DEAR ALL,
IT IS ONE YEAR SINCE MSM LEFT US.
It
is exactly a year ago on 8/7/2017 that Mr M Sreenivasa Murty left us
for his heavenly abode leaving not only his near and dear ones in his
family in grief, but also about 50000 LIC Pensioners grieving when he
was in the midst of handling the health issues of his better half
(besides his own health issues to which he gave lesser attention)
besides being intensively engaged to take a plunge in the final legal
battle in the Supreme Court. He was more preoccupied with his mission to
secure justice for the Pensioners in the last lap of the legal fight
about to commence at the Supreme Court. He literally sacrificed his life
and resources for the just cause of the pensioners. Just before his
demise he was vigorously preparing to finalise the draft of the SLP of
our Hyderabad Association to be filed in the Supreme Court, but destiny
did not allow him to continue in his mission. His unfortunate demise
dealt a severe blow to the fraternity of pensioners and created a
traumatic vacuum in our Association's effort to carry on with the legal
fight.
We
had to gradually come to terms with the shocking development and MSM's
soul guided us during the critical periods during the past one year of
his absence and enabled us to go through the legal process in the midst
of financial constraints faced by our Association to the extent possible
with the blessings and cooperation of pensioners from across the length
and breadth of the country. We are now on the path of the final
management of the struggle from 24/7/2018 when our SLPs are scheduled to
be taken up by the SC for admission and hearing.
As
far as the SLPs and rejoinders filed by the various petitioners are
concerned, I believe that all the petitioners/Petitioner Associations
would have highlighted and emphasized the strong grounds in favour of
the Pensioners. As far as the SLP and Rejoinder filed by our Hyderabad
Retired Class I Officers' Association are concerned, we are confident
that we have made them as comprehensive and sound as possible. We have
especially tried to highlight the apparent glaring errors in the DHC
judgment and also to effectively refute the unsustainable points made
in the counter affidavit filed by LIC.
While
on this, I may inform our pensioner friends, that, notwithstanding our
contest of the verdict of the Delhi High Court through our SLP, we have
made constant efforts to get LIC to comply with the direction of the
said High Court to LIC to provide partial relief by way of payment of
arrears of DR besides revising the DR as per modifications ordered in
the judgment and also upgradation of minimum pension ordered by the
Bench. But unfortunately, LIC has chosen not to comply with the Court
order although they had not challenged the High Court Order dated
27/4/2017 during the past more than one year and there being no stay of
the DHC judgment. I had even sent queries through an RTI application
made to LIC CO to which I received only an evasive reply. I have made an
appeal to the Appellate Authority (in LIC) on 21/6/2018.Going by my
experience with the RTI response of LIC in a number of cases , I am not
sure whether I shall get a positive response from the Appellate
Authority. If I do not receive a satisfactory reply to my Appeal, I
propose to make a final appeal to Central Information Commission.
Now,
coming to the final battle in the Supreme Court on our SLP, no doubt
our SLP and Rejoinder have enormous strength of grounds. But unless
these strong grounds are argued before the SC bench by a senior counsel
engaged by us, all our efforts cannot fructify easily. This is the area
where we are constrained financially. With MSM handling the case, we had
assured comfort both from the point of legal front and the financial
front besides the cooperation rendered by the pensioners from all over
the country. Now the situation has become different on the financial
front. We are in dire need of funds for engaging a senior counsel and
carrying on the legal fight ahead. It is now a 'Do or Die' situation we
are in, to put it in short.
I therefore appeal to all my pensioner friends to liberally contribute to
our legal fund so that we will be in a position to carry the legal
fight to a successful conclusion thereby benefiting the long-waiting
pensioners through upgradation of pension. Individual contributions at
the rate of at least Rs 5000/- will be greatly useful for our purpose
although we shall value contributions of lesser amounts from pensioner
friends with gratitude.
Nothing
can be a better tribute to the memory of MSM than achieving the desired
successful outcome in our case in Supreme Court for the benefit of all
generations of pensioners for which all of us need to contribute our
mite.
The particulars of our Association's Bank Account are mentioned below for your ready reference:
PARTICULARS FOR FUND TRANSFER
ACCOUNT NAME: RETIRED LIC CLASS I OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION, HYDERABAD
SB A/c No 053310100000317
Bank : ANDHRA BANK SAIFABAD BRANCH,HYDERABAD,
IFSC No ANDB0000533
Cheques
may be drawn in favour of "RETIRED LIC CLASS I OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION,
HYDERABAD" and sent to Treasurer at the following address:
Shri Y V Subba Rao,
Block No 4, Flat No G1, Diamond Estates,
Ram Murty Nagar,CBCID Colony,
Hyder Nagar,
Hyderabad 500072
Mob No 9491124614
With greetings,
C H Mahadevan
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