DO
NOT CONFUSE CPC REVISION FORMULA WITH
CDA
PAY SCALES.
One veteran Telecom Trade
union leader has posted a matter in his blog on 26/2/2018.We are not interested
in polemics but we have to put the records straight to avoid any confusion
among the pensioners and leaders.
Point 1 : Let us understand that
there was no pay revision in 2000. It was only a conversion from CDA pattern to
IDA pattern. It was a legal requirement. A three judge division bench of the
Apex Court delivered a judgment on 3/5/1990 and based on the judgment, DPE
issued OM dated 12/6/1990.Para 3 of that OM states that “All appointments made
on or after 1/1/1989 in respect of all categories of employees of PSEs would be
deemed to have been governed by the IDA pay scales and IDA. Appropriate pay scales on the IDA patterns for
employees appointed on or after 1/1/1989 may be formulated by the PSEs
concerned, in consultation with the administrative ministry and referred to DPE
for approval. DPE vide its OM dated 10/8/2009 reiterated and emphasized that
appointments including promotion on or after 1/1/1989 in CDA scales of pay have
to be in IDA scales of pay.
Point 2 : Wage revision for
executives in BSNL in 2007 was on the basis of 2nd PRC report and for
non-executives, on the basis of bilateral agreement signed on 7/5/2010 and
order issued on the same date. But pension revision order was issued only on
15/3/2011. Infact DDG (Estt.) wrote a note to DoT finance stating that “revised
pay scales are only applicable to those who were still in service as on
1/1/2007.There is no impact on the pensioners who retired before 1/1/2007 on
account of revised pay scales. There is no scheme for BSNL with reference to
revision of IDA pensioners retired before 1/1/2007”. We have published enough
material date-wise in our journals about our efforts to get the pension
revision and we need not repeat it here.
Point 3 : Forum leaders met the then Secretary (T) Shri R.K.Garg
on 1/5/2015 and discussed 10 items and 78.2 was the 7th item. Breakthrough
for annulment of 60:40 did not happen on that day but break through was
achieved by us during our discussion on 24/3/2015 and 26/3/2015 (in
between on 25/3/2015 there was an internal discussion in DoT). On 26/3/2015
Secretary (T) and Member(F) assured that a revised cabinet note annulling
60:40 would be prepared and circulated within 15 days. Accordingly
Establishment section of DoT prepared the revised cabinet note annulling 60:40
on 30/3/2015 and sent it to DoT finance. This was possible because of
the direct intervention of Shri. Ananthkumar, Hon. Minister. It is also a fact
that this veteran trade union leader met Secretary (T) Shri R.K.Garg on
26/10/2015 and told that annulment of 60:40 has to be dealt separately and the
issue of extending the benefit of 78.2% IDA merger to BSNL pensioners retired
before 10/6/2013has to be delinked from it. We know success has many fathers.
Point 4 : We are aware that Service Unions/Associations sole objective is
to protect the interest of serving employees/officers. They do not have time to
go into deep study of pensioners’ problems and suggest a proper solution. It is
but natural. The same veteran leader gave an item for discussion in the
National Council for revision of medical allowance with pension (instead of
pay) plus every April DA and the management advised him to withdraw that item
because that is against the interest of pensioners (in this write-up of
26/2/2018 he has mentioned medical advance instead of medical allowance).To
settle 78.2% IDA merger for pensioners retired after 1/1/2007 one Association’s
GS suggested one day salary arrears for those who retired between 1/1/2007
& 9/6/2013 and GS of another one Union suggested last one month salary. We
did not have such confusions. That is why we suggested that let them
concentrate on pay revision seriously.
Point 5 : We are not against
struggles and we have conducted several struggles to achieve our demand. We
have even supported the recent united strike organized by all the
Unions/Associations.
Point 6 : The veteran leader and his association wanted pension revision
along with pay revision of BSNL employees. His successor in the union has
demanded delinking pension revision from BSNL pay revision. Now Pay revision is
not taking place and this leader wants pension revision at 15% of pay plus DA
which works out to 32.925% of basic pension (we are demanding 32% of basic
pension).From where this 15% theory comes? It is based on 3rd PRC report. That
report not only mentions 15% but also 10% & 5%.But it is all for serving
employees and not for pensioners. The dictum of Marxism says “Everything will
change except the law of change”. We stop with that. We are pretty well aware
that today’s pensioners were yesterday’s workers and that today’s workers are
tomorrow’s pensioners. Keeping in view the interest of yesterday’s workers and
today’s workers only we have demanded 7th CPC pension revision formula as
a permanent solution to pension revision. First let there be unity among
pensioners’ organizations in BSNL. We have made sincere efforts for that from
our side but there is no response from that side. Let us unite on common demand
of pensioners and move forward.
------ D Gopalakrishnan
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