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Friday, October 23, 2020
HISTORICAL D R SLABS FOR EACH GROUP OF PENSIONERS
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Re: Deprivation of additional qualifying service in the context of re-employed Ex-Servicemen in LIC of India in terms of Rule-27 of LIC of India (Employees) Pension Rules, 1995.
The Chairman,
LIC of India, Central Office
Yogakshema, Jeevan Bima Marg, MUMBAI : 400021
Dear Sir,
Re: Deprivation of Additional Qualifying Service in the context of
Re-employed Ex-servicemen in Life Insurance Corporation of India
in terms of Rule-27 of Life Insurance Corporation of India (Employees)
Pension Rules, 1995 .
Please find here with attached the representation by Shri.Prabir Kumar Mazumder, Kolkata who also happens to be one of our All India Organising Secretaries. His said representation is equally relevant/applicable to all the In-Service employees who are Ex-servicemen (and who are going to retire in future) and who since retired from LIC who were re-employed in LIC as Ex-servicemen.
* In exercise of the powers conferred to the Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation of India under Rule 55 of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (Employees) Pension Rules 1995 (hereinafter referred to as 'Pension Rules'), your good self issued instructions for implementation of Life Insurance Corporation of India (Employees) Pension (Amendment) Rules, 2019 which have been gazetted vide Government of India Gazette Notification No. D L- 33004/99 & 268 dated 23.04.2019.
Deprivation of additional qualifying service in the context of re-employed Ex-Servicemen in LIC of India in terms of Rule-27 of LIC of India (Employees) Pension Rules, 1995.
NATIONAL ORGANISATION OF INSURANCE PENSIONERS
Regn No.PN 4769 (Regd under Indian T U Act, 1926)
(Affiliated to Bharateeya Mazdoor Sangh)
BMS Office, Vishwakarma Bhavan, 185, Shaniwar Peth, Pune 411030. Tel.: 020-24454040
President: Dr. S. B. Sharan
Working President: S. G. Elangadi General Secretary: Vilas V.Purkar
Mob No: 09868358161 Mob No: 08762932477 Mob No: 09922166599
Date: 14-10-2020
To,
The Chairman,
LIC of India, Central Office,
Yogakshema, MUMBAI
Dear Sir,
Re: Deprivation of additional qualifying service in the context of re-employed Ex-Servicemen in LIC of India in terms of Rule-27 of LIC of India (Employees) Pension Rules, 1995.
This is further to our letter dtd. 23-01-2020 regarding the captioned subject. The said letter is attached
here with for your ready reference. We regret to note that till date no action appears to have been
initiated from the ER/Personnel Dept in this regard.
For Ex-Servicemen , the service in Armed forces is not counted to add to the qualifying service as per
Rule 27 of LIC of India (Employees) Pension Rules, 1995, though due weightage is given for increasing
the age at entry. Resultantly, they will not get the full pension since they don’t have 33 years of
qualifying service. It is a gross injustice to these heroes who have safeguarded our borders and fought
for the nation.
Monday, October 12, 2020
LETTER TO NIA & CO LIC from Sri. C. T. JOSHI
From : C T JOSHI,
Central Committee Member &
Chairman of MediClaim Assistance Committee,
NOIP (BMS).
To,
Sri Sanjay Paigankar,
Sr. Divisional Manager,
Divisional Office, Code: 120700,
New India Assurance Co., Ltd.,
MUMBAI.
Respected Sir,
Re : Medi Claim Cases – settled and non Settled – Covid 19 and other Claims.
At the outset I would like to introduce myself. The National Organisation of Insurance Pensioners' affiliatedto BMS has formed a Committee to help and guide gullible claimants in proper settlement of their Medi Claim dues. I have been made the Chairman of that Committee. In that capacity I am writing to you this letter as per the decision taken in the Video Conference meeting held of the Committee yesterday, on 7th October, 2020.
I am referring to you the following THREE cases, of which TWO are Covid 19 cases and ONE is non-Covid case which is pending settlement. Apart from these THREE cases I am also pointing out few earlier cases, where the TPAs have disallowed certain items, which are infact payable as per Policy Document.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
General Secretary Report
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Letter to FINANCE MINISTER FINANCE MINISTER
BHARATIYA MAZDOOR SANGH
Dattopant Thengadi Bhawan, 27, Deendayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi-110002
Tel:- 011 23222654 Fax: 91-11-23212648 Website: www.bms.org.in E-mail : bmsdtb@gmail.com
No. BMS/C-6/236/2020 Date: 07-10-2020
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman ji,
Honourable Minister for Finance,
Govt of India, North Block,
New Delhi
Respected Madam,
Sub: Pending issues of LIC’s Pensioners
Please Refer to our letters dated 15-6-2019, 02-01-2020 & 19-07-2020 regarding the subject. We are sorry to note that there is no response from your Ministry. Since the said matters are pending for satisfactory resolution for years, we request your personal intervention in the matter. We iterate the issues here below for your ready reference.
