Dear Mangesh,
I am writing this out of deep anguish and acute frustration. When the British left India in 1947, the Indian politicians inherited their most lethal weapon, i.e. the divide and rule policy. We thought that our decade long wait for justice by way of pension upgradation finally ended when the GOI allegedly conveyed its "in principle" approval. But, alas it was not to be. By putting conditions such as revision once in ten years, excluding certain allowances from purview of pension and rationalisation of perks, GOI has driven a wedge between the serving and retired officers. Like the Kashmir issue and river water sharing disputes between two neighbouring states, the cleavage of interests between aforesaid classes defies any imminent solution.The result is that those of us who are on the wrong side of seventies will soon end up as items in the Obituary Columns of VITALINFO and/or Without Reserve and oblivion without realising our dream of drawing a decent pension that we deserve.
- B. Kamath, Retd. CGM
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In the case of NABARD pensioners GOI is behaving more heartlessly. Even the revision in family pension allowed to RBI pensioners is not allowed although the requirement of the GOI have been satisfied by the Bank, such as Board approval for statutorization of the Staff Rules which the GOI put as condition precedent. Even the Pension Regulations amendments as required by the GOI which have been approved by the NABARD Board and sent to the GOI and RBI are not approved till now. The plight of the pensioners who had retired prior to 1997 is much more pitiable. God knows when the GOI and its bureaucrats will wake up to the hardships of the pensioners of NABARD and extend relief.
M V Gupta. Principal Leegal Advisor(Retd)NABARD, Mumbai.
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