Charity begins at home, but not for LIC!

                   The Times of India dated 12^th March, 2015 carries a report that states that LIC of India would be investing Rs.1.5 lakh crores in the Indian Railways, over a period of five years. This initiative is note-worthy and appreciable.

                 However, the Corporation doesn’t think that it owes any responsibility towards its hard-working and sincere ex-employees; those who have resigned from its service. It has illegally refused to pay them the difference in wages and retirement benefits as arrears’ payments, arbitrarily.

                These payments, repudiated since 1997 by LIC, will be approximately equal to the amount that LIC has pledged to the Indian Railways.

               Thus we can safely state that charity begins at home, but not for LIC! Its largesse is for the outsiders, not for its insiders! Its step-motherly treatment towards its ex-employees is despicable. This step-mother feeds others' children and starves her own children. 

              

               Of course, what we are asking for is not charity, but our rightful dues.