Nagercoil District held its district conference on 08-10-2024. District President Com Rajan Babu presided. More than 160 members attended. Circle Secretary Com Sundara Krishnan addressed the conference. The following Office bearers were unanimously elected. President : Com S Eugine, Secretary Com Kasi Treasurer Com Balan. The Outgoing Secretary Com A Chelliah has actively organised the conference .

08-10-2024 : Update on today's hearing at the High Court. The case, listed as items 44-46, was not heard due to time constraints, despite our lawyer's efforts to have it mentioned in the morning and their request to the bench to take it up in the afternoon. The matter reached at 4:15 pm, but due to the late hour, the court couldn't start the hearing.

The court has scheduled the next hearing for 21st November 2024.

Ernakulam is the biggest Dist Unit of our Association in Kerala. It has 2600 members and 10 Branches. Aluva is the biggest branch with 500+ members. For better effective functioning, Aluva branch is now bifurcated and new Branch at Angamaly is formed today with more than 200 members. Com R N Padanair, AGS and Com T P George, CS attended the formation meeting. Kochin Airport is at Angamaly.

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The Annual General Body Meeting of the Dharwad District was held on 30th September 2024 at Hubli. The well-attended meeting was addressed by Comrades V. Vara Prasad, General Secretary; P. Gangadhara Rao, Vice President; G. Babu, AGS; C.K. Hosamani, CHQ Organizing Secretary. Com. Jayashankar, Assistant Circle Secretary, Com Ch.Sivananad , District Office bearers Com N K Gandigwad, Com Vijaya Kumar Mandi (DS) Com M N Ghorpade, Com S L Pujar have shared the dais.

A meeting was held with the Hon'ble MP of Vijayawada, Sri Kesineni Sivanath (Chinni) in the chambers of MP' s office at Vijayawada on 23-9-2024.Comrades V Vara Prasad, General Secretary, C Bhaskara Rao, District Secretary of Vijayawada, J Narayanachari, AP Circle Treasurer, and G Siva Nageswara Rao, District Treasurer have met him.During the meeting, a cheque of Rs 1,00,000 from the funds of the CHQ account, as decided in the Patiala CWC meeting, was handed over, drawn in favor of the AP Chief Minister's Relief Fund, as a contribution towards relief efforts for flood victims affected by the flash floods in and around Vijayawada, followed by heavy rains on August 30th and 31st.

The MP was also informed about the Special Appeal made to members across India, to contribute generously to this cause, to be realised by end October'24 reflecting the commitment to supporting communities in need.

Sri Kesineni Sivanath appreciated the efforts, accepted the cheque, and thanked the association.

He also expressed his willingness to meet us for any help regarding pensioners' issues in the future.

Today it was listed as item no. 51 in court no 34 before the same division bench of Delhi HC to be heard at 1530 hours.

But since the court rose for the day at 1200 hours it was not taken up.

Our lawyer prayed for early hearing and hence the case is adjourned to 8/10/2024

In the Contempt Petition No. 300/2024, which was listed on 12-09-2024 before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench with Hon'ble Members Mrs. Harvinder Kaur Oberoi and Dr. Sumeet Jerath, Ms. Asmita Singh, representing the Applicants, requested an adjournment until after 23.09.2024, the next hearing date for related Writ Petitions in the High Court. Mr. Kaushik, representing DOT, sought closure of the contempt petitions. Ms. Singh argued that this request had been addressed previously with detailed orders from the Tribunal and noted the High Court's direction not to press the petitions at this time. The Tribunal, upon consideration, adjourned the matter to 18.10.2024.

Letter addressed to CGCA on delay of Pension Payments along with copy of resolution of CWC Patiala , copy to Secy , Dept of Pension. resolution-pension-payment.pdf

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Dear comrades

Bharat Pensioners' Samaj is an Umbrella Organisation of about 50+ Central and State Govt retired organisations/Associations having a membership of about 10 lakh retirees. Some time back BPS opened its membership for its affiliated organisations on zero subscription. The members will receive circulars and other material from BPS on regular basis.

Central Working Committee of AIBSNLPWA held at Patiala on 11 and 12 sep unanimously approved the proposal of BPS to allow our members to avail zero subscription membership of BPS.

The membership form is posted below. Members are requested to take a print out of the form, fill in their particulars and post the same on whatsapp number or email of BPS or send the same to BPS office by post

Circle / district Secretaries are requested to assist, monitor and encourage members to avail membership of BPS.

APPLICATION FORM format-of-application-form-for-zero-subscription-membership.pdf

2024 CWC PHOTOS

As you are aware, the matters were listed today (04-09-2024) as Items 54 to 56 before Court 34.
Due to another part-heard matter, our matters were not taken up and adjourned to 23.09.2024 at 3:30 pm. Since the proceedings in High Court on writ petition are continuing, hearing on Contempt petition in CAT is likely to be adjourned to a date later than 23-9-2024.

