AIPRPA EMAILS TO SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF POSTS ON PENSION PAYMENT ON 1st APRIL 2015

AIPRPA EMAILS TO SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF POSTS ON PENSION PAYMENT ON 1st APRIL 2015

AIPRPA / 2 / 3 Dated 20^th March, 2015

To

The Secretary

Department of Posts

Government of India

Dak Bhawn     

New Delhi – 110001

Madam,

Sub: Pension payment for the month of March 2015 through POSB functioning under CBS – regarding.

This Association of Postal & RMS Pensioners draws your kind attention to the fact that last year on 1^st April, 2014 no payment of pension could be disbursed through POSB on the request of Infosys due to some technical problems in the CBS. In fact all SB transactions were suspended on that day. Many pensioners were made to return home empty handed without drawing their pension on that day.

This year 1^st April is followed by two holidays on 2^nd and 3^rd April for Mahavir jayanthi and Good Friday and therefore any recurrence of previous problem on 1^st April will cause heavy hardships on pensioners as they could not draw their pension until 4^th April, 2015.

This Association therefore seeks your kind intervention to prevent any such recurrence this year and if suspension of all SB transactions on 1^st April is unavoidable, then necessary instructions may please be issued to all concerned for effecting payment of pension on 31^st March, 2015 itself irrespective of the fact that no payment or pension payment is normally done on the closing day of the financial year.

Reply to our email on the nature of action contemplated will receive  our appreciation.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary

AIPRPA

AIPRPA WRITES TO DEPARTMENT OF PENSION & PENSIONERS WELFARE

AIPRPA / 1/ 3 / 2005 Dated 20^th March, 2015

To

The Deputy Secretary (PW)

Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare

Government of India

Lok Nayak Bhawan

Khan Market,

New Delhi – 110003

Sir,

Sub: Pre-retirement counselling workshop to be held on 31-03-2015.

Ref: Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare website notification.

Kindly refer to the Pre-retirement counselling workshop to be conducted by the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare on 31^st March, 2015, from 2.00 P.M to 5.00 P.M in the lecture room of India International Centre Annexe-40, Max Muller Marg, New Delhi – 110003.

The above information had been placed in the website of Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare prompty. However, many employees who are about to retire within the next six months could not attend as the above notification of the Pension & Pensioners Welfare Department was not at all circulated amongst the retiring employees by the Department of Posts and therefore no proper relief could be made available to the willing employees retiring shortly.

While the action of Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare is laudable, no purpose will be apparently served if prompt information does not  reach all concerned and all departments of central government do not take prompt action in circulating the message and facilitating relief in time to willing officials to attend the counselling workshop.

If the above workshop is intended only for employees retiring from the National Capital and not meant for employees of various departments working all over the country, then such an indication must have been made in the notification of the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare in its website.

This is for your kind information and for appropriate action.   

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary

All India Postal & RMS Pensioners Association