7th CPC – BPS appeals to the Prime Minister for acceptance of option 1 for Revision of pension
BHARAT PENSIONERS SAMAJ
No.SG/BPS/Parity/PM/03
Dated: 4-7-2016
Sh.Narendra Modi Ji
Hon’ble Prime Minister
Govt. of India
sub: Parity in Pension – Revision of pension based on first option recomended by VII CPC (Para 10.1.67(i) and accepted conditionally by the Govt.
Respected sir,
May i on behalf of Bharat Pensioners Samaj beseech a few minutes of your highly precious time for the favour of considering following submission on behalf of civil pensioners of the country.
1. Sir, there is no need of any committee to study feasibility of implementation of option 1 recommended by 7th CPC for the revision of pension of pre 01.01.2016 pensioners & accepted conditionally by the Govt. It can be smoothly implemented as all the required records are available. service records are of permanent nature & their non-availability if true, is a case of a gross irregularity worthy of being taken serious not of.
2. Departments professing non- availability of records are misguiding the govt to avoid their own accountability as you are insisting on fast compliance. option 1 contained in para 10.1.67
” 10.1.67 The Commission recommends the following pension formulation for civil employees including CAPF personnel, who have retired before 01.01.2016:
i) All the civilian personnel including CAPF who retired prior to 01.01.2016 (expected date of implementation of the Seventh CPC recommendations) shall first be fixed in the Pay Matrix being recommended by this Commission, on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at which they retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the matrix. This amount shall be raised, to arrive at the notional pay of the retiree, by adding the number of increments he/she had earned in that level while in service, at the rate of three percent. Fifty percent of the total amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension.
ii) The second calculation to be carried out is as follows. The pension, as had been fixed at the time of implementation of the VI CPC recommendations, shall be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate value for the revised pension.
iii) Pensioners may be given the option of choosing whichever formulation is beneficial to them.”
(i) of the pay commission relates to the scale of pay/pay band + grade pay in which a pensioner had retired and the stage of pay in that scale which is fully captured in PPOs issued at the time of retirement. On the recommendations of the V Central Pay commission full parity in pension was granted to all the pre-1986 retirees and their pension was revised by notional fixation of their pay as on 1.1.1986 & bringing them to the level of 4th CPC scales, Modified Parity had been granted to Pre-1996 & Pre-2006 pensioners as per recommendation of the Fifth and Sixth pay Commissions respectively and the revision of pension was done accordingly. All this could be done as records were available.
3. The issue of non-availability of service Records was never raised before at any stage either before or after the Fifth or sixth pay commission nor was it mentioned before the seventh pay commission by any of the Govt. Department also it was never mentioned by UOI in any of the legal proceedings so far.
Inadequate Fitment benefit recommended by 7th CPC and accepted by the Govt
4. In rare cases where service records may not be available, the same can be generated from the information available in PPOs as also with various departments and the pensioners themselves as they hold sufficient authentic information rather than passing over a key recommendation of 7th CPC impacting all pensioners very adversely.
5. Bharat pensioners samaj appeal to your goodself to kindly approve the first option of parity in pension without further delay and bestow succour to pensioners in the twilight of their lives.
Thanking you and with Warm regards
Your faithfully
S.C.Maheshwari
Secy.Genl.Bharat Pensioners Samaj
source:BPS
LALIT KRISHNA says
Such an absolute has already been committed during 6th pay commission where a person getting 15700 in pay scale 12000_16500 got a pension of 14960 while a person getting 14300 in the scale starting at 14300 got a pension of more than 22000/_
ASHOK says
BPS Secretary General hasn’t noted how faulty is the Option 1, otherwise he wouldn’t have advocated for the immediate implementation of this option.
With option 1 of Pension fixation, nearly every pensioner ‘A’ can find a colleague or a little junior ‘B’ who didn’t get the last promotion of “A’ and hence retired in a grade lower than ‘A’. Not being promoted, ‘B’ earns a large number of increments in his retirement grade, and invariably gets fixed at higher pension as compared to ‘A’, through option 1.
Because of junior drawing a higher pension, ‘A’ has to approach anomalies committee for stepping up his pension to that of ‘B’. ‘A’ who was ahead of ‘B’ in pension, has to beg for parity with ‘B’ now. Nearly every pensioner will be going through this harrowing experience due to faulty Option 1 ie OSOP. An option which creates only anomalies, needs to be revised to eliminate the root cause of these anomalies.
Upward mobility envisaged by present option 1 is certainly welcome. However stepping up as a solution for sorting out junior – senior anomalies has even been frowned upon by the supreme court. In view of this a revised option 1 which provides a balanced upward mobility for juniors as well as seniors shall be highly welcome.
Not very sure that the govt. is yet appreciating these concerns about eliminating the root cause of widespread anomalies. Cabinet has forwarded option 1 to a review committee for implementation feasibility. Hope, they don’t look at implementation feasibility only as problem of availability of old records, but come out with a satisfactory revision which doesn’t demean most of the pensioners by grading them to the level of their juniors.
k.m.ravindran says
Regarding first formulation for pension revision as recommended by 7thcpc:
The argument of the DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING that the first formulation is not feasible on the ground of non availability of records is beyond comprehension and is childish. The formulation needs the following information for the fixation of revised pension.
1. The scale of pay at which the employee retired.
2. The number of increments earned by him in that scale.
For this information, one need not go for the service records. Only pension records are needed. If the calculation sheet for arriving at the initial pension is available, so much better. Even without the calculation sheet the required information can be deduced from the information already available in the payment order. The following information is available in the pension payment order
1. Date of appointment
2. Date of retirement
3. Date of birth.
4. Amount of pension sanctioned in the first instant
5. Post held
From the above, the prevailing scale of pay for the post at the time of retirement could be known.
Length of service and whether the employ was eligible for full pension is known from the date of appointment and retirement.
The example given below illustrates this
A pensioner ‘x’ retired in 1995.he was sanctioned a pension of Rs 2232/-the post held by him is known and scale of pay prevailing for the post at that time was Rs 3700/-125/-4700-150/-5000/-
Initial pension sanctioned 2232/-
Average emoluments by working back 2232/-multiplied by 2=4464/-(as per the rule at that time 1995)
The next stage in the pay scale is 4575/-
Thus the employ was drawing a pay of 4575 /- at his retirement and had earned seven increments in the scale of pay at which he retired.
LALIT KRISHNA says
IAS Officers who have got all the benefits of 6th pay commission by getting the grade pay as 8700 got a jump in their pension of several thousand because of a deliberate mistake made in the pay band will always try to derail the 1st option they may not get much benefit from the 1st option and will always make some hurdle or the other in this option.Govt should therefore accept the 1st option for implementing and a committee may be formed to look into the cases where information may not be available
Ravindra Pratap says
Dear comrade Maheshwari Ji,
just a suggestion you may just ignore it if not relevant.
It is always a good idea to get our written messages and the language to get corrected by the exper. as this can reinforce one’s views and carry a positive impact and urgency to your opinion. Certainly a precise language is aesthetic and adds beauty to out day to day conversations..
a well wisher of yours.