06 May, 2016 07:44 PM

7th CPC has accepted few of our demands : Bharat Pensioners Samaj

Secy Genl. BPS speech at Lumding on 2.4.2016 on 02.04.2016

Respected Guests, office bearers Govt pensioners welfare organization ,NFRPA, Brothers & Sisters,

I thank you all to have invited me and to be with you this day at Lumding.

Ladies & gentlemen we are all eagerly waiting for the notification implementing 7^th CPC recommendations. Presently Implementation cell of the Empowered Committee of Secretaries is examining the grievances of employees and the Pensioners. After giving final touch to report, Empowered Committee will send recommendations to PMO for its nod. Once PMO go through the report, it will be placed before the Cabinet for final approval. The whole process maystill take another about one months or so. We are getting information through print media that PMO has forwarded our representations/demands to the Empowered Committee of Secretaries with instructions to adjust genuine demands as far as possible.

Comrades, 7^th CPC invited & listened patiently to Bharat Pensioners Samaj more than once. I, as Secy Genl Bharat Pensioners Samaj, got the chance to interact with the comm.3 times..7^thCPC hasaccepted few of our demands in Principle.

So let us today examine what we asked for, what CPC recommended, and the Grievances as well as discrepancies we have referred to ECOS for redressal and the genuineness of our demands &grievances.

1.Stating that pension is always related to Salary, we represented to the pay commission to calculate need base minimum wage ensuring that wide gulf between haves & have lots is reasonably reduced. Pay Comm. after discussion did agree to calculate need base minimum wage for a family of 4 i.e. Husband wife & Two children. However, Pay Comm. without updating the criteria evolved by ILO in 1957 which in turn was based on age old Dr.Wallace Aykroyd formula for an average Indian family of four involved in moderate physical activity considering it as three consumption units -- husband: one unit, wife: 0.8 unit and two children below 14 yrs of age: 0.6 units each, calculated the minimum Salary.

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