Rlys draws flak for not revising its pension list: The Indian Express
Shoddy handling of Railways’ burgeoning pension rolls whose burden has touched Rs 22,000 crore has drawn flak from the pension ministry. It has now asked the Railways to get its act together by September. The national carrier has more than 12 lakh pensioners.
In a recent meeting of the Standing Committee on Voluntary Agencies that handles pension issues of the Centre, V Narayanasamy, MoS for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, criticised the Railways for failing to revise its pension list as per Sixth Pay Commission of 2006, sources said.
The absence of comprehensive records has led to instances where banks, by mistake, had either overpaid or underpaid the pensioners. The Railway Board has asked railway zones to do spot-checking at banks and recover overpaid amounts. Such checkings have revealed that there are many discrepancies across India.
The Railways admits that close to 52 per cent pension orders are yet to be revised. In the absence of revised rolls, it has to give arrears to its pensioners even in cases where pensions have started well after 2006. This has become a burden for its coffers. The board officials have told the zones that “such cases were unacceptable”.
“We have to cut a sorry figure in these meetings as we were found lacking in our moral and administrative responsibility towards old pensioners,” the Railway Board has admitted to zonal railways.
The previous deadline to complete revision of pension rolls was March 31. Officials say the new deadline too might not be met. Mounting staff costs, including pension, is considered the heaviest burden on railway finances, especially in the wake of the Sixth Pay Commission. The estimated additional outgo is around Rs 73,000 crore in five years. Unlike other ministries, the Railways has to fend for itself to foot the huge costs.
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RESPECTED PM SIR
1; UPA II HAS BEEN UNKIND & UNCONCERNED TO ARMED FORCES. THE CASE WAS UNDULY DENIED BY GOVT. NOW COURT HAS GIVEN DECISION TO PAY WHICH SHOWS GOVT WAS WRONG. THE AMOUNT IS TO BE PAID WEF 24/9/2012 INTEREST WEF 1/1/2013 @ 9%INTEREST
BUT ACTUALLY IT SHOULD BE PAID WEF 1/1/2006.
HOPE UPA II WILL PAY WEF 1/1/2006 ELSE IT WILLAMOUNT TO TAKING BREAD FROM MOUTH OFOLD AILING PENSIONERS & WIDOWS. WHICH NO ONE WILL TOLERATE ,EVEN IF U TAKE FOOD
FROM ANIMAL MOUTH ,THE ANIMAL WILL BITE BACK. THUS IN CASE UPA II WANTS VOTES OF FORCES[MONEY EARNED BY BLOOD] THEN GIVE THEM THEIR DUE WEF 1/1/2006. [ LOOTERS ARE LOOTING CRORES ALMOST WEEKLY IN NEWS] KINDLY PAY THE FOLLOWING ALSO ELSE THE VALUABLE VOTES MAY VANISH
2]NFU STATUS: ARMY HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN NFU STATUS YET.KINDLY DO AT THE EARLIEST WEF 1/1/2006
A]. THE BULK OF ARMY OFFICER RETIRES IN Lt COL RANK & BELOW.
SO IDEALLY THEY SHOULD BE IN SUPER TIME SCALE.
B]COL [SELECTION GRADE] SHOULD BE ABOVE SUPER TIME SCALE,
SO IS BRIG, BUT IN REALITY IT IS NOT SO. THEY ARE BEING PAID DEGRADED
PAY & PENSION
C]Colonel has been equated with Non-Functional Selection Grade (NFSG). The rank of a
DIG who was till date between a Lt Colonel and a Colonel is now officially equal to a
Brigadier. Both are now on a Grade Pay of Rs 8900
D]IT IS WORTH MENTIONING THAT POLICE HAS GONE ONE RANK UP
ALREADY DURING COAS MALHOTRA TIME. HE DID HIS BEST TO REVERSE
POLICE ACTION, BUT COULD NOT DO SO & DID NOT UPGRADE RANK OF HIS FORCES.NOW FURTHER DEGRADATION
E]WHERE IS REWARD TO COL/BRIG WHO WORKED HARD FOR
PROMOTION & ORGANISATIONAL GROWTH, ALL THEIR LIFE
COL/BRIG SHOULD BE PLACED IN HAG SELECTION GRADE
COL/BRIG IS IN FORE FRONT DURING PEACE/WAR AND
WITH DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH MEN.COL/BRIG IS A KING PIN BETWEEN TROOPS & HIGHER UPS.
3] DA SHOULD NOT BE TAXED: IT IS UNJUSTIFIED TO TAX DA. BY TAXING THE DA, EMPLOYEES ARE DENIED THEIR LEGITIMATE RIGHT TO FIGHT
INFLATION AS A PIE IS TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR PLATE BY INCOME TAX.
IT WAS NOT BEING TAXED FOR SIX DECADES, BUT SMART EX FM PC HAS TAXED THE DA AT HIS OWN WISDOM & NO WHEN RESISTED/CONTESTED.KINDLY DONOT TAX DA.
4. MERGER OF DA ON ATTAINING DA SLAB OF 50 % IS NOT DONE IN 6 CPC: IT WAS IN 5th CPC, BUT AN OMMISSION HAS TAKEN PLACE & NEEDS CORRECTION. DA IS MOTHER OF ALL ALLOWANCES. AS SERVING PERSONALS OTHER ALLOWANCES HAVE BEEN ENHANCED ON BASIS OF DA AT 50% BY 25% THAN HOW CAN YOU FORGET MERGING DA IN PAY/PENSION AS DP.[BABU FORGOT TO MENTION & CREATED MESS FOR ALL]
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May 8 ,2013