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10/01

HARD COPY DISPATCHED

03/01

During last 30 months, hundreds of our members and some leaders lost their lives due to covid pandemic and other reasons . Nation lost some of the brave soldiers including Chief of Defence Staff in helicopter crash in Tamilnadu. About 700 farmers in heroic struggle of an year, leaders from various fields like political, social, cultural, art etc have passed away during this period. Homage was paid to all of them.

1. ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW Out of 34 CHQ office bearers, 26 have attended in the meeting. Two have informed their inability to attend. 6 were absent. Out of 21 Circles ,14 Circle Secretaries were present and 7 CSs were absent including major Circles like PUNJAB and TELENGANA.

Organizational discipline and minimum courtesy demands intimation in advance or at least after the meeting about their inability to CHQ. Total PAID (as per CHQ quota received) LIFE MEMBERSHIP stood at 61,395 as on 22-12-2021.

During this pandemic, our Branches/Districts could add about 18,000 mostly through online enrollment. But compared to VRS retirees of nearly 79,000, this addition is not upto the expectation. Tamilnadu is leading in the FIRST PLACE with 14,300 LIFE MEMBERS followed by AP with 9,246 and KARNATAKA with 7919 in second and third places respectively. Now we expect further increase as physical meetings started for the last 3/4 months. PUNJAB was the first Circle to hold the Circle Conference physically during November 2021. Kerala Circle conference is scheduled to be held in March 2022. Other Circle/ District/ Branch conferences have to be held before September 2022, of course, keeping the CAUTION of new variant in mind and following the COVID protocols. Our office bearers at various levels should concentrate mostly to enroll VRS retirees to reach our goal of crossing ONE LAKH membership.

2. Next AIC It was decided to hold next ALL INDIA CONFERENCE by AP CIRCLE at VISAKHAPATNAM during NOVEMBER 2022, if everything goes well .

As per existing practice, all Districts have to send Rs 50 per member to CHQ as AIC fees.

Keeping the huge expenses involved in the costliest city and to provide the required minimum facilities like cot, hot water, etc. to the delegates , CHQ expects to collect a sum of Rs 30 Lakhs as AIC fees and make over to the host circle.

Delegation Fee shall be Rs 1000 per delegate.

No visitors shall be allowed.

Host Branch/Circle shall initiate the necessary process accordingly.

3. COURT CASES :

a). PENSION ANOMALY CASE. As per DOT order dt. 7-10-2021, almost all CCAs have started issuing the revision orders of live cases. Circles like Tamilnadu ,Kerala, Karnataka, AP,MH , Rajasthan, Odisha have given the details. But other Circles were silent.

All Circle Secretaries have been requested to ensure that all the beneficiaries are paid their arrears.

Utilize this opportunity to enroll new members and also convince them to pay donations as already notified by CHQ since it is purely our victory. Some of the beneficiaries have already paid the donation. One beneficiary by name Com Warrior from Palghat (Kerala) paid a donation of Rs. one lakh.
b) PENSION REVISION CASE. Next hearing of the case is on 10-2-2022 in PB CAT New Delhi. We are hoping that final hearing will take place.

c). 78.2% IDA...ARREARS CASE. 78.2 % merger arrears from1-1-2007 to 9-6-2013 still pending in CAT, Ernakulam, Kerala.

d) LPD case of pre 1-1-2006 retirees. Case pending in High Court , Ernakulam, Kerala. Both cases in Ernakulam are pending due to pandemic situation in Kerala

4. NEXT CWC MEETING. Next virtual CWC meeting shall be held in March/ April 2022.

P Gangadhara Rao

General Secretary

31/12

Sri B Kondaiah, retired in 2004, as Senior Section Supervisor in Vijayawada SSA, expired on 30-12-2021 during hospitalization as he has been suffering for few months with kidney problem. He is 77 years old. He had long, long association as a dynamic leader in NFTE in number of SSAs like Ongole, West Godavari, Adilabad, Krishna etc. where he had worked during his service. He had abundant knowledge in dealing with wide variety of staff problems and settled many such problems during his stint as District leader either thro deliberations or thro un-aviodable struggles at times. After retirement, he did not keep quiet. He started focusing on pensioners problems that has created a pensioners’ association in Vijayawada during 2006 even before formation of our AIBSNLPWA in 2009 which is merged with AIBSNLPWA after its formation. He was instrumental to bring all existing pensioners associations in various districts to merge with our association during initial period of formation days. Since then, he played a very important role in the activities of our Pensioners’ association in Vijayawada as well as in AP Circle. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. We all miss his incredible leadership hereafter. We pay our rich tributes to him and convey our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

29/12


VERY SAD AND SUDDEN DEMISE

Sri K Naga Murthy Retd SDE and CHQ Vice President AIBSNLPWA expired on 28-12-2021 due to massive cardiac arrest. It is a great loss to our Association.

He is very much normal till his last breath. He actively participated in virtual CWC meeting on 26-12-2021.

He is 66 years old. He was recruited as Technician in DOT and very active in NFTE. Subsequently became JTO through direct open competition. He worked in Maharastra Circle and got transferred to AP. He served as circle office bearer for several years and also served as Circle President of combined AP in SNEA .

Immediately after retirement in 2016 he joined our Association. He had contributed his might for the construction of Pensioners’ Bhavan, Anantapur. It is only in Anantapur , our district association has its own building in the entire country. He convinced all VRS -19 Executives in Anantapur District to join our Association.

He is our CHQ Vice President having been elected in Puri Conference in September 2018.

He is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.

CHQ conveys our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

P Gangadhara Rao GS

25/12

DEPARTMENT OF PENSION AND PENSIONERS' WELFARE HAS NOTIFIED CCS (PENSION) RULES 2021 .

All OMs since 1972 of 48 years amalgamated and all rules simplified and issued afresh. CLICK HERE FOR FILE

19/12

SALEM - EAST - DISTRICT CONFERENCE

TIRUNELVELI

TUMAKURU

KANNUR - KERALA

INDORE - MP


19/12

VISAKHAPATNAM

ELURU

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM

VIZIANAGARAM

ONGOLE

TANUKU

ANANTAPURAMU

NELLORE

VIJAYAWADA

KURNOOL

GUNTUR

MATHURA - UP

TRICHUR

CALICUT

KOTTAYAM

PALAKKAD

ERNAKULAM


AJMER

NAWANSHAHR-PB

THIRUVALLA

Saifabad- Telangana

GORAKHPUR

BHAVNAGAR


17/12


Two photos of members attended Palakkad (Palghat) District conference held on 16-12-2021

13/12

Com. S P Tripathi, DS Gwalior informs that the Guna Branch has been revived with following office-bearers:


District President: Shri N K Jain

District Secretary: Shri Prahlad Sharma

District Treasurer: Shri Ramesh Rathore.

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03/12

Attached is the list of additional names of Life Members received by CHQ after 31-3-2021 upto 1-12-2021.

additional-lm-list-as-on-1-12-2021.pdf

03/12

As some comrades want it we are giving the Ready Recknor hereunder again to find out the monetary benefit.

anomaly-case-ready-recknor.xlsx