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Meeting of All India Postal/RMS Pensioners Association Jharkhand concluded

 


CGHS issues were also discussed and it was said that the supply of Jan Aushadhi in CGHS should be stopped because Jan Aushadhi is not very effective

Ranchi: In the beginning, 2 minutes silence was observed to pay tribute to the demise of Comrade Sitaram Yechury and it was said that his demise has caused a great loss to the working class movement. His role in increasing the bonus ceiling of central employees from Rs. 2500 to Rs. 3500 can never be forgotten.

              State Secretary MZ Khan, while discussing the activities of the last week, said that on the call of NCCPA, a memorandum of 14-point demands was sent via email to the Hon'ble Prime Minister, Government of India, Finance Minister, Railway Minister, Communications Minister, Pension Minister and Cabinet Secretary on 5 September, which mainly included the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, implementation of the old pension scheme, restoration of the travel facility (concession) being given to senior citizens in railways before the Corona period, immediate release of 18 months' dearness allowance and dearness relief stopped by the government, reducing the period of commutation of pension from 15 years to 12 years, paying additional pension at the rate of 5% from the age of 65 years, making rules for Pensioners Association on the lines of Service Association, etc. Apart from this, a demand was also made to make a National Letigation Policy.I t should be implemented as per the recommendation of the 110th Parliamentary Standing Committee.

         Apart from MZ Khan, MN Singh, Subhash Gupta, BK Chaudhary, Gautam Vishwas, Sushila Kujur, Hasina Tigga, Jairam Prasad, SP Mandal, KD Rai Vyathit, Dev Charan Sahu addressed the gathering and said that we need to intensify our struggle. The facility we were getting in railway travel was snatched away during the Corona period and the dearness allowance of 18 months was stopped. We have to intensify the struggle for this.

       The State Secretary said during the discussion that the Association had appealed to the Central Information Commission on April 23 regarding providing wrong information by the Senior Postal Superintendent Dhanbad under the Right to Information Act in October 22 on the unnecessary stoppage of provisional pension, the hearing of which will be held on September 17 through video conferencing at the Deputy Commissioner's Office Ranchi. The State Secretary will present the Association's side before the Central Information Commission. Concern was expressed over the non-payment of the outstanding salary of the postman from January 1996 after a period of 6 years. This issue was also raised strongly in the CMC meeting held on 24 August in Bhopal.

            B Bara, Mary Bimla Toppo, Ruma Shah, Awadhesh Pathak, Rajendra Mahato, Triloki Nath Sahu, Dhaneshwar Goswami, Sukhdev Ram, Baldev Sahu, Manrakhan Mahato, RB Baitha, M Kandolna etc. were present on the occasion.

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