Central
Government Pensioners: Appeal for restoration of Option 1
recommended
by 7th Central Pay Commission for Revision of Pension of
Pre-2016
Pensioners
7th CPC : Appeal for restoration of
option 1 for Revision of Pension of Pre-2016
Pensioners
No. RSCWS/ HO / 7th CPC/2017-16
Dated: 23rd August, 2017
Shri Narindera Modi, Hon. Prime Minister India, 152, South
Block, New Delhi-110001
Shri Arun Jaitley, Hon.
Minister of Finance, Govt. of India, North Block, New Delhi-
110001
Shri Jitendra Singh, Hon. MOS Personnel, PG
& Pension, GOI, North Block, New Delhi-110001
Dear Sir,
Subject:
Appeal
for restoration of Option 1 recommended by 7th Central Pay
Commission
for Revision of Pension of Pre-2016 Pensioners - For Parity
of Pension
between Pre & Post-2016 Central Government
Pensioners
Reference:
i) DOP&PW OM No.38/37/2016-P&PW(A) dated 12th May,
2017 &
6th July, 2017 ii) Para 10.1.67 of 7th CPC Report for grant
of Parity of
Pension of Pre & Post Seventh CPC Pensioners
1. We draw your
kind attention to the sad plight of large majority of Central
Government
Pensioners – especially the Pre-2006 Pensioners and more so
the
Pre-1996 Pensioners, who will suffer a major financial loss
in fixation
of their Revised Pension on account of an unjust decision on
implementation of 7th CPC Report vide DOP&PW OM dated 12
-5-2017
cited above.
2. The Seventh Central Pay Commission (CPC) in Para
10.1.67 & 10.1.68 of its Report had for the first time
conceded the
long pending demand of the Central Government Pensioners for
Parity of
Pension between the Pre and Post CPC Pensioners and had
recommended the
following pension formulation for civil employees including
CAPF
personnel who had retired before 01.01.2016:
i) All
the Civilian personnel including CAPF who retired prior to
01.01.2016
(expected date of implementation of the Seventh CPC
recommendations)
shall first be fixed in the Pay Matrix being recommended by
this
Commission, on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at
which they
retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the
matrix. This
amount shall be raised, to arrive at the notional pay of the
retiree, by
adding the number of increments he/she had earned in that
level while
in service, at the rate of three percent. Fifty percent of
the total
amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension.
ii) The second
calculation to be carried out is as follows. The pension, as
had been
fixed at the time of implementation of the VI CPC
recommendations, shall
be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate value for
the revised
pension.
iii) Pensioners be given option of choosing whichever
formulation is beneficial to them.
3.
Option 1, cited above, was very much feasible to implement
as
recommended by 7th CPC for revision of Pension of old Pension
since
according to the survey conducted by the DOP&PW, it was
accepted
that the Service Records of over 80% of old Pensioners were
available,
while those of the others could be re-built as per procedure
prescribed
in the Rules and as was done after 5th & 6th CPC and as
per orders
of the Courts in numerous cases.
4. Regrettably, the Committee
formed by the Government, to consider the feasibility of
implementation
of Option 1 recommended by the Seventh CPC, while finding it
non-feasible, did not care for the interest of the more than
80% of the
Pensioners merely to save the Administration from the
botheration of
Re-building the Service Records of the rest less than 20%
Pensioners.
This was a great injustice since the 80% of the Pensioners
who’s Records
are available, shall suffer a loss of Pension just because
of missing
records of the rest 20%.
5. Instead, the Government accepted the
following formula vide OM Dated 12-5-2017, as recommended by
the
Committee on Feasibility of Option 1:
"the revised pension/family
pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016 in respect of all Central civil
pensioners/family pensioners, including CAPF's, who
retired/died prior
to 01.01.2016, may be revised by notionally fixing their pay
in the pay
matrix recommended by the 7th CPC in the level corresponding
to the pay
in the pay scale/pay band and grade pay at which they
retired/died. This
will be done by notional pay fixation under each intervening
Pay
Commission based on the Formula for revision of pay. While
fixing pay on
notional basis the pay fixation formulae approved by the
Government and
other relevant instructions on the subject in force at the
relevant
time shall be strictly followed. 50% of the notional pay as
on
01.01.2016 shall be the revised pension and 30% of this
notional pay
shall be the revised family pension w.e.f. 1.1.2016 as per
the first
Permutation."
6. The above said formula will very seriously and
adversely affect the Revised pension of a large majority of
the Pre-2016
Pensioners on account of following reasons:
a) "Parity of Pension" between Pre and
Post-2016 Pensioners - recommended by the Seventh CPC - would
be denied to the Pre-2016 Pensioners.
b)
In the process of notional pay fixation in successive Pay
Commissions,
there is a lot of dilution particularly for pensioners who
retired in
4th CPC period resulting in big financial loss.
c) Irrespective of
the date of retirement, Option 1 would have given the same
pension to
pre-2016 pensioners depending upon the number of increments
earned in
the last Level. By denying option 1 there will be sub-groups
even within
the homogenous group of pre-2016 pensioners.
d) None of the above
losses would occur to the Pre-2016 Pensioners if the Option
1
recommended by the 7th CPC is implemented and if the new
formula is
allowed as a 3rd Option in addition to Option 1 & 2
Recommended by
the 7th CPC in the interest of natural justice to all Pre-
2016
Pensioners.
2. It is, therefore, requested that the
Pension of Pre-2016 Pensioners be fixed at the highest of the
3 Options -
including first two Options as recommended by 7th CPC and
3rd Option as
accepted by the Government and Notified vide DOP&PW OM
Dated
12-5-2017.
Hoping for a favourable consideration & thanking you in
anticipation. With kind regards,
Yours faithfully,
S/d,
(Harchandan Singh)
Source : RSCWS
