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 atleast 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 ₹
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 ₹
30 Lakhs as AIC fees and make over to the host Circle.
Delegation fees
shall be ₹
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 from 1-1-2007 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