Existence Certificate due August 2020.

RETIRED   LIC   CLASS   I   OFFICERS’   ASSOCIATION – CHENNAI  

 (Affiliated  to Federation of Retd. Class I Officers’  Associations)          

President G.N. Sridharan (9841072951)

Vice-Presidents M.Arunachalam (9840869758) P.A.Sivakumaran (9444079062)

Secretary V.R.Krishnan (9840932943)

Jt. Secretaries  S. Mythili (9840089067) M.D.Gunasekaran (9940311696)

Treasurer T.S.Asok Kumar (9444440319)

17-07-2020

Dear Friends,

We trust all of you are safe staying at home. It has been more than a month since we had any communication with you.   We have certain things to be conveyed to you.

Existence certificate of pensioners due in Aug 2020

All of us know that  submission of our Existence Certificate is due on 1^st August.  Having  anticipated the kind of issues that would be faced by our Pensioners in these lockdown times, our Federation  had written to the CO suggesting certain concessions. One suggestion was to extend the returnable time limit to say December 2020. Another was to say, LIC could take a clue out of the state of Tamil Nadu, where they had dispensed with this requirement altogether for this current year.

However, the Central Office by their circular dt. 15-07-2020, they have given some concessions which in effect is no concession at all, as the suggestion given involves physically going out to get the attestation, which in this Covid 19 restrictions is difficult.  There is no mention about the last date for such submission. Our Federation GS had written to the ED (P) about this and we are waiting for the outcome.

Representing individual cases

As true representatives of the retired LIC Class I officers, we have been taking up with the Central Office many individual cases and also following up with them for redressal.   We are glad to report to our members one such case which was solved on our intervention amicably.  Recently, on a representation made by us to the CO, at the behest of a DM level Officer of the Odisha Unit, who Retired in Dec 2019, it was gratifying to note that the CO responded quickly to sort out the issue, of the Cuttack Division holding back, a major part of the Retirement Benefits, merely on some grounds of likely Disciplinary Action. Our writing to the ED Personnel on this, pointing to the mental trauma,  the officer is undergoing every day, due to their less considerate act, was quickly followed up by the LIC CO, and the withheld Benefits were released immediately.  Our sincere thanks to the Central Office.

Working in unison with the in-service class I Federation

There was a communication from the Gen. Secretary of the in-service Class I Federation, Sri Raj Kumar, recently, asking for information about our various Units all over the Country, to be passed on to their members, so that both the organisation could work together, making it a bit easier for canvassing the membership of the retiring officers

Pension to resignees:

 A judgment delivered by the Kolkata HC on 17-06-2020 has come to our notice. This is a judgment which talks about Resignation by employees of Banks prior to Retirement. It seems to equate such Resignation with Voluntary Retirement. As of now eligibility for Pension arises in the case of Voluntary Retirees, but not necessarily in the case of Resignations. This point became relevant in LIC too, when recently, a second option for Pension was allowed, where those who had put in minimum qualifying service for Pension, had later resigned from service, and were not permitted the option for Pension.  Federation has to take it up with CO.

There are some enquiries if our Mediclaim covers the pensioners if affected by Covid 19. While we pray almighty that none of our pensioners should get affected, the reply is that we are covered. With Greetings

V R KRISHNAN            SECY.