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 General Secretary: Ashok J. Joshi
Mob No: 9880683639 Mob No: 9561084182 & 9945104570
Date: 11-09-2024
Cir No.25/2024
Latest positive developments regarding our pending issues at DFS- NOIP single man delegation meets
DFS officials today.
This is further to my report dtd.4-9-2024 about our visit to DFS office on 3rd instant. As a further follow
up I sent a mail to PS to Joint Secretary on 9-9-2024 requesting for an appointment with the JS. I tried to
contact on phone but was not connected due to busy lines since it is a landline number. I requested Shri.
Rajiv Kumar, our C C member from Delhi to visit the DFS office. Accordingly, he visited the office today
and contacted the Personal Secretary to the Joint Secretary through receptionist. PS informed that my
email has been forwarded to the Director Insurance and asked to meet her. On contacting, she
immediately asked to meet her. This was a pleasant surprise and on receiving phone call from Shri.Rajiv
ji, I requested him to meet as a single man delegation of NOIP and immediately mailed NOIP’s letter dtd
1-9-2024 addressed to the new Secretary, DFS. He got the print out there only and went to meet the
Director Smt.Mandakini Balodhi. Though she was in an important conference call, she entertained
Shri.Rajiv ji for a few minutes, read the letter, hinted certain developments and marked it to the Addl
Director, Insurance Smt. Neha Chauhan, who is actually dealing with our issues and asked to meet her
for detailed discussions.
Immediately thereafter Rajiv ji met Smt. Neha, Addl Director. He discussed all the issues contained in the
letter dtd. 1-9-2024 in detail and the discussion went on for more than half an hour. Under Secretary,
Shri. Abdul Gurfan also joined in the discussions. There were positive indications. Thus, discussion with
all the 3 important officers who are dealing with our issues went on for total 90 minutes. The take away
from the discussions is briefed here below-
➢ Our meeting with Dr. Prashant Kumar Goyal, Joint Secretary, on 25-4-2024 (discussed all the
issues contained in our letter to Secretary, DFS dtd 23-4-2024) was a break through in the
resolution of our issues. Because, soon after our said meeting he sought the notes on all issues
from the dept. All the above 3 officers are engaged in this exercise.
➢ Dr Goyal is said to be an upright and positive minded officer, who listens to the genuine
grievances and acts upon them with all seriousness. We got the same impression when we met
him for the first time on 25-4-2024.
➢ 4 issues which are supposed to have been recommended by LIC are under active consideration
by the ministry, viz 1) OMOP to left over ex servicemen and engineers, 2) Increased pension to
80+ pensioners, 3) 50% of last pay as pension if it is favourable to the retiree & 4) Double the
family pension up to 67 years of age of deceased pensioner.
➢ We got the hint that immediately an exclusive letter on a single issue of updation be sent to the
Secretary, DFS. We will be doing it in a day or two, though in every letter of ours this finds a first
preferred issue for resolution.
➢ Other issues contained in our letter dtd 1-9-2024 were also discussed in all details and we will
further follow up these issues.
➢ There is a positive atmosphere regarding our long pending issues in the DFS after taking over
charge as Joint Secretary by Dr. Prashant Kumar Goyal, who is genuinely interested to address
our issues.
We salute our C C Member Shri.Rajiv Kumar Sharmaji for his single man successful mission in the DFS
today. He was there from 3-30 pm to 6-30 pm.
We thank all the above 3 officials of DFS who were cordial and gave a patient hearing and we felt
reassured.
We assure our members that we continue to pursue all the other issues by making frequent visits to the
DFS.
NOIP Zindabad- BMS Zindabad
Encl: Our letters dtd 1-9-2024 and 23-4-2024.
General Secretary
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