NOIP Circular No 31

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. 

 President: T.C. Gunesh Kumar Working President: Vilas V. Purkar General Secretary: Ashok J. Joshi

 Mob No: 9880683639 Mob No: 9922166599 Mob No: 9561084182 & 9945104570 

Date: 13-10-2023

Cir No 31/2023

To all the members

NOIP delegation meets the LIC’s Chairperson

One more excellent activity done today by our most vibrant, proactive unit of Bhubaneshwar, under the 

leadership of Shri. U C Mohanty, Vice President, NOIP. Shri. S Mohanty, LIC’s Chairperson is in 

Bhubaneshwar to review the LIC’s business and to address the marketing officials of 2 Zones. Shri. U C 

Mohanty, VP, NOIP, used his good offices and managed to meet our Chairperson in the hotel May Fair

Lagoon, Bhubaneshwar at 9-30 am today, along with President and Joint Secretary of our Bhubaneshwar 

unit, S/Shri. Bikash Ranjan Ray and Bhakta Charan Dash respectively. The gist of talks is as follows-

• NOIP was the first union to get the opportunity to talk to the Chairperson.

• Shri. U C Mohanty handed over our letter dtd.5-10-2023 addressed to the Chairperson, 

requesting for appointment. The latter clarified that after the LIC became a Company, unions 

are not allowed to meet the Chairperson. Hence Shri. U C Mohanty, VP, NOIP requested for 

permission to discuss pensioners’ issues, his request was accepted.

• Regarding OMOP (one more pension option) to the left over Ex-Servicemen and directly 

recruited SEs, Chairperson informed that the DFS (Dept of Financial Services) has returned the 

file without approval and asked NOIP to take up the matter at DFS.

• Regarding other pension related issues, Chairperson informed that they are pending at DFS and 

that LIC has provided all the clarifications sought by the DFS.

• Shri. U C Mohanty gave the copy of the agreement reached in conciliation proceedings in the 

presence of the Dy Central Labour Commissioner (Central), Bhubaneshwar regarding the dispute 

raised by NOIP and Charter of Demands submitted by NOIP to LIC.

• The Chairperson handed over NOIP’s letter, to Shri. Satpal Bhanoo, MD and introduced Bhanooji

to the NOIP’s delegation.

• Regarding the GIS (Group Insurance Scheme) to all those retired prior to 1-4-2018, the 

Chairperson assured to review the position after his returning to the HQs and indicated that, the 

possibility of revised cut off date may be thought of. Our Bhubaneshwar unit’s President Shri. 

Bikash Ranjan Ray said that he is also affected, since he retired on 31-03-2018. We feel that, 

NOIP has been successful in achieving a major breakthrough regrading this long pending 

demand of ours. We will further follow up the issue with the chairperson for its logical 

conclusion.

Regarding consideration of ADO period of development officers, for the purpose of calculation

of gratuity and pension, the Chairperson said that, as per the appointment letter to ADOs, there

is a clear mention of apprentice period.

• After the detailed discussion with the Chairperson, our delegation felt that, more pressure has

to be exerted on the DFS through BMS, for the necessary resolution of issues referred to the DFS

by LIC.

NOIP assures that further follow up at the DFS through BMS would be accelerated to get the desired

results.

With greetings,

Yours Brotherly,

General Secretary