#Pensioner

Did Government employees and their families express their anger through the EVM (Electronic Voting Machine) in the recently concluded Parliament election against NPS ?
C. Srikumar, a member of the Steering Committee of the Joint Forum for Restoration of Old Pension Scheme and also a Senior Leader of the Central Government Employees gave his response to this question.
The B J P got a major set back in Lok Sabha Polls marked by farmers protest which has resulted in loss of 38 seats in five states. The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Arjun Munda lost by a big margin in Jharkhand. In many states the BJP leaders had not been able to conduct their campaign due to farmers protest. The Government especially in the second tenure of its Governance have ignored the farmers, the workers including the Government employees and unemployed youth. During my visit to several states during this period I observed the anger of the Central Government employees and the unemployed youth especially the Trade Apprentices of the various Government Industry like Railway and Defence due to NPS and not providing employment in Government. The Government employees including Group A officers and their family members are very much annoyed and upset with the New Pension Scheme since it takes away their pension right under the Old Pension Scheme and also creating an uncertain old age life, as immediately after their retirement the monthly pension is scaled down to Rs. 2000 to Rs.4000/- per month without any composition for price rise which is available in the Old Pension Scheme with 50% of the Last Basic Pay as Guaranteed Pension, to draw the attention of the Government the Central Government employees organizations including A I D E F and J F R O P S have staged many protest demonstrations including a massive rally of more than 5 Lakh State Government & Central Government employees and their family members at Ram Lila Maidan in Delhi. Even a decision for in definite strike was also taken by the J F R O P S which was subsequently deferred due to Parliament elections.
However, the anger amongst the younger generation of Central Government and State Government employees were visible through out the country. The BJP Government appointed a High Level Committee under the Finance Secretary only with the Terms of Reference to improve the NPS which was not the demand of the employees organizations. The other major issue which affected the workers is the passing of the New Labour Code by abolishing the various existing Labour Laws. The Congress party in its manifesto has given a commitment that if their party is elected to power then 30 Lakh post lying vacant in the Central Government Department and Organizations will be filled up. They also assured that they will abolish the Agni Veer System of recruitment in the Armed Forces. Many Opposition partIes including the left parties have also given similar assurance in their manifesto and also in their election campaigning.
No doubt this has attracted the unemployed youth of the Country. As far as NPS is concerned it played a vital role in deciding the votes of the State Government and Central Government employees which is evident from the results of postal ballots in many places. After the formation of a new Government they will once again approach and insists the Government that when the Judges, Armed forces are exempted from NPS and all the elected representatives to the Legislature and Parliament are getting Guaranteed Pension without any contribution, what is the justification for the Government to deny the benefit of Old Pension Scheme to its own employees. Even at the Group A officers level who joined in service in the NPS after 1st of January 2004 are also at the level of Joint secretaries and Additional Secretaries in the various department of the Government. How far they will be able to influence the Government with regard to the Policy decision of the Government in going back to the Old Pension Scheme since they are also equally affected. In any case, the fact remains that the Government employees are a dissatisfied a lot not only because of NPS but because of so many other issue such as non payment of 18 months DA arrears which was frozen during Covid-19 pandemic, non implementation of various Court Judgement given in favour of the employees including notional increment for the purpose of Pension and other benefits to employees who retire during the month of June & December, non functioning of the JCM I R mechanism.
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[@APRajan-cv1vw]

Maam...You are absolutely right in the cause of BJP's setback in this election..This setback is mainly due to the CURSE of EPF95 Pensioners.
The minimum pension of EPF95 is Rs.1000^= Some of the Pensioners get below Rs.1000/=.Many pensioners have died due to poverty with such a meagre pension . snd hence their CURSE.
MODI's GUARANTEE HAS FAILED MISERABLY.
Still there is time to save these poor Pensioners or else the consequences could be WORSE..

[@sivaramakrishna]

Yrs eps 95 will be highligted 😊