Pensioners' Patrika for September-October 2024 is posted from Chennai.

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From the Media reports UNIFIED PENSION SCHEME: MIXED RESPONSE BMS WELCOMES IT “Certainly, UPS is a better option than the existing National Pension Scheme (NPS) as it contains an assured 50% pension, dearness relief, family pension, increased government contribution from 14% to 18.5% and additional lump-sum payment on retirement,” Ravindra Himte, general secretary, BMS said in a statement issued on Sunday. “However, there are still some differences as compared to OPS, like UPS is a contributory pension scheme whereas an employee did not contribute anything under OPS and there is a feature of commutation of pension available in OPS which is not available in NPS or UPS,” Himte said. BMS is of the view that some other important features of UPS are still not clear like the ratio of lump-sum payment on exit; revision of pension on future pay commissions; continuation of tax benefits and increase in pension on completion of 80, 85, 90, 95 and 100 years. “For these clarifications, we have to wait till the publication of detailed notification of UPS,” Himte said, adding BMS will decide its further action in this regard only after a detailed study of the features of the UPS. The CITU, on the other hand, denounced the UPS as another dubious desperate effort to deceive the government employees of their due full right and urged for restoration of the old pension scheme (OPS). “The package offered by the government in the name of UPS reflects the same deceptive ploy of depriving the government employees of their legitimate dues on account of pension,” Tapan Sen, general secretary CITU said urging the government to restore the non-contributory defined assured Old Pension Scheme. The AITUC is of the view that UPS does not match the Old Pension Scheme which is basically non contributory in nature. “Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) decided by the Modi government for central government employees is nothing but an extension of the existing NPS as the government employees will have to continue to contribute 10% of their wages in UPS also,” Amarjeet Kaur, general secretary, AITUC said. “UPS will have a lot of aberrations once implemented. AITUC reiterates its stand to continue to fight for restoring back the non-contributory Old Pension Scheme,” Kaur added. MAHARASHTRA GOES TO ELECTIONS The Maharashtra Cabinet has approved the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) which was passed by the Union Cabinet on Saturday. The move comes on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the state and interacted with 'Lakhpati Didis' – women members of self-help groups who are earning Rs 1 lakh annually. JCM STAFF SIDE Staff Side in JCM wants the full pension be granted on completion of 20 years instead of 25 years as proposed in UPS. "The relaxation will do justice to those who join government service after attaining 35 years of age due to belated induction and make them eligible for enhanced coverage under UPS," said M Raghavaiah, leader (staff side) at the Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) for central government employees. The other demands include that a fourth of the monthly emoluments be credited to ensure that a reasonable lump sum payment is given to a retiring employee and that additional pensions be offered to pensioners who cross 80 years of age, as was the case under the Old Pension Scheme (OPS). Shiv Gopal Mishra, secretary of the JCM, had also urged the state governments to implement the scheme and extend the benefits to government teachers and municipal workers. The Union cabinet on Sunday gave its nod to the UPS, which will benefit 2.3 million government employees, offering an assured amount of half their average basic salary drawn over the 12 months preceding superannuation for those completing at least 25 years of service.

Today on 30th August celebration of 15th formation day of our Association and Distt conference of Jaipur TD Rajasthan circle was held. Com O P Maratha Com Rajkamal and Com S N Agarwal have been elected as Distt President . Secretary.and Treasurer respectively.

Today 30-08-2024 formation day and District conferance of Mysore held at RTTC,Mysore.comrades p.Gangadhara Rao,CHQ vice president,Savitha CHQ org secretary,Virupakshaiahcircle president,Jayashankar ,ACS and Com. S Ganeshan Circle Treasurer,Karnataka graced the occasion and spoke about our issues .com D Govinda Raju, Rajashekhara and A.O Aravindakshan were unanimously elected as president,Secretary and treasurer respectively.

Today on 25-8-2024 , celebration of Formation day and District Conference of Shivamogga, Karnataka Circle was held at Shimoga. Com. P Gangadhara Rao, Vice President, CHQ, Com.A Savitha, Organizing Secretary, CHQ and Com Jayashankar , ACS, Karnataka graced the occasion and explained about our ongoing issues. Com. S S Ritti , Com. B G Chandrasekharappa and Com D Govindappa have been unanimously elected as District President, Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

BHIMAVARAM JOINT GENERAL BODY MEETING OF AIBSNLPWA BHIMAVARAM - W. G. DT BRANCH INCONNECTION WITH 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS ON 25-08-2024.COM P. PULLARAO CWC MEMBER, SENIOR COM. G. SURYANARAYANA NFTE LEADER, COM K. PANDURANGARAO CEC MEMBER ADDRESSED THE MEETING AND EXPLAINED ABOUT 15TH ANNIVERSARY/ PENSION REVISION CASE

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