeting at
Sanjay Gandhi National Park Borivali with the individual contribution of `
500/-was attended by only 20 members though arrangement was made for confirmed
25 members putting the attending members to bear extra `100/-individually, but
was enjoyed by all, if I am not mistaken since no adverse report has been
received by me from any attended Officer.
(v) Meeting with
Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra Circle
The Executive Members of the
Association consisting of Shri R.Ganesan President, Ms Humera Ahmed, Vice
President Shri U.P.C. Tauro Secretary & Shri W.S.Janbandhu, Organising
Secretary met Shri A.K.Dash Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra Circle Mumbai
in his chamber on Thursday the 4th February 2016 at 11a.m. Shri P.N.Ranjit Kumar, Postmaster General
Mumbai Region & Shri Sayeed Rashid, Director of Postal Services (HQ) were
also present.
Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra
Circle Mumbai was informed that the retired Officers of India Posts have
recently formed an Association in Maharashtra Circle Good wishes and support of
CPMG, Maharashtra & Goa was sought to serve the community of retired
officers Posts in our circle. He was also apprised of our need to approach the
Head Offices of Mumbai Region to seek particulars of Officers who had
retired/retiring
Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra
Circle Mumbai was kind enough to receive us cordially. He assured us of all
help and support to the Association. He has also permitted the Association to
use the Auditorium at Mumbai GPO Annex Building as well as Dadar IQ for the
meetings of the Association
Shri P.N.Ranjit Kumar, Postmaster
General Mumbai Region has also assured to help the Association to get the
particulars of Officers who had retired/retiring from the Head Offices of
Mumbai Region. The details are given in News Letter 2 & This now can be
viewed in the blog.
(vi). What’s App Group
As decided in the meeting regarding code
for postings on IPROA what’s app Group a
separate group with the caption “ MH Circle
Postal Veterans “ has been opened for posting messages. It is a pleasure
to inform all that as on date there are 66 Officers of Maharashtra Circle who
are participating including 42 members of IPROA .Daily more than 100
messages are being posted by the active Members.
vii) Blog
As decided in the last
meeting we have been successful in
designing our Blog with the help of
Shri Kiran Reddy Inspector of Post Offices as the charges for the Website were
very high by payment of requisite fee for blog though it was decided to create
free in the last meeting since payment
was to be made for the purchase of the domain. The Blog will be launched
shortly.
7 I will now proceed
to present some of the important issues before us.
(i)
Registration
As the membership is increasing we may
perhaps go for Registration of the Association at the Registrar of Societies
Maharashtra.
(ii)
Expansion
As almost all the Retired Gazetted
Officers staying in Mumbai have been contacted, we may perhaps enroll the willing Retired Gazetted Officers of Maharashtra Circle as members of the
Association.
Conclusion
Before concluding I want to
record my gratitude to all the executive members & all the members of the
Association who have greatly supported & helped me in the task of running
the Association and I am confident that with the support of you all, the
Association will scale greater heights.
Thanking You,
Yours
Sincerely
Tauro U.P.C
Secretary.
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