(1) One more option for pension-
(A) We profusely thank you and your Ministry officials for having granted one more final option to opt for the Pension Scheme of 1995 to LIC employees/Retirees who were PF optees. But the notification allowed the option to only those persons who were in the services of the Corporation as on 28-06-1995. There are less than 100 peculiar cases of Engineers recruited as Direct Recruits in the cadre of Superintending Engineers in 1996 and a few Ex-Servicemen recruited in 1996-1997. Though they were eligible by default to be covered under Pension Rules 1995, option for Pension/PF was insisted to them and by ignorance of the default provisions, they opted for PF. Hence, we request you to allow such unfortunate engineers/employees to opt for pension now. We learn that LIC has referred the matter to the DFS recommending these cases to be considered. We request your kind approval since the number of such persons may be less than 100 in the entire country.
(B) There are certain cases where employees opted for VRS (PF optees) for domestic problems
(Not going for greener pastures).Though they had completed more than 20 yrs of service (in some cases more than 30 yrs of service) their retirement was treated as resignation but not as VRS;
They were denied the pension option due to the outdated provision that they had not completed 55 yrs of their age on the date of such retirement. It is a gross injustice to them, as the outdated provision of LIC of India (Employee's) Staff Regulations, 1960 was invoked in their case to deny VRS to them. We request you to allow such retirees also to opt for pension now.
(2) Pending issues of pensioners- The following issues are pending for decades.
(A) Up gradation of Basic Pension with every wage revision of in-service employees- The employees who have retired right from 1995 are getting the same old basic pension fixed at the time of their retirement and they are getting pittance compared to the employees retired after the latest wage revision of 2012 (2017 wage revision is still pending) creating the great discrimination/anomaly. We request for approval of up gradation at par with Central Govt Pensioners on OROP basis or at least on the pattern of RBI pensioners/NABARD pensioners who were granted up gradation in 2019 & 2020 respectively.
(B) Increased Family Pension- LIC family pensioners are getting roughly about 15% of last basic pay drawn by their deceased spouse, as per the Pension Rules, 1995, which is very meagre amount and it is difficult to sustain the livelihood and medical expenses. RBI family pensioners have been getting 30% of last basic drawn and so is the case with Central Govt pensioners. Now IBA has agreed to grant 30% of last pay drawn as Family Pension without any ceiling subject to approval from your end.
Hence we appeal to you to upgrade the family pension to at least 30% of last basic pay drawn.
© Computation of Basic Pension- Presently the basic pension is computed as 50% of last 10 months’ average basic pay immediately prior to the date of retirement which has created the greatest anomaly to those who retire during the intervening period of wage revision. Thousands of pensioners are severely affected by this erroneous provision. The said anomaly has been set right in case of Central Govt pensioners during the 5th Pay Commission. Hence we appeal for amending the pension rules as “50% of last 10 months’ average basic pay or 50% of last basic pay at the time of retirement, whichever is favourable to the retiree”. And also request to reopen and revise the basic pension of all the affected pensioners by this anomaly during the previous wage revisions.
(D) Senior pensioners aged 80 years and above- Senior Central Govt pensioners/Family pensioners aged 80 and above are getting 20% increase in basic pension every five years at 80,85,….. up to 100 age. We request to grant this increased pension to those LIC pensioners/family pensioners who are 80 and above.
We understand that the LIC management has recommended the improvements requested by us in respect of (B), (C) & (D) above. Accordingly we implore upon your personal intervention in the matter and take necessary action in amending the LIC Pension Rules, 1995.
We fervently hope for your early action in the matter, With regards!
Yours Sincerely
(Binay Kumar Sinha)
General Secretary
CC: Sh. Girish Chandra Arya, National Secretary, Incharge; Financial Sector
From GS
It is a happy augury that Shri. Binay Kumar Sinha who is our Central Committee Member of NOIP has been adorned with the highest position in BMS ie All India General Secretary. Our hearty congratulations to him. He is the second person to occupy this position from Lic (Noiw/Noip) after Shri. Udayrao Patwardhan who held this post for two consecutive terms totalling six years. This is the great contribution of Noiw/Noip to Central BMS. Shri. Girishchandra Arya, one of the all India Secretaries of BMS is the In Charge (เคช्เคฐเคญाเคฐी) for financial sector unions including Banks and Insurance. Shri. Ashok Joshi, our Resident Secretary is appointed as Deputy In Charge (เคธเคน เคช्เคฐเคญाเคฐी), insurance sector unions. We greet all the three persons and hope pensioners' core issues pending, would find early resolution.
Vilas Purkar,
General Secretary
Sunday, October 4, 2020
BMS New Team
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Final list of OBs from September 14th,2022 to 2025, elected in Surat conference- S/Shri/Smt
- President- T.C.Guneshkumar, Bengaluru
- Working President- Vilas Purkar, Nashik
- Vice presidents- 1) S.M.Wate, Nagpur- 2) Partha Chatterjee, Kolkata, 3) H S Ramesh, Hyderabad- 4)P.P.Phadke, Mumbai/Thane 5) V.B.Ghare, Nashik, 6) U.C.Mohanty, Bhubaneshwar, 7) Smt.SumitraMane, Mumbai/Thane, 8) S.K.Saini, Delhi/Jaipur & 9) Ashwani Kumar Srivastava, Gorakhpur
- General Secretary- Ashok J.Joshi, Pune
- Treasurer- R P Dhumane, Pune
- Asst Treasurer- Sushant Hadas, Pune
- Organising Secretaries- 1) D.R.Mapara, Mumbai/Thane, 2) Prabir Kumar Mazumder- Kolkata, 3)
- G.L.Bhat, Bengaluru & 4) Aravind Mittimani, Delhi.
- Secretaries- 1) M.A.Kulkarni, Mumbai/Thane, 2) Smt.Anagha Sant, Pune, 3) Santosh Bhat, Dharwad,4) Tarini Prasad Mohapatra, Cuttack, 5) Arup Dasgupta, Kolkata & 6) NCZ- Ashwani Kumar Sharma,Agra
- Internal Auditor- S.D.Jawalkar, Pune
- Special Invitees to the Secretariat/EC- 1) C.T.Joshi, Vijayapur (Belagavi Dn), 2) Ashok Gogte,Thane/Mumbai, 3) A.G.Bhat, Bengaluru, 4) Dipak Edlabadkar, Pune, 5) Gangadhar Mallashetty,Bengaluru 6) K.T.Hemanna, Mysuru, 7) Sanjay Ramdasi, Pune, 8) K.D.Deshpande, Nagpur, 9) BharatParameshwarwala, Surat 10) M.D.Umarani, Dharwad & 11) S.B.Sharan, Delhi
Saturday, October 3, 2020
BMS CONFERENCE VIDEO
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BMS Press Release
No. BMS/D-20/232/2020 Date: 03-10-2020
Press Release
Give all thrust to transformation of unorganised sector- Mohan Bhagavat
BMS should expand its work in unorganised sector and bring transformation in
the sector, said Mohan Bhagavat, the Sar Sanghchalak of RSS. He was
addressing the workers while inaugurating the virtual National conference of
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh. The conference was attended by 3000 delegates
representing nearly 6000 unions and 40 sector wise federations all over India.
BMS has to work for an exploitation free India. Everyone in the country should
get justice, he said. For the purpose new ways of trade union works according
to the changes in the time needs to be designed. He appreciated the BMS
principle of harmonising the interests of nation, industry and labour. BMS
should work in coordination with other friendly and committed organisations
working for the development of the marginalised sections of the society. We
should not deviate from our basic National ideology. We need to keep our
fundamentals intact and must have faith in the Indian values.
Organisation get strengthened by the commitment and sacrifice of workers.
Create a new culture in the labour sector and work for its development. He
emphasized the need to match steps with technology and be innovative
enough to make maximum out of it.
Inaugural session was presided over by CK Saji Narayanan. He said India set an
example of social capital during COVID time. BMS is working on its principle of
"sangharsh and samvad" to protect workers right and achieve welfare. Session
was anchored by Virjesh Upadhyay, general secretary, BMS. Sarsanghchalak
felicitated veteran activists shri kishan lal pathela and shri Amarnath Dogra.
(Virjesh Upadhyay)
General Secretay
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NATIONAL ORGANISATION OF INSURANCE PENSIONERS Regn No.PN 4769 (Regd under Indian T U Act, 1926) (Affiliated to Bharateeya Mazdoor Sangh) BM...
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1. National Organisation of Insurance Pensioners is the only pensioners' organisation registered under the Indian Trade Union Act, 1926....