EPS 95 HIGHER PENSION CASE NEXT HEARING DATE
On behalf of sixty-five lakhs of pensioners under Employees Pension Scheme 95 who are living hand to mouth with the lowest monthly pension they are getting at the existing precarious financial conditions we submit this Appeal and Plea to the Honorable chief Justice of India. At the same time we may kindly be excused and pardoned for approaching the Honorable chief Justice directly and encroaching upon the precious, valuable time of the Honorable chief Justice but we have no other option except to do so as we, Pensioners who are getting monthly pension below ₹1000/ are financially, economically very very poor and could not afford to meet legal expenses existing in the country. Also submit that at this juncture it is impossible for the Pensioners who are already crossed 75 years to go to New Delhi and present the case.
It is submitted that nearly fifty percent of pensioners are getting monthly pension below₹900/and forty percent are getting monthly pension below₹1700/ and the remaining ten percent are getting monthly pension above ₹1700/.
In this context it is submitted that the Honourable Supreme Court Bench headed by the then Honorable chief Justice of India Sri Ranjan Gogoi has ordered for payment of heigher Pension to all Pensioners irrespective of Establishment in a case R C Gupta and others under SLP(C) No 33032-33033 of 2015 but the Government of India and EPFO officials have searched and researched the judgement and filed writ petitions against the judgement.
It is further submitted that all Honorable High'Courts in the country have also pronounced judgements in favour of the Pensioners and directed EPFO officials to implement the judgement given in the RC Gupta and others case under SLP (C) No 33032-33033 but the Government and official of EPFO have searched and researched and filed writ petition against the judgements in the Honorable Supreme Court and the same pending for disposal and final judgement by the Honorable chief Justice of India.
It is fact that the same are pending for disposal and final judgement for the last two years. We may kindly be permitted to bring to the kind notice of the Honorable chief Justice of India that the lakhs of pensioners who are already crossed 75 years of age are ready to retire from life permanently and they may not be in a position to get the benefits of the judgement if pronounced at later stage.
Respected Honorable chief Justice , keeping in view of the sufferings, strugglings, precarious financial and economic conditions of the lakhs of pensioners we submitted Appeal and Plea to the Honorable chief Justice of India through representations which the Honorable Supreme Court has accepted as Public Interest Litigation and given Diary No29891/SCI/PIL(E)/2020 & No 65945/SCI/PIL(E)/2020 & 68016/SCI/PIL(E)/2020 by the Honorable Supreme Court.
On behalf of the sixty-five lakhs Pensioners in the country who are about to retire from life Humbly and respectfully request, appeal, urges the Honorable chief Justice of India that necessary instructions, directions, advises, guide lines may kindly be issued to the Officials of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation to immediately implement the order pronounced by the Honorable Supreme Court in judgement given in R C Gupta and others under SLP (C) No 33032-33033 and fixeup heigher Pension to all Pensioners irrespective of the Establishment they belong to.
We may kindly be permitted to bring to the kind notice of the Honorable chief Justice of India that no stay has been made against the judgement or verdict on the said SLP .We also respectfully pleads and urges the Honorable Supreme Court that for balancing the equities among the Pensioners and EPFO that the benefits of Employees Pension Scheme 95 may be provisionally conferred upon the Pensioners and all benefits remain alive or subsist only till a conclusive verdict against the Pensioners becomes and if any adversarial decision or verdict goes against the Pensioners the EPFO can realise excess payment, if any, EPFO can prosecute any Pensioner for default.
Also pleads and urges the Honorable chief Justice of India to fixeup time bound programme i.e stipulation of definate date for implementation to the officials of EPFO to implement the judgement Kindly save the lives of lakhs of pensioners under Employees Pension Scheme 95 other wise all Pensioners will retire from life without getting any benefit from the judgement pronounced in the RC Gupta and others under the said SLP With great hope and trust that we will get justice.
Submitted by
(P.Ravindranath)
President
To
The Honorable chief Justice of India, Supreme Court, New Delhi.
EPS95 PENSION FORMULA itself is questionable.From the date of its inception to till date the prices have gone astronomically high.As soon as retired the retiree has to clear his debts,to provide for his wards education, marriage and then to save for his, his wife's last day Wright's.Hence he cannot pull on with very meagre pension provided by the Government.Government should think pension calculation keeping in mind the lowest basic salary paid employees.After retirement howcan a retiree pay back the amount arises due to the higher wages . please ponder such difficulty of the EPS95 pensioners and raise the pension without demanding difference of amount paid as higher wages.
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DeleteWhen Govt not intend to provide good pension to retirees then why they are taking our money? Better to return back total contribution of Employer's side money with interest to us. Is it possible to run any life with only Rs 1600 to Rs 3000 and from 1995 now 26 years passed, but old rules / old rates like Street dig are continuing. After death our money also not refundable to family. Is this proper judgment with us ? When Givt giving good payment to all class of employees then why we are suffering ? EOFO also gas Crores of fund that is unaccountable. Govt actually don't want we survive after retirement. How many years it will take to solve ? Intentionally Govt neglecting our cases. Pension should be Rs. 15000/- for all. If necessary have to create fund immediately. Otherwise this Govt have to go. Other political parties also not supporting this case why ?